Tai chi wisdom

Teacher emanates.

Student emulates.

Makes sense

Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.

~ Mark Rippetoe

Zoom Zoom

Being a racing driver means you are racing with other people and if you no longer go for a gap that exists you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing.

~ Ayrton Senna

I see you, baby Jesus! (it is that baby Yoda?)

If you don't see the baby Jesus waving at you - at both the apex AND trackout - you either don't have the line right, you're giving up more speed than you should, or both.

~ Lance Schall

[sigh...]

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. 

~ Carl Sagan

Keep Looking Up...

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man knew a thing or two about his subject

On hiking - 

"I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. 

Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, 'A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' 

And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them." 

~ John Muir

A Zen koan for our times...

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

January 6, 2020

"Those who can make you believe absurdities

can make you commit atrocities"

~ Voltaire