Quan the heart principle5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() And looking up in the night sky we can see a river of stars. The rings in an exposed log look like a whirlpool. ![]() Spiders build their webs, caterpillars their cocoons in water-like spirals. Even solid bones have lines of flow on their exterior and in their spongy interior. Thus we sense something similar in clouds, smoke, streams, the wind-blown waves of sand on the beach, the pattern of branches against the sky, the shape of summer grasses, the markings on rocks, the movement of animals. An earlier version of this essay was published in T’ai Chi: The International Magazine of T’ai Chi Ch’uan, September 1997Īll natural things curl, swirl, twist, and flow in patterns like flowing water. ![]()
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