Commitment, resistance, solitude and love. These the four qualities that Heidegger says are required for "spiritual superiority." But why resistance? Well, firstly one needs to resist the forces of conformity in one's world (in Taiji we recommend yielding rather than blatant force – say Yes then do No). And secondly, it is only possible to spin a continuous thread of concentrated time when there is some resistance, actual or imaginary, to one's passage through time. This is the thread that must be clung to if one's bleeding (endless remembering) is to have power beyond the intermittent.