As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.

Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.

…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others. It was thought more important to look healthy than to be healthy, and more important to seem bold and daring than to be so. This view of morality, since it is physiologically based on the special vanity peculiar to men, is perhaps the supreme male view of morality.

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.