Life is a dance (quotes)

Life is a dance…

Life is a dance… Enjoy every step. Anthony D. Williams
Life’s a dance you learn as you go. John Michael Montgomery
Dance is movement, and movement is life. Ludmilla Chiriaeff
The dance is the highest symbol of life itself. Joseph Campbell
Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life. Stephen King
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. Marcus Aurelius
Life is a sexy little dance and I like to take the lead. Lisa Vanderpump
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs. Chris Cleave
I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself. Merce Cunningham
The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. Stephen King
Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear. Tony Robbins
If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm and You are the music. Pink
This life is a dance, not a battle. We are all part of this world, not masters of it. Kate Constable
Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it’s over, it’s done. Jerome Robbins
I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance. Josephine Baker
Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness. Deepak Chopra
Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through and by awareness. Deepak Chopra
Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity. Frederick Lenz
Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic. Rajneesh
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place. Barbara De Angelis
Life’s a dance you learn as you go, sometimes you lead sometimes you follow, don’t worry about what you don’t know. John Michael Montgomery
Life is the dance between what you desire most and what you fear most. You’ve got to be able to deal with the threshold of control. Marc Benioff
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. James Lovelock
Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years. Archilochus
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. Maya Angelou
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. Miguel Angel Ruiz
Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It’s the rhythm of your life. It’s the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy. Jacques d’Amboise
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. Charles Caleb Colton
Dance … is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements. Baker Brownell
By knowing yourself as the awareness … things lose their heaviness, their seriousness. A playfulness comes into your life. You recognize this world as a cosmic dance, the dance of form. Eckhart Tolle
The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila. Frederick Lenz
Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue. Lyall Watson
Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems – all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness. Frederick Lenz
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. Martha Graham
Life is a spiritual dance and that our unseen partner has steps to teach us if we will allow ourselves to be led. The next time you are restless, remind yourself it is the universe asking ‘Shall we dance? Julia Cameron
You cannot find the centre Where we dance , where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower , Under the smooth shell Of eggs in the cupped nest That mock the faded blue Of your remoter heaven . R. S. Thomas
According to Hindu belief, all life is part of a great rhythmic process of creation and destruction, of death and rebirth, and Shiva’s dance symbolizes this eternal life-death rhythm which goes on in endless cycles. Fritjof Capra
The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief……Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can be embraced, not out of a desire to suffer, but in the knowledge that something new will be born in the pain. Henri Nouwen
The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simmple, sel-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future. Dean Koontz
The art of living is based on rhythm – on give and take, ebb and flow, light and dark, life and death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good and bad, right and wrong, yours and mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, ‘the dance of life,’ metamorphosis. Henry Miller

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…the dance of consciousness

The whole creation is the dance of one consciousness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If you have your attention on what is see its fullness in every moment you will discover the dance of the divine in every leaf in every petal in every blade of grass in every rainbow in every rushing stream in every breath of every living being. …beyond memory and judgement lies the ocean of universal consciousness. Deepak Chopra

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Each moment is a dance

Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe. Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Love is a dance

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Rumi
Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide. Love is a conversion to humanity — a willingness to participate with others in the healing of a broken world and broken lives. Love is the choice to experience life as a member of the human family, a partner in the dance of life. Carter Heyward

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Reincarnation is a dance

Reincarnation is a dance. It is a movement of life to the rhythm of the universe. Spirit and matter join together as one dancing partner. They dance and it goes on forever. Frederick Lenz

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Nature is a dance

In seeing what is already here, true nature is revealed effortlessly. True nature is this movement of form (i.e. thoughts, objects, time, sound) dancing within this formlessness (i.e. space, awareness, silence). True nature is this one seamless dance happening now. Scott Kiloby
In the night of Brahman, Nature is inert, and cannot dance till Shiva wills it: He rises from His rapture, and dancing sends through inert matter pulsing waves of awakening sound, and lo! matter also dances, appearing as a glory round about Him. Dancing, He sustains its manifold phenomena. In the fullness of time, still dancing, He destroys all forms and names by fire and gives new rest. This is poetry, but none the less science. Ananda Coomaraswamy
The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you’re not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That’s what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet. Alice Walker

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The world is a dance

Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. Michael Jackson
The Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing : The trees, the wind, the sea. Keep dancing for the rest of your life. Daisaku Ikeda
The world is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance. Amit Ray

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The universe is a dance

In quantum field theory, spacetime is the continuous stage on which the dance of the quanta takes place. Ethan Siegel
A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life. Michael Jackson
Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos. Nita Ambani
The universe exists only through a constant dance of consistency and change. Through consistency, consciousness finds meaning; through change it finds stimulation and expansion. To find consistency within change is to embrace the unfolding flow. Anodea Judith
No intelligent supervisor, no mystic force, no conscious controlling agency swings the molecules into place at the right time, chooses the appropriate players, closes the links, uncouples the partners, moves them on. The dance of life is spontaneous, self-sustaining, and self-creating. Paul Davies
Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For modern physicists…Shiva’s dance is the dance of subatomic matter. Fritjof Capra
If the universe is a thought, and since thought is a result of consciousness and consciousness implies free will, then our universe is fundamentally ‘will-full’ and intent-ional, that is, it has and is an intent. Not intelligent design, like a building with an architect, but intentional and wilful, like a dance. Scott Owen
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics. Fritjof Capra
It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt . Alan Watts
The dance of creation and destruction is the basis of the very existence of matter, since all material particles ‘self-interact’ by emitting and reabsorbing virtual particles. Modern physics has thus revealed that every subatomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction. Fritjof Capra
At the still point of the turning world. Neither ﬂesh nor ﬂeshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it ﬁxity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. T. S. Eliot
Different particles develop different patterns in their dance, requiring different amounts of energy, and hence have different masses. Virtual particles, finally, are not only an essential part of all particle interactions and of most of the particles’ properties, but are also created and destroyed by the vacuum. Thus, not only matter, but also the void, participates in the cosmic dance, creating and destroying energy patterns without end. Fritjof Capra
Kenneth Ford is not the only physicist to have used phrases like ‘dance of creation and destruction’ and ‘energy dance’. The ideas of rhythm and dance naturally come into mind when one tries to imagine the flow of energy going through the patterns that make up the particle world. Modern physics has shown us that movement and rhythm are essential properties of matter; that all matter, whether here on Earth or in outer space, is involved in a continual cosmic dance. Fritjof Capra
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash – at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the “newness,” the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance. Thomas Merton
The Eastern mystics have a dynamic view of the universe similar to that of modern physics, and consequently it is not surprising that they, too, have used the image of the dance to convey their intuition of nature. A beautiful example of such an image of rhythm and dance is given by Alexandra DavidNeel in her Tibetan journey, where she describes how she met a Lama who referred to himself as a ‘master of sound’ and gave her the following account of his view of matter: “All things . . . are aggregations of atoms that dance and by their movements produce sounds. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it produces also changes . . . Each atom perpetually sings its song, and the sound, at every moment, creates dense and subtle forms.” Fritjof Capra
Modern physics has thus revealed that every subatomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction. The dance of Shiva is the dancing universe, the ceaseless flow of energy going through an infinite variety of patterns that melt into one another’’.For the modern physicists, then Shiva’s dance is the dance of subatomic matter. As in Hindu mythology, it is a continual dance of creation and destruction involving the whole cosmos; the basis of all existence and of all natural phenomenon. Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our times, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. Fritjof Capra
For the modern physicists, then, Shiva’s dance is the dance of subatomic matter. As in Hindu mythology, it is a continual dance of creation and destruction involving the whole cosmos; the basis of all existence and of all natural phenomena. Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The bubble-chamber photographs of interacting particles, which bear testimony to the continual rhythm of creation and destruction in the universe, are visual images of the dance of Shiva equalling those of the Indian artists in beauty and profound significance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art, and modern physics. It is indeed, as Coomaraswamy has said, ‘poetry, but none the less science’. Fritjof Capra

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God is a dance

God is not a static thing…but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance. C. S. Lewis
God is the very creative energy of existence – creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance. Rajneesh
Shiva’s dance-in the words of Coomaraswamy- is ‘the clearest image of the activity of God which any art or religion can boast of’. As the god is a personification of Brahman, his activity is that of Brahman’s myriad manifestations in the world. The dance of Shiva is the dancing universe; the ceaseless flow of energy going through an infinite variety of patterns that melt into one another. Fritjof Capra
The Divine, appearing as the dance of life, is known in India as Leela. Leo Hartong
Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, “What is a dance?” how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance. Rajneesh
He is life’s liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares — he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep. Euripides
The Dance of Shiva symbolizes not only the cosmic cycles of creation and destruction, but also the daily rhythm of birth and death which is seen in Indian mysticism as the basis of all existence. Fritjof Capra
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. Albert Einstein
I could only believe in a God who could dance… And now a God dances through me. Friedrich Nietzsche
I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he’d be able to carry a tune, too… Kevin Kline
In Hinduism, Shiva the Cosmic Dancer, is perhaps the most perfect personification of the dynamic universe. Through his dance, Shiva sustains the manifold phenomena in the world, unifying all things by immersing them in his rhythm and making them participate in the dance – a magnificent image of the dynamic unity of the Universe. Fritjof Capra

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There is only the dance

… where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, And there is only the dance. T.S.Eliot
Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances. Maya Angelou
The borders between the dancers blur and dissolve until only the dance remains. Leo Hartong

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Dance has no purpose other than itself

In its purest form, dancing is movement for its own sake and does not have a destination. It has no other reason for being, other than its expression in the present moment. Leo Hartong
Life is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Alan Watts
The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now. Robert Anton Wilson
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way. Wayne Dyer

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Join the dance and dance with life

Dance as though no one is watching. John Philip Sousa
It’s better to dance than to march through life. Yoko Ono
Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life. Rajneesh
It was time to move on, to dance with life again. Jacqueline Winspear
Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let’s dance. James Howe
Don’t wait for the storms of your life to pass. Learn to dance in the rain. Steve Rizzo
Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain. Sherrilyn Kenyon
You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt William Watson Purkey
The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. Martin Luther
Dance is a life, everyday. Don’t miss it. You’re in bodies, you can move… Where is your joy? Mary Anthony
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan Watts
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. Satchel Paige
The real dance is within; it is within your mind. Everything is inside your mind. God is inside your mind. Frederick Lenz
When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable. Mooji
Dancing with life is moving into the flow of our experiences – good or bad – with a feeling of harmony, trust, guidance and love. Susan Jeffers
Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause. Charlie Chaplin
We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need — the umbrella of God’s love. Barbara Johnson
To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is not so much a metaphor as a fact; to dance is to know oneself alone and to celebrate it. Sherman Paul
To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it — is a wonder beyond words. Joanna Macy
It’s beautiful to dance alone, beautiful to dance with your children, beautiful to dance with your friends, beautiful to dance with your lover, or even collectively. But the ultimate dance is the one we do by ourselves, when we make ourselves known to God. Gabrielle Roth
Even after we awaken to our true selves, we still experience life’s challenges but our attitude to them changes. We realise that the only true control we have is how we react to what life gives us. Life becomes much easier when we allow ourselves to go with the universal flow. To go with the flow is to let things be as they are. It is to stop pushing, pulling and grabbing at life’s lapels. Like a graceful and beautiful dance, we allow life to lead us without pushing back. As Alan Watts said, “The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Aimee Davies

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Let life lead in the dance of life

Any step taken to get closer to one’s true Self is one step too many. In the surrender to this ‘trip the light fantastic,’ life leads; and every step is from the Self and by the Self. Leo Hartong
Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer and you are the dance. Eckhart Tolle
Let things happen. Let life dance. Osho
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. Rabindranath Tagore
Life calls the tune, we dance. John Galsworthy
Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen. Arianna Huffington
Life is the dancer and you are the dance. Eckhart Tolle

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To dance with life is to dance with God

Your life within God’s arms, Your dance within God’s arms, Is already Perfect! Hafez

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