As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with and criticizing others will weaken and defeat you.
One does not need buildings, money, power or status to practice the art of peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
The divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The divine likes to be out in the open. It is right here within this very body. Each of us is a miniature universe, a living shrine.
-- Morihei Ueshiba O-Sensei, founder of Aikido (pictured above)
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Words to live by, to be sure.
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