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Qi-Gong mainly uses spirit regulation and mind cultivation to rectify the functions of internal organs and improve the functions of Qi sublimation, so Yin and Yang can reach a balance and blood and Qi can be harmonized.
“Si el libro que leemos no nos despierta de un puñetazo en el cráneo, ¿para qué leerlo?… Un libro tiene que ser un hacha que rompa el mar de hielo que llevamos dentro.”
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“I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to.”
― Prison Writings
― Prison Writings
“Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”
― Freedom from the Known
― Freedom from the Known
“Truth has no path, and that is the beauty of truth, it is living. A dead thing has a path to it because it is static, but when you see that the truth is something living, moving, which has no resting place, which is in no temple, mosque or church, which no religion, no teacher, no philosopher, nobody can lead you to - then you will also see that this living thing is what you actually are.”
― Freedom from the Known
― Freedom from the Known
“I light a smoke and tell myself stories that I hope will keep me sane.”
― Sacred Smokes
― Sacred Smokes
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