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Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either.

— Michio Kushi Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994)

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Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time.

Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994)

If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.

Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994)

When you are angry, it means you, yourself are unhappy. Even if you are wronged, you are still making yourself unhappy if you feel anger.

Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994)

If you think of harming someone, this is the same as actually doing it, in terms of the spiritual world, since the spiritual world is vibrational, which includes thinking.

Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994)

See the person's eating and cooking, and then you can judge his or her spirituality.

Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994)

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