"Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind."

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Source : Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown (2012). “Geisha Of Gion: The True Story Of Japan's Foremost Geisha”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

Mineko Iwasaki

#Spiritual Quotes #Practice Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way.”

Source : John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Harbour”, p.164, Hachette UK
“I hope that in its richness, as well as in its incompleteness, Gyn/Ecology will continue to be a Labrys enabling women to learn from our mistakes and our successes, and cast our Lives as far as we can go, Now, in the Be-Dazzling Nineties.”
“We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”
“Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 30, 2014
“If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.”
“In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.”
“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 05, 2014
“I don't want people to think about one common thing. Coda is non-discursive, just like choreography for the stage. So each audience member's thoughts about it, or better yet, their feelings, will be different. Moreover, images contain so much information that one can see things that the next person won't notice. As a result, people will surely think about Coda in dissimilar ways.”

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