The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.
—Anne Michaels
The good student works harder than expected.
Spirit is the source of miracles.
The enemy in this game is never the Other but our own petty mindedness – our refusal to open up and admit, let alone see, the bigger picture.
I like to define mindfulness as the energy that helps us to be here 100 percent.
—Thich Nhat Hanh
I like to define Spirit as the energy that redefines 100%.
When spirit rises you realise you're far more than you think.
the path is circuitous—
endlessly tramping circles
each pass a little deeper
than the one before
This age of distraction & excess.
Steal Softly Thru Snow
The major problem facing the individual today is how to slow down and reduce. Do less, think less, consume less.
It's the same problem facing the species: we desperately need to reduce, both our consumption & our numbers, otherwise it's curtains…
Taiji is about waking up the Spirit and getting back to a more natural state, and that state is always more wild & more crazy than the way we've become from living in society – conforming and consuming.
露見枝條
隱藏本根
Branches exposed
Roots hidden
—The Seal of the Unity of the Three, trans. Fabrizio Pregadio, Golden Elixir Press, 2011
Passion is falling in love afresh each time. This is the attitude we need to approach the work. After each practice session our love is confirmed & renewed.
God’s Spirit is life’s vibrating, vitalizing field of energy: we are in God, and God is in us.
—Jürgen Moltmann
Nowadays longevity is as much due to reduced intensity of living as it is to improved medicine.
Each time we are with the teacher he shows us a new aspect of energy – a new way of working, of becoming. It's our job to then go home, come to our own understanding through practice, and claim it as our own.
An Inner Silence bristling with Listening. This is how we connect to Life.
Life Force
Life Principle
Anima/Animus
Élan Vital
Spirit of Vitality
Vital Essence
Prana
Āyus
Qi
Each of us is like a computer. Our body is the hardware, the mind is the software, and the spirit is the electricity.
