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.
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
Lukewarm people call 'radical' what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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