Worry is simply the call to prayer, misinterpreted. This call comes from inside (our own spirit) and from outside (Spirit at Large). Some problems – the important ones – cannot be solved with the mind; the heart must be used instead. Worship is a means of distracting and appeasing the agitated, selfish mind so that the heart can come to the fore and do its deeper work, a work the mind will never fathom, not until it's done anyway.

If you’re good at worrying, you will be great at worship; because it’s the same imagination serving the opposite purpose.

Today it's all packaging and advertising and very little content. Style over substance.

Spirit is the magic ingredient that allows the impossible to be realized.

Spiritual work is the struggle to control the mind. Stop it interfering – either by assisting or resisting – so heart and spirit can do what needs to be done.

Ego always tries to take centre stage, and, by doing so, acts and appears, the fool.

Each day, reaching beyond, takes its toll. But what to do?

This damn autocorrect always changes work to world and world to work.

If you have to ask, you'll never know.

Rise to the challenge.

The two most important qualities in Taiji are softness and lightness. They are often mistaken, but they are not the same. If anything, they are opposites – complimentary opposites – Yin & Yang. Softness is slow & seductive; lightness quick & lively. Female & male.

Form and forum are not the same thing. If anything they are opposites.

The essence of Taiji is yielding – the creation of loving, contained space. A turn and the return. Circles. It is painfully beautiful. It makes you smile and it makes you weep. Without it, the world and the work and the word would not exist.

I like everyone, as long as I don't have to spend more than an hour in their company.

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

Meditation, especially moving meditation (is there any other?), stretches the moment. It literally makes time.

Always listen for what you can leave out.