Gabrielle Roth Quotes
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When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer
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There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.
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Your voice takes you to your heart.
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If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.
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Don't be afraid to show your light.. If it ends up being too much for people.. tell them to wear sunglasses!
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In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened... or depressed would be asked,... When did you stop dancing? ... This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.
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We dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things, to wipe out memory or transform it into moves that nobody else can make because they didn’t live it.
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I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm.
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Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.
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The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body
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We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.
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Energy moves in waves.
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If you have a body you are a dancer
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Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.
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To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat
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Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.
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Imagination is powerful. Imagination is healing. All you need is the courage to visualize what should be, and then give yourself to its creation. The result may not be what you expected, but it will be right.
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The self is a dance, constantly in motion.
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Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields a whole new wave, and in fact that is all I really know. Riding these waves means joining the cosmic dance that, as Dante says, 'moves the sun and the other stars.'
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Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.
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After you leap, before you land, is God.
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Our soul, our true self, is the most mysterious, essential, and magical dimension of our being. In fact, it is not a separate reality, as traditional Western thought views it, but the cohesive force that unites our body, heart, and mind. It is not a ghost trapped somehow in the physical machinery of our body but the very essence of our being.
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The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat.
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Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.