Wednesday, August 07, 2024

The Dance of Life



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.

One can dance to sorrow or to joy; one can even dance abstractly. But the point is that, by the mere act of dancing, the elements which compose it are transformed; the dance is an end in itself, just like life. The acceptance of the situation, any situation, brings about a flow, a rhythmic impulse towards self-expression.

To relax is, of course, the first thing a dancer has to learn. It is also the first thing a patient has to learn when he confronts the analyst. It is the first thing any one has to learn in order to live. It is extremely difficult, because it means surrender, full surrender.



See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
The Art of Surrender
Sweet Surender
I Surrender to You
Kiki Dee and Carmelo Luggeri: Where Rivers Meet
Something Wonderful
Time and the River
The Dancer and the Dance
Flexibility and Flow
To Dance . . .
The Soul of a Dancer
The Premise of All Forms of Dance
The Art of Dancing as the Supreme Symbol of the Spiritual Life
Not Whether We Dance, But How
Awakening the Wild Soul
Our Bodies Are Part of the Cosmos
On the Rocks . . . But in a Good Way
Love’s the Only Dance
Our Dance
Mystical Participation
“I Came Alive With Hope”

Art: Patrick Mizumoto.


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