Quotes from Gabrielle Roth

To swear is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self.

the pain is not your pain but your relationship to it.

Once your body surrenders to movement, your soul remembers its dance.

When awareness is grounded, we become aware of what is going on in our bodies in the space between our heads and our feet.

Love is emotional energy flowing rightly. It is the full range of emotions expressed appropriately, in the moment, honestly, directly. A lover is a child grown up.

Feelings are neither positive nor negative; they simply are elemental forces in our life energy with their own vibrations and functions. They are essential to our health and well-being. Essentially, fear protects, anger defends, sadness releases, joy uplifts, compassion unites.

Compassion means giving someone what they need, which is not always what they want.

The life blood of a relationship becomes blocked by clots of repression and denial, and our creative, life-building energy is absorbed by exhausting strategies of avoidance.

Empty the mind of all its chatter and see what's there. This is the work of self-knowledge: to uncover your authentic self.

Teachers come and go. In each step of the process, a teacher is to be met, lessons learned, relationships completed, instincts appropriated.

Mother is the sacred teacher of this cycle. She passes on her lessons through her body by example, guidance, attitude, energy, vibration.

In vulnerability one practices the art of friendship, the art of the heart. It is an essential spiritual practice.

I was discovering that if you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.

My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is the key to our healing.

Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.

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

To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first.