the earth dances in things and these in turn gesture forth the world

Breathing tonifies time.

From heaviness comes lightness; from discipline comes freedom.

Science only looks at the first layer.

The reason we no longer settle into our own being is because we can more easily settle into an external frame. Then, high and mighty, we judge all around, remaining remote from our true selves. 

The guiding principles of the Tao are: 

• Everything in the universe is part of the whole. 
• Everything has its opposite. 
• Everything is evolving into its opposite. 
• The extremes of one condition are equal to its opposite. 
• All antagonisms are complementary. 
• There is no beginning and no end, yet whatever has a beginning has an end. 
• Everything changes; nothing is absolute.

What's important is not opinion – whether I like or dislike – but how I put things to use in the noble endeavour of becoming a better person.

Given the ham-fisted quality of attention nowadays, it's probably better distracted than focused.

Mastery is knowing what needs to be done.

It's not about knowledge acquired but practice suffered.

earth as sensuous appearing

Taijiquan is all about yielding when you get into a fight: probably the most difficult scenario in which to try to present relaxed, yielding softness. The only way it is ever going to be possible is if you are already yielding in every other area of life. Yielding must become the way you live your life – the motor which takes you through your day.

Stop being such a landlubber: develop sea-legs.

Human being is out of order.

The Bourgeois Frame: the world is as I like it. 

Work soon puts pay to this.

placing practice at the heart of method

Suffering exists to be embraced rather than avoided. This insight marks the beginning of real work – the start of the journey.