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. Gabrielle Roth More Quotes by Gabrielle Roth More Quotes From Gabrielle Roth If you don't do your dance, who will? Gabrielle Roth dance ifs healing 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. Gabrielle Roth divorce expression stories Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being. It is up to each of us to celebrate and to actualize our being and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art. Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full authentic self-expression. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater. Gabrielle Roth opportunity mean art 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. Gabrielle Roth rely-upon medicine meditation 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. Gabrielle Roth self heart reality Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on. Gabrielle Roth pain hurt prayer Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries. Gabrielle Roth invasion anger integrity 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. Gabrielle Roth dance beautiful children 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. Gabrielle Roth true-joy sadness compassion Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change. Gabrielle Roth movement body healing Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action Gabrielle Roth suffering people art As Einstein queried, 'Why is it that I get my best ideas in the morning while I'm shaving?' Shaving is like meditation with a sharp object. When the mind is empty and receptive, big ideas flow through every cell of our body. When we're thinking too hard, we tense up and nothing can flow through us; our energy gets stuck in our heads. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go. Gabrielle Roth cells morning thinking 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. Gabrielle Roth break-through space moving Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart. Gabrielle Roth body healing heart After you leap, before you land, is God. Gabrielle Roth leap land 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. Gabrielle Roth buddhist athlete dark Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story. Gabrielle Roth medicine expression philosophy There is a dance that only you know how to do Gabrielle Roth know-how knows We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature. Gabrielle Roth authenticity should practice Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul. Gabrielle Roth spiritual wise mother
