Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun. . . Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with a Chi Omega, a woman's woman.
At the most one could say that his chi or. . . personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly; so his chi agreed.
It's t'ai chi every time. I'm using your positive energy, and I'm blowing off it. See, most guys can't push, they got to lean. When they lean, I spin.
He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It. , Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene. ]
He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of a woman. [It. , Ne l'onde solca, e ne l'arena semina, E'l vago vento spera in rete acogliere Chi sue speranze fonda in cor di femina. ]
If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.
Ho Chi Minh preferred to use the tactics of negotiation and compromise, primarily because of his recognition that the revolutionary movement was militarily weaker than its adversaries.
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.
Some 30 years later I found myself back here again [in Vietnam] on what was to be a short visit that lasted months, and since then I've been living my life with one foot in Ho Chi Minh City and the other in Fair Oaks, California.
When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.
The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
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.