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Submitted by Visudha on Tue, 2005-12-20 06:59.
(Note: this page is where I will recycle all of the quotes from "Reflections" block when I change the quote)
  • "If I could explain it, there would be no point in dancing"
    Isadora Duncan
    "When we experience moments of ecstacy -- in play, in stillness, in art, in great sex -- they come not as an exception, an accident, but as a taste of what life is meant to be. Why shouldn't we be able to live more and more in ecstacy, if we have the courage to venture out of inertia and imitation into intuition and imagination? Ecstacy is an ideal, a goal, but it can be the expectation of every day. Those times when we're grounded in our body, pure in our hearts, clear in our minds, rooted in our soul, and suffused with the spirit of life, are our birthright."
    Gabrielle Roth, Maps to Ecstasy

    "Dance First. Think Later. It's the natural order."
    Samuel Beckett

  • (1/28/06) "We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
    Friedrich Nietzsche

    (1/22/06)"Only by being true and honest to our inner selves can we fullfill our own nature and the nature of others and influence those in our world. When we are out of touch with our inner self, we feel fear"
    Chungliang Al Huang, Jerry Lynch

    (1/12/06)"If your heart is involved, your senses open up to whaat you're doing, and, as your senses are opening up, you see the brilliance of the world around you."
    Jan Enthoven
  • (1/8/06)"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
    C.G. Jung, Psychological Reflections: A Jung Anthology
  • (1/5/06)"Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body"
    Isadora Duncan
  • (1/2/06)"Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that, energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance"
    Gabrielle Roth, Sweat Your Prayers (xxvii)
  • (12/31/05)"Oppositions of mind and body, soul and matter, spirit and flesh all have their origin, fundamentall, in fear of what life may bring forth. They are the marks of contraction and withdrawal".
    John Dewey, Art as Experience (22)
  • 12/29/05 "So how do we dissolve the artificial dualities of the ego? For me there are only two ways -- movement or stillness. Not movement full of steps or stillness full of thoughts, but feeling the movement in the stillness and the stillness in all motion. We need to quiet our demons by dancing them until they are set to rest. Or meditate until the bastards jump ship. Really be still or really move. Whichever you do, do it mindfully."
    Gabrielle Roth, Connections
  • If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever-more wonders."
    Andrew Harvey, The Return of the Mother
  • "The most straightfoward advice on awakening bodhichitta is this: practice not causing harm to anyone--yourself or others--and every day, do what you can to be helpul."
    Pema Chodron
  • "A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art, or love, or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened."
    Albert Camus

  • A community is a well to drink from, a place to nourish our spirits and ind the strength we need to ride life's ups and downs. It's also a place to discover what we have to give. Every one of us has something to share, and it's our individual responsibility to reach out and ofer someone who may be struggling a helping hand. Community service is an active prayer. To be complete we need to serve.
    Gabrielle Roth

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