Tai Chi 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

  Mean, Mind, Together

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• When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

  Sarah Zettel

  Inspirational, Dance, Reading

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• I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

  Terence Stamp

  Art, Years, Fundamentals

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• Tai Chi Chuan, the great ultimate, strengthens the weak, raises the sick, invigorates the debilitated, and encourages the timid

  Cheng Man-ch'ing

  Sick, Weak, Raises

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• Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.

  Lou Reed

  Race, People, Car

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• Spiritual balance is tai chi. It is the center of things. It is the place where yin and yang meet. In the chakras, it is considered the heart chalkra, anahata.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Heart, Buddhism

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• I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.

  Phyllis Diller

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Meditation

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• The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind of moving meditation, like Qigong or Tai Chi.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Moving, Thinking, Qigong

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• There is no mystique to Tai Chi Chuan. What is difficult is the perseverance. It took me ten years to discover my chi, but thirty years to learn how to use it. Once you see the benefit, you won't want to stop.

  Ma Yueliang

  Perseverance, Art, Years

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• The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Success, Believe, Hard Work

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• If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

  Hal Sparks

  Style, Yang, Study

  "Comedian Hal Sparks on love and pot" by Jarrett Bellini, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2011.

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• I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Yoga, Together, Body

  "'There's another Marianne Faithfull who lives inside my head'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.

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• The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Chinese, Taoism

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• If there were a ritual dance of the androgyne, Tai chi as performed by this master could be that dance. It is neither a masculine dance nor a feminine dance. It has the strength and grace of both.

  June Singer

  Grace, Feminine, Masters

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• The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Space, Taoism

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• Eventually, it came to this place like, "I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell." Man of Tai Chi became the story to tell.

  Keanu Reeves

  Men, Needs, Stories

  "Q&A: Keanu Reeves on Making His First Movie, Man of Tai Chi". Interview with Calum Marsh, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Prayers are designed to raise God-consciousness five times a day, throughout one's life. Prayers also provide regular exercise - like yoga or Tai Chi or Qigong built into the day - and serve as a calming retreat from the daily demands of life. Muslims thus learn to balance deeni wa dunyavi (the spiritual and the worldly). They can't abandon one for the other; that's the essence of their faith.

  Haroon Siddiqui

  Spiritual, Prayer, Yoga

  Haroon Siddiqui (2010). “Groundwork Being Muslim”, p.59, A&C Black

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• If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.

  Lou Reed

  Horse, Views, Experts

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• Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is.

  Lou Reed

  Teacher, People, Aspect

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• Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way the Tai Chi teacher told us to breath the air, transforming it into energy, motion. Dancing is the body's song, and Bess sang.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Song, Teacher, Air

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2011). “Fatigue Artist”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Art, Philosophy, Issues

  "'Art of Learning' isn't just black and white". Interview with Tracey Wong Briggs, usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 17, 2007.

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• But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

  Lou Reed

  Eagles, Study, Found

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• I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.

  Keanu Reeves

  Men, Waiting, Cinema

  "Keanu Reeves Talks ‘Man Of Tai Chi’ ’47 Ronin’". Interview with Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. October 31, 2013.

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