Extract from The Way of Aikido, by George Leonard:
What are we doing in the dojo? We might have first come to aikido for self-defense or fitness or balance. But after a few months these considerations fade away. We are doing it, with all that it entails - strenuous exertion, pain, close calls, occasional injury, along with years and years of what ( Read more... )

"Treat people as they are, and they will remain that way. Treat them as they are already what they can be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming." -- Goethe

"You know what everyone's greatest fear is? It is that all the dreams we have, all the crazy ideas and aspirations, all the impossible romantic longings and utopian visions can come true, that the world can grant us our wishes... No weight could be harder to bear than the possibility that everything we want is possible. If that is true, then ( Read more... )

"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey
if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and
the harms it would cause if improperly administered." -Lyndon B. Johnson,
36th US president (1908-1973)

(spotted in aiwendel's journal)

Instructions: Go to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 and look through random quotations until you find 5 that you think reflect who you are or what you believe. Then post them in your journal ( Read more... )

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (USA Founding Father ( Read more... )

http://emperor.livejournal.com/298605.html

See also:
http://senji.livejournal.com/325160.html

"Conquer the angry man by love.
Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness.
Conquer the miser with generosity.
Conquer the liar with truth."

(yoinked from aiwendel's journal - she's been posting a few choice bits of Buddhism lately)