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

  • 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.

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

    Eagles   Study   Found  
  • 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.

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

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

    Yoga   Together   Body  
    "'There's another Marianne Faithfull who lives inside my head'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.
  • Tai Chi Chuan, the great ultimate, strengthens the weak, raises the sick, invigorates the debilitated, and encourages the timid

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

    Race   People   Car  
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

    Horse   Views   Experts  
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

    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.
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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