. . . for meaning is never in the event but in the motion through event. Otherwise we could isolate an instant in the event and say that this is the event itself. The meaning. But we cannot do that. For it is the motion which is important.
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.
I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.
Expectation is faith in motion: you expect the things you hope for to happen.
...I looked out the window at walls of moonlit cloud rising beside us as though we we were at the bottom of some, gray and ivory canyon, hung above the moon-smashed sea...But, with whatever hindsight, I suppose the reason that I want to close on a consideration of these words is that the moon-solid progress through high, drifting cumulus is _ read them again _ at the very opposite of what we perceive on a liquid's tilting and untilting top, and so becomes the other privileged pole among the images of this study, this essay, this memoir. Or perhaps, as it is only a clause whose syntactic place has been questioned by my own unscholarly researches, I merely want to fix it before it vanishes like water, like light, like the play between them we only suggest, but never master, with the word motion.
For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number.
Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.
If you want to be happy you have to study people who are happy. You have to hang out with people that are happy. Life won't go in the direction you want, by simply trying to stay positive in a life you're not happy with. You have to know what you want and why you truly want it so badly. When you figure that out then you need to change your current identity, in order to fit the type of person you envision would make those dreams come true. Happiness is not reliant on the actions or inactions of other people. It is your __ourage in motion_ toward your dreams.
Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.
Dance is the ritual of immortality.
Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.
Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature__ hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.
DANCE _ Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.
Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.
She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.
If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.
Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.