Work is the best antidote for worry.

Become an animist: see life and spirit in every little thing. Then listen for the song this vast community of spirit sings. This is Nature – the Great Spirit – not a transcendent God modelling our own vulgar egos – but an intelligent immanent gestalt. Gaia.

If you want to understand sinking – lower body strength – and you should – then study sumo.

The teaching is a lens revealing a world full of spirit.

The only useful way of avoiding the awfulness of existence is to busy yourself with the work.

The ocean is limitless and deep. But the heart is deeper than the ocean.

Teacher personifies the teaching.

God rules the world from on high (heaven). The King rules his subjects from on high (throne). Ego rules the individual from on high (head). This the ugly, false structure of the reality we have made for ourselves. And this why sinking low, from head to belly, from belly to root – the radical turn – is the endless beginning in our work.

When you're deep in your root then things are always looking up.

Man is in love and loves what vanishes

What more is there to say?

The stillness of stone.

un pur événement intérieur

What kills us, eventually, is the bottled up anger and pain. The past.

Content with little.

Without yielding there can be no understanding of relationship.

openness to the shaking