“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
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“It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.”
― A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
― A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
“Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.”
― Gifts of Unknown Things: A True Story of Nature, Healing, and Initiation from Indonesia's Dancing Island
― Gifts of Unknown Things: A True Story of Nature, Healing, and Initiation from Indonesia's Dancing Island
“Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I dance: to poems, to music but now I would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul.”
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