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 world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died. A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there's no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
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