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.
I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.
Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.
Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.
Life is a continuity always and always. There is no final destination it is going towards. Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life, not reaching to some point, no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage, moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.
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