“Just as every vessel is not the same, therefore, enlightenment will also vary according to your patience, heart, mind, and body whenever it comes to endure challenges in life.”

“Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.”

“Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask – you are exhibiting your past life on your body.”

“Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.”

“Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.”

“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”

“Ikenobo Sen'o remarked on another occasion (this too is in his Sayings) that "the mountains and strands should appear in their own forms". Bringing a new spirit into his school of flower arranging, therefore, he found "flowers" in broken vessels and withered branches, and in them too the enlightenment that comes from flowers. "The ancients arranged flowers and pursued enlightenment." Here we see awakening to the heart of the Japanese spirit, under the influence of Zen. And in it too, perhaps, is the heart of a man living in the devastation of long civil wars.”

“God does not judge you according to your bodies and appearances, but He looks into your hearts and observes your deeds.”

“My soul
Shall bear that also; for, by practice taught,
I have learned patience, having much endured.”

“My soul
Shall bear that also; for, by practice taught,
I have learned patience, having much endured.”