Gabrielle Roth Quotes
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Put your body in motion and your psyche will heal itself.
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When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer
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To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat
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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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If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.
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Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.
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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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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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The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body
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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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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.
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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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Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.
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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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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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It's beautiful to dance alone, beautiful to dance with your children, beautiful to dance with your friends, beautiful to dance with your lover, or even collectively. But the ultimate dance is the one we do by ourselves, when we make ourselves known to God.
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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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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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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 self is a dance, constantly in motion.
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If you have a body you are a dancer
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To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first.
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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.'