Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

Understand your limitations and capitalize on them.

The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?