Morihei Ueshiba Quotes

Clarity of mind, body and spirit is the key to creativity.

When I feel connected, mind-body and spirit, I feel centered.

Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.

It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of understanding the subtle workings of the mind. As you understand those workings of the mind a great awareness arises in you, which is not of the mind. That awareness arises in your being, in your soul, in your consciousness.

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.

Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves; we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.

Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.

The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.

The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly to your experience; let it not imprison you; experience becomes a dead weight in the living and flowing, riverlike consciousness.

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

When mind and heart come together, mind serves consciousness instead of serving itself.

The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.

Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.

Meditation is nothing but putting the mind aside, putting the mind out of the way, and bringing a witnessing which is always there but hidden underneath the mind. This witnessing will reach to your center, and once you have become enlightened, then there is no problem. Then bring the mind in tune with you

We should be in harmony with our own consciousness; our mind, body, and soul should be one in interest and in purpose. And in that unified condition, we can actually express that natural innate love that we have found in our own life in everything we do in the world.

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.