Wisdom

Selected Quotes

Yin and Yang relationship to each other is not static, duality.  In motion they separate; in stillness they fuse. To the Taoist the fundamental principle of long & fulfilling life was the balancing of Yin & Yang in everything. Ancient Thoughts - Modern application B. Tony Zayner

You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. Walter Hagen (Golfer 1892-1969)

A tree as great as a Man’s Embrace - Springs from a small shoot;
A terrace nine stories high - Begins with a pile of earth;
A journey of a thousand miles - Starts under one’s feet
From the Tao Te Ching: By Lao Tsn

Do not be eager, gets what you have been given. Grandmaster Tao Ping-Siang

Listen to the energy behind the movements.  Grandmaster Dr. John Kells

The feast is forward.  Grandmaster Dr. John Kells

Practice false to cultivate the truth.  From classic - source unknown

Your opponent starts first but you arrive first.  From classic - source unknown

Imagination, song, the soaring spirit, Separate them to know them as aspects of the whole, Join them to know the mystery of totality.  Tao

Lose, lose, lose until there is nothing more to lose. Chinese proverb

Chinese translation of “Pushing Hands” is called:  “Investigating Hands”

Anybody who uses language should know that “words” are not a “replication” of experience but a “representation”.  Language does not replicate experience although it may replicate what is thought to be experience.  Source unknown