Tai Chi: Push Hands “Pushing hands works to undo a person’s natural instinct to resist force with force, teaching the body to yield to force and redirect it.”
Aikido: Blending “The aikidoist moves toward the incoming problematic energy and then, at the last instant, turning so as to look momentarily at the situation from the attacker’s viewpoint. From this position, many possibilities exist” George Leonard
Bible: Matthew 5:5
“Blessed are the gentle for they shall inherit the earth”
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his [or her] own heart?”
I Ching
When flowing water meets with obstacles on its path,
a blockage in its journey, it pauses.
It increases in volume and strength,
filling up in front of the obstacle
and eventually spilling past it.
Tao of Leadership by John Heider
All behaviors contain their opposites:
Hyper inflation leads to collapse.
A show of strength suggests insecurity.
What goes up must come down.
If you want to prosper, be generous.