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

To overcome fear one must have lived with fear.

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

Why do we bear arms at the slightest miscommunication? Our relationship with our ego craves always to be right.

To live only in today or the past leaves no room for tomorrow.

Aikido is a means of self-correction of Intention through reflection.

To seek the path of ego within the martial arts will seed jealousy and corruption.

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 understand compassion one must first live compassionately.

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.