Top Ten Things Learned or Reinforced in 2010

10. Sometimes stability becomes stagnation and uncertainty becomes flexibility.
9. If you are a musician at heart, it will burn like fire unless you let it out.
8. Sometimes when you lose, you win.
7. Paradox is the fundamental nature of reality.
6. Reason and intuition are inseparable - you cannot have one without the other.
5. Motivation and discipline don't help. (thanks Sadie!)
4. Institutions, like biological organisms, will do anything they can to survive, even if that action undermines the reason they came to exist in the first place.
3. Any meaningful action is uncomfortable.
2. True harmony is imbalance- a constant give and take between opposites.
1. To live is to create, and to create is to live.

 "Step Back and Ride the Tiger"
(Yang Style T'ai Chi Short Form Posture #35)