"The techniques of Aikido change constantly; every encounter is unique, and the appropriate response should emerge naturally. Today's techniques will be different tomorrow. Do not get caught up with the form and appearance of a challenge. Aikido has no form - it is the study of the spirit"

-- Morihei Ueshiba

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“I hear footsteps and Four's hands wrap around my wrists. I let him pry my hands from my eyes. He encloses one of my hands perfectly between two of his. The warmth of his skin overwhelms the ache in my fingers from holding the bars. "You all right?" he asks, pressing our hands together. "Yeah." He starts to laugh.”
“I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.”
“When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.”

Source : Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.10, Harper Collins
“Life is made up of marble and mud.”
“Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.”
“I just turn the record in. I don't think about the commercialism of it, but rather what's getting me off. That's why I stay in this business, because I can still afford to do exactly what I want to do.”
“And I know Iâ€™ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. â€œAs the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,â€ the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,â€ let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.â€ â€œTodd?â€ Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. â€œIâ€™m sorry,â€ I whisper to her. â€œIâ€™m so sorry.â€ Weâ€™ve run right into a trap. Weâ€™ve run right off the end of the world. â€œWelcome,â€ says the Mayor,â€ to the New Prentisstown.”
“Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (2007). “Rise and Fall of Society”, p.150, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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