Chungliang Al Huang quotes

“Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.”
-- Chungliang Al Huang

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“Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz - something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.”
-- Chungliang Al Huang

Source : Chungliang Al Huang (2011). “Quantum Soup: Fortune Cookies in Crisis”, p.25, Singing Dragon

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“For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.”
-- Chungliang Al Huang

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“Marian Head is a true student of Tao. Her insightful and persuasive 'Wu-Wei' approaches for personal transformation reach our hearts with open invitation to join the 'soft' revolution and harmonious agreement for all.”
-- Chungliang Al Huang

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“When learning becomes you, then it appears as you need it, when you are being you.”
-- Chungliang Al Huang

Source : Chungliang Al Huang (2011). “Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain: The Essence of Tai Ji”, p.103, Singing Dragon

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“Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.”
-- Chungliang Al Huang

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“Extraordinary performances come out of a process of continuous, regular physical and mental practice. The mindset of an extraordinary athlete is relaxed but focused and open to even higher achievements.”
-- Chungliang Al Huang

Source : Chungliang Al Huang (2009). “Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life”, p.9, Bantam

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“I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.”

“Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.”

“Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.”

“The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.”

“The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.”

“According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.”

“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”

“Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!”

“We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.”

“After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.36, Mondial