Quotes
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Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
Lao-Tzu
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But if you hide the world in the world, so there is no place for anything to escape to, this is an arrangement, the vastest arrangement, that can sustain all things.
Chuang-Tzu
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Let us fortify ourselves against weakness and learn to be self reliant, without ever a moment's lapse. Then our resolution will become the very air we breathe, the world we live in; then we will be as happy as a fish in crystal waters. This is the joy which lasts, that we can carry with us to the end of our days.
Professor Cheng Man-Ch'ing
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Shine bright like gold, don't miss a word. Relaxation is at the heart of the practice of T'ai Chi Chu'an. It's not learning a myriad of techniques but releasing the blocks in the body that one is capable of developing rooting and opening up to the flow of the Ch'i. Thus, in Taoism, the philosophy that underlies our practice, is not striving to be better, but letting go of desires, ambitions and tensions, that we reach harmony with the Tao and our true nature is revealed to us. If you were really relaxed, what would you do? who would you be?
Carol Yamasaki
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What I mean by love is not an emotion. It is a state of being... It is a sense of oneness with all that is. The experience of love arises when we surrender our separateness. You don't love another, you are another. There is no fear because there is no separation.
Stephen Levine
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If you don't use the part of the mind that is the intuitive heart-mind, if you don't cultivate it and use it, you're just left in a reactive kind of puppetry. It's only when the mind, the awareness, draws back that you have a sense of the gestalt – you see the whole thing, and then there is nothing in you pushing it away or grabbing at it.
Ram Dass
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Yielding will overcome anything superior to itself; its strength is boundless.
The yielding will has a reposeful ease, soft as downy feathers — a quietude, a shrinking from action, an appearance of inability to do (the heart is humble, but the work is forceful). Placidly free from anxiety one acts in harmony with the opponent's strength. One does not move ahead but responds to the fitting influence.
Bruce Lee
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Most people mistakenly give up the near to seek the far
Wang Tsung-yueh
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If you don%27t care for your neighbor, what good is your Tai Chi?
Manolo Yubero
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Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in the particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.
Epictetus
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If we are still fighting life, it is because we are not sufficiently tired of fighting. We have to get tired of fighting, but with an intelligent understanding of its futility, not with a feeling of despondency. This understanding comes when we no longer live apart from the Whole, when we no longer falsely assume that we have enemies.
- Vernon Howard
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The ultimate metaphysical secret, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not of reality but of the way we map and edit reality. And while it is fine to map out the territory, it is fatal to confuse the two.
Ken Wilber
Sayings By Richard
Learn to trust the comfort of aligned relaxation over the comfort of familiar habit
Be so Here you are not there
The How over The What
Not 'Fake it til you make it', not 'fake it til you become it', 'fake it til you realize you were always it'
Cause and Effect as One
Without Force does not mean Without Effort
Last updated 2023-12-28