What they're saying about Return To Stillness:

"A colorful journey into the Tao of tai chi. Carolan is the perfect guide to a world where "the wind blows through the plum blossoms" and "the fish leaps over the dragon gate." It's a world where stillness comes from motion, teachers appear whether or not students are ready, and magic happens when you let go of effort. Full of lasting wisdom and insight."
Leza Lowitz, author of Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By

"A carefully constructed and gracefully elucidated work. After twenty years of practice, the author comes to cherish the peace, the calm, and the measure of grace in the rhythms and routines of daily life."
Frederic Brussat, Spirituality & Health

"Conveyed with humour, realism, and understated reverence, Carolan shows that with patience and an open mind, these arts are open to all who want to live a long, full, and enriched human life. Moves progressively towards a personal meditation on the deep transmission of knowledge and mutual concern between master and student, while avoiding the slavish adoration that misconstrues Chinese martial arts as a form of cult or a competitive path to superhuman abilities"
James Ferguson, The Culture Mandala

WHAT THE CRITICS SAY…

"An enormously impressive and important book ... Has its sights set on tyranny of any hue."
South China Morning Post (The Colours of Heaven)

"Suggests the East will remain inscrutable only if we choose not to know it."
Cleveland Plain Dealer (The Colours of Heaven)

"The stories have been scrupulously chosen ... While none are directly about politics, all are about political facts which shape local lives."
Donald Richie
The Japan Times (The Colours of Heaven)

"Destined to be a modern classic of Taoism. This lucid and subtle translation can be read again and again: for pleasure, for guidance, for simple, direct contemplation."
Diane di Prima (The Book of the Heart)

"Clean, clear poems out of the New World--Asia and western North America--they embrace large space and fine detail."
Gary Snyder (Closing the Circle)

"This may well be the shape of art to come in our ethnically diverse city...The real strength flows from Carolan's poetic texts: the use of language is intensely musical."
Michael Scott
Vancouver Sun (The Music of the Stones)

"A Canadian breakthrough rare in the beauty of its presentation of contemporary images and scenes of life on the West Coast."
Patricia Osoko
Victoria Times-Colonist ("The Calgary Suite")