Kamae Quotes & Sayings

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope. — James MacDonald

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality. — Robert M. Pirsig

Then the young men, streaming blood on their painted chests and backs, would stand and begin their dancing and chanting, leaning back from or toward the sacred tree so that their bodies were often suspended totally by the rawhide and horn under their muscles. And always they stared at the sun as they danced and chanted. Sometimes they danced the full two days. More often, they would dance and leap until the pain caused them to fall unconscious or - if they were lucky and Wakan Tanka smiled on them - until the rawhide and horn ripped through their powerful chest or back muscles and freed them. — Dan Simmons

Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney. — Jake Shimabukuro

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. — Pierre Corneille

Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand. — Robert Aickman

You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries. — Sam Altman

Live your life, keep hope alive, tomorrow will be better and peace will there. — Debasish Mridha

Next morning I showed her brain scan to the juniors at — Henry Marsh

You are not punching them; it is your going into kamae that
punches them. — Masaaki Hatsumi

Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves. — Jim Morrison

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. — Ronnie Shakes

when you have a lovely but bitter past with someone and happens to meet them. Keep it light. Keep it short. Most of all, keep them, away. — Adhitya Mulya

When properly applied, the kamae reflects the ninja's heart.
This means that our physical nature conforms to our intentions,
and there is no division between our interior and exterior
aspects. This state of integrated mind and body action is
totally natural, and can be observed readily in the movements
of animals as they interact with their environment. Only human
beings seem to develop the need to be trained in natural body
motion. — Masaaki Hatsumi