the "I" ... has a tendency to organize everything around itself and to ensure that everything that it gives out is returned with interest
John D Caputo
14 January 2011
When I do Tai Chi I leave an energetic trace – lines surfaces and sweeping trails – in the physical space I share. I also leave an affectionate trace – an honest profile of how I feel to be fully immersed in the doing of Tai Chi – in the heart-space I share. Softness allows these two realities to merge so that my physical movements flow as much from my heart as from my root, and my feelings emanate as much from the Earth as from my heart.
13 January 2011
Softness is the most mind-stopping, earth-shattering, heart-wrenching, revolutionary concept. It throws the known world sharply out of focus and opens up unknown worlds so numerous that any attempt to enumerate and define – grasp – necessarily limits and distorts. It becomes clear when confronted and opened by softness that even the will to understand closes – hardens – separates.
