Quotes from Gabrielle Roth

We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.

Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.

We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.

Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.

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.

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.

Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.

Ci vuole disciplina per essere uno spirito libero

In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: "When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?

If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves.

Compassion is a chameleon: it can wear the face of fear, anger, sadness, joy or even dispassion, depending on what's needed at the time. The compassionate Buddha has a smile in one eye and a tear in the other, and our Buddha mission is to lead people to true freedom, not to hold their hand and tell them that everything is going to be all right. In teaching, compassion means doing whatever needs to be done to get to the next phase.

Where we stopped dancing, singing, being enchanted by stories, or finding comfort in silence is where we have experienced the loss of soul. Dancing, singing, storytelling, and silence are the four universal healing salves.

Attachment guarantees that you will wake up every morning with a mission: to prove you are who you think you are—today. But it's a total energy drain. you're so busy performing a role that you miss out on the freedom to improvise, to be real rather than rehearsed.

Rumi: "Dancing is not rising to your feet painlessly like a whirl of dust blown about by the wind. Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul.

To become a great teacher, one must become a teaching.

being entranced by the ego prevents us from feeling pain; in fact, it prevents us from feeling anything—ecstasy, grief, compassion, anger, shame, love—from feeling alive.

Maybe our fear of intimacy is rooted in our fear of the dark, especially the deep dark within, the great unknown. We perceive our inner darkness as a void, an emptiness that fills us with anxiety. We try to stuff this black hole instead of realizing that we are the black hole and that its emptiness is actually a fathomless freedom.

Use the flowing rhythms to feel your fear; use staccato to feel and express anger, chaos for sadness, lyrical for joy, stillness for compassion. The rhythms catalyze each emotion and each stage of each emotion.

All healing journeys begin and end in the body.

Life is a mysterious game: the only way to win is to surrender.

We are actors on life's stage. Our challenge is to find the real play, and our true roles.

Essentially, fear protects, anger defends, sadness releases, joy uplifts, compassion unites. Fear is close to the surface of our self, anger is rather deeper, sadness and joy are progressively more interior, and compassion emanates from our profound center. Each is a level and a vibration of energy that needs to flow freely for us to be really engaged in the present.

Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that, energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance.