Shinken Quotes & Sayings

When I thought of the ways I preferred to die, I wanted to be a hundred years old and surrounded by generations of adoring descendants. Though a hair dryer and an ill-timed fall into a tub was far more likely. I never considered deer or drunk drivers. — Molly Harper

To reach an understanding of Aikido as love, you have to be shinken [completely focused; as if wielding a real sword]. You need to commit yourself, body and soul. Without a wholehearted focus, you won;t be able to effectively love yourself or someone else. You can't half-heartedly achieve a true love. It has to be shinken. It must be real. — Linda Holiday

To want someone so desperately that you would sacrifice anything, actual human lives, possibly your own soul, to have it. — Rachel Van Dyken

see you two working so well together," Belmore — R.G. Winter

I vibrate with cheer and delight in my cells. I let beauty heal me! — Amy Leigh Mercree

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner. — Laurell K. Hamilton