To understand compassion one must first live compassionately.

Respect should always be offered to the opponent first. Often this can lead an attitude of dis-harmony into a peaceful resolution.

Training in a martial art has no end, just a beginning.

Within the martial arts, while competition in the form of sport exists, the art of Budo, a way of love may never be truly understood.

Those who only seek destruction within the martial arts are disconnected to themselves and all fragile life.

Why do we study a lifetime of fighting within the martial arts? To seek a peaceful path to enlightenment.

Martial arts should not be a platform for displaying the ego. Methods that do can lead one down a wrong path.

To care for others is the real martial art. To not care shows a disregard for yourself and the universe.

We are all of this earth, do not fight or lay greed. The earth is plentiful if we can all learn to share it.

To overcome fear one must have lived with fear.