Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance.
Interpretation
Movement serves as a means of self-discovery and truth, devoid of rigid beliefs.
In this quote, Gabrielle Roth emphasizes the transformative power of movement, suggesting that it acts as both a physical and spiritual practice that reveals our true selves and our connections with others. Unlike fixed ideologies, movement is fluid, allowing us to express and explore our identities and relationships authentically, while also guiding us towards our future paths.
In practice
In a yoga class, to inspire students about the importance of movement for mental clarity.
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.
When I am dancing, it feels like my prayer. It's like an offering. I offer my head back to the dance, I offer my shoulders back to the dance, my elbows, my hands, my spine, my knees, my feet, my whole self, my bones, my blood, my experience, my suffering... I offer it all back to the dance and I say: take it, do whatever you want with me. Release me.
Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us.
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.
Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.
Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature.
There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial, and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty.
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