"The primary necessity is to recover our natural selves and bodies. We live in changing seasons, in heat and cold, on clear days and rainy days. To truly experience nature is also to be our natural selves and know joy and anger, happiness and sorrow. When we resist or ignore nature, we find ourselves unable to truly experience the range of human emotions. This is part of the depersonalization and dehumanization that affects us all. We must return to nature, accepting it as it comes, and recover our natural selves and bodies."
-Kisshomaru Ueshiba, The Spirit of Aikido
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