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 More Quotes by Gabrielle Roth More Quotes From Gabrielle Roth There is a dance only you can do, that exists only in you, here and now, always changing, always true. Are you willing to listen with fascination? If you are, it will deliver you unto the self you have always dreamed you could be. This is a promise. Gabrielle Roth fascination self promise Energy moves in waves. Gabrielle Roth patterns energy moving If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. 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 self feet giving When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking. Gabrielle Roth being-alone teacher fall Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness. Gabrielle Roth wilderness miles feet Don't be afraid to show your light.. If it ends up being too much for people.. tell them to wear sunglasses! Gabrielle Roth sunglasses light people I believe in the power of motion, the wisdom of gravity, the emptiness of true love, the fact that there is no way out but through the body, no way up unless we all go together, no way down unless we follow the beat, no way in unless we embrace the dark. Gabrielle Roth dark together believe Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence... So many of us are not in our bodies, really at home and vibrantly present there. Nor are we in touch with the basic rhythms that constitute our bodily life. We live outside ourselves - in our heads, our memories, our longings - absentee landlords of our own estate. My way back into life was ecstatic dance. I reentered my body by learning to move my self, to dance my own dance from the inside out, not the outside in. Gabrielle Roth home memories moving The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body Gabrielle Roth body mind moving To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat Gabrielle Roth offering prayer past Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender; when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance. Gabrielle Roth light artist sweet 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. Gabrielle Roth sweat dancing talking You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being FULLY ALIVE, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts. Gabrielle Roth be-who-you-are settling alive Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves. Gabrielle Roth silence dancing healing The dance is not where we lose ourselves. But where we find ourselves. Gabrielle Roth loses If you have a body you are a dancer Gabrielle Roth dancer body ifs Put your body in motion and your psyche will heal itself. Gabrielle Roth bodies-in-motion heal-itself body Each of us has the power and responsibility to heal ourselves, to be our own medicine man or woman. Awakening our innate powers of being, loving, knowing, seeing, and healing involves ongoing work at all levels and in all dimensions of our self. Exploring the range of rhythms and emotions, achieving insights into our conditioning and ego, moving through the energy levels of spirit – these are all activities to be integrated into our daily lives. Gabrielle Roth responsibility healing moving 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. Gabrielle Roth offering self prayer We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge or an analyst. Gabrielle Roth space judging safe
