You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

- Pema Chödrön

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Yamas:

Non-harming

Truthfulness

Non-stealing

Remembering the higher reality

Non-Possessiveness

Niyamas:

Purifying your body and mind

Cultivating an attitude of contentment

Traning your senses

Inner exploration

Letting go in to your spiritual source.

お箸とか、お椀とか。メイクブラシとか、万年筆とか。

人が道具を創る。道具が人を創る。

そういう理由で、なるべく良いもの使いたい。

It's not a taste with impact, but a gentle taste that is real.

味わい淡に真楽あり。

（こんぶ土井四代目 土居純一氏）

I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away.

-Mahatma Gandhi

根のごとく、枝葉が出る。根が大事。根を育てる

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

-Mahatma Gandhi.

人間にとってもっとも大切な光、人間の心に懐かしさを知らせてくれる影、この光と影には、自然に人の心を美しく豊かにしてくれるものがあるような気がする。

光と影を愛し、自分の心の中に生まれた夢を光と影で描いてゆくことが、みんなの心の中に通じるファンタジーをつくることになると思っている。”

藤城清治 著「お見舞いにきたぞうさん」あとがきより