Ken Cohen famous quotes

Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in everyday life. In movement, seek stillness and rest. In rest, be mindful and attentive.
-- Ken Cohen

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The more qi-full you are, the more cheerful you are.
-- Ken Cohen

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Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.
-- Ken Cohen

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For optimal health, we need body and spirit, exercise (ming) and meditation, awareness of the inner world and the outer. In other words, health requires balance and moderation. The goal of qigong may be summarized as xing ming shuang xiu,spirit and body equally refined and cultivated. Cultivate your whole being, as you would cultivate a garden with attention, care, and even love.
-- Ken Cohen

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Qigong is a jewel that has many facets.
-- Ken Cohen

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A cup of tea is a cup of peace.
-- Ken Cohen

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Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.
-- Ken Cohen

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Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?

It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.

Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death.

Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics - this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.

It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

Corporate governance is concerned with holding the balance between economic and social goals and between individual and communal goals. The governance framework is there to encourage the efficient use of resources and equally to require accountability for the stewardship of those resources. The aim is to align as nearly as possible the interests of individuals, corporations and society.

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".