Overcome any bitterness that may have come
because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain
that was entrusted to you.
Like the mother of the world
who carries the pain of the world in her heart
each one of us is part of her heart
and therefore endowed
with a certain measure of cosmic pain.
You are sharing in the totality of that pain.
You are called upon to meet it
in joy instead of self-pity.
~ Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan ♥ (Spiritual leader for the Sufi Order in the West)
In... women's ancien tradition of belly dance, Raqs al Sharqi, as a meditative practice, dancers often find the movements empowering in addition to being highly therapeutic. In this context, they refer to their art as mystical as well as sacred.~ Shelby Pizzarro
...Every expression is based on a memory, but when memory is plural, how does it resonate ?
~ Roger Sinha (Sunya | Sinha Danse / Constantinople)
...Love is the only thing that activates intelligence and creativity, something that purifies and free us...
~ A.M. expert on Sufism (DANCE AND PRAY THE SUFI WAY - article by Paulo Coelho)
Whenever you pass by the field
Where you have laid your ancestors
look well there upon,
and you shall see yourselves
and your children
dancing hand in hand
~ Kahlil Gibran ♥ (The Farewell: THE PROPHET)
The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself
~ La Meri, dance ethnologist
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...no matter how avant garde or contemporary the dance becomes, you must never lose its essence...
~ Ibrahim (Bobbye) Farrah
...there was a time in history, a long time ago, when the bounce and sway of a woman's hips was considered so beautiful that they set it to music and made a dance out of it...
~ Carolena nericcio (FatChanceBellyDance)
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
~ Khalil Gibran
