There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

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.

We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I suppose, is how human beings are made.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.