Where opinions abound you'll find little truth.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

—The Rambam

Develop an intimate feeling for sacrum as centre of the structural body. Both keystone of the lower body and foundation stone of the upper body. Then the mind will naturally settle in the dantian.

Beginning is easy
Continuing is hard

A student that doesn't practice (study) is not really a student, they're a tourist.

Vows are a safeguard of continence.

Technology, especially digital technology (our current obsession), robs us of soul.

Practice: repeating the same, drills deeper

When I picture a perfect reader, I always picture a monster of courage and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born adventurer and discoverer.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Write Such Good Books, Section 3

So deep you disappear

Spirit is the energy of danger. It appears when we're in danger, and hopefully saves our lives when in danger. Spirit is always with the underdog – with the molecular rather than the molar, with the weak rather than the strong. Hence the beatitudes.

Practice: repeating the same generates difference

Life is a long slow process of learning to pray.

Happiness is not getting what you desire but freedom from desire.

Learning to be open in the open.
This is prayer.

At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. But our nature and habit then draw a veil over our perception, and we return to a darkness almost as dense as before. We are like those who, though beholding frequent flashes of lightning, still find themselves in the thickest darkness of the night.

—Maimonides

Social media is the externalization of ego.

Life evolves
(Make sure you do)

perseverence    ὑπομονή    hupomoné

Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

—James 1:4

Live in obscurity

When I told my teacher about Nitsan's obsession with the Root, ever critical he said: You must get your inspiration from the stars, not the Earth.   True enough, but unless you have a damn good root (and everything that goes with it: selflessness, ruthlessness, probity, clarity) you'll never reach the stars.

Anything worth knowing is impossible to tell.
We must find out for ourselves.

rewild
remystify
resacralize
remythologize

Inside our heads, the decibel levels are off the charts. That’s the thing about lives of quiet desperation. They’re only quiet on the outside.

—Eric Weiner

When I told a new student that the most important word in Taiji is  LISTENING  he pointed out that it's also the most important word in life.