belief
in being
understood

And so forth

objects are
compensatory
substitutes

Just relax.

If there is a secret to Tai Chi and to life then this is it. A relaxed state is one unconstrained by the strictures of habit.

take care

practice
looking
deeply

Photo: Hettie Moore

create silence

no
matter
what

human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love

Plato

As I learn to relax, the fundamental fact of my being is no longer identity (objectness) but energy; and not just the energy that gathers and flows through me but the energy all around that influences me. Gradually I become a servant to energy by falling in love with the principles of energy – the first and foremost being Central Equilibrium: for energy to move I remain still.

on a path
to something
painful

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

rock bottom

outside
impinging
inside