Birth: January 20, 1879 Death: July 21, 1968
I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space..
You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God..
How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?.
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, ….
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies ….
We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts..
It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind..
I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words..
We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us..
Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence..
I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better..
Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest g….
Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolo….
The Gods have meant That I should dance And in some mystic hour I shall move to unheard rhythms Of the cosmic orchestra of heaven And you will k….
It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of ….
I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop..
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words..
I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation..
When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosi….
As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.
We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.