"You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is goo…

- George Ohsawa

Some people think that macrobiotic philosophy is no more than the teaching of a diet - the eating of brown rice, carrots, and gomashio (sesame salt),…

- George Ohsawa

Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy.

- George Ohsawa

Only those who see that the two sides of all phenomena, visible and invisible, are front and back or beginning and end of one reality can embrace any…

- George Ohsawa

Macrobiotic living is the process of changing ourselves so that we can eat anything we like without fear of becoming ill; it enables us to live a joy…

- George Ohsawa

Chewing transforms even toxins into nutritive substances.

- George Ohsawa

The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you st…

- George Ohsawa

No more will, no more soul, no more life!

- George Ohsawa

He who thinks that macrobiotic living is merely a cure for physical ailments, however, can never really be helped. It is not a new medicine to stop p…

- George Ohsawa