There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.
Yamamoto TsunetomoEveryone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.
Yamamoto TsunetomoIn the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo