In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living.… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“Accept everything just the way it is. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake. Do not, under any circumstances, depend on… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“1. Accept everything just the way it is. 2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake. 3. Do not, under any… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“The principle of my school is quite different. In the other schools, techniques are displayed like merchandise adorned with colors and flowers,… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists.… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“The heart of Stepping on the Sword, something used principally in the martial arts, is that even with bows and firearms, you must act… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“When you and your opponent are fighting and nothing is going right, nor is there progress, be of a mind to throw off your… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
