If you study the martial arts with aggression and malice this will eventually bring you to view the world from a fearful place.

To view one as an enemy is to see ourselves without having any wrong.

To understand Aikido’s many layers-consistency is the “ki”

There are constant messages guiding our paths through life. To hear we must stop our busy lives a moment and listen.

Martial Arts should not focus entirely on the destruction of an enemy but in ways it can strive to embrace the enemy.

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 train a life time acquiring skills of self-defence only to seek retribution in the destruction of others becomes a wasted journey; a path of self-destruction.

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.

After a life time study in martial arts you may come to the realization that fighting or not fighting, is really the same.

The enlightened martial artist sees no enemy but the one within.