Takemusu Aiki Quotes & Sayings

What can I say to convince you
the Houses of Parliament dissolve
night after night to become
the fluid dream of the Thames?
I will not return to a universe
of objects that don't know each other,
as if islands were not the lost children
of one great continent. The world
is flux, and light becomes what it touches. — Lisel Mueller

World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. — Stephen Jay Gould

Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music. — Lisa Marie Presley

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go. — Arthur Rubinstein

You didn't just show up on planet Earth by accident.. You were handpicked by Almighty God. — Joel Osteen

I have been given many teachings by Sarutahiko-no-O-Kami. OKami told me, 'By the work of Takehaya Susanowo no Mikoto, you will worship the Ame no Murakumo KuKamisamuhara Ryu O (Kami of Takemusu) and build an Aiki shrine and dojo.' Then I built the Aiki shrine and dojo in Iwama, Ibaragi prefecture in 1940. — Morihei Ueshiba

Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it. — William C. Brown

Unless you are oblivious to your own suffering, you have no right to be oblivious to other people's suffering. — Jaggi Vasudev

Once upon a time there was a person whose life was so good there was no story to tell about it. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Anyway, she was now the sort of girl who shot people. Useful to know. — Neal Stephenson