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“Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.”

Way Body Roots Aging Seeking Do Not Fear

Author:Laozi

“Currents of energy shimmer through our bodies. Like shooting stars, we rocket through spacious stillness. But this silent, unmoving background is nothing like the granite ideas we use trying to take root in groundless soil.”

Trying Ideas Use Body Energy Stars Roots Silent Currents Backgrounds Shooting Soil Stillness Rockets Granite Shimmer Shooting Star

Author:Anthony Lawlor

“When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to draw, we teach her to see. When we teach a child to dance, we teach him about his body and about space, and when he acts on a stage, he learns about character and motivation. When we teach a child design, we reveal the geometry of the world. When we teach children about the folk and traditional arts and the great masterpieces of the world, we teach them to celebrate their roots and find their own place in history.”

World Children Art Play Character Body Motivation Space Teach Stage Design Draws Roots Folks Traditional Celebrate Masterpiece Geometry Flutes

Book:Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics

Source: Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics

“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.”

World Children Body Lasts Mother Dies Left Growth Tree Grew Glory Rain Roots Shame Forests Naked Elsewhere Bent Torn Jungle Garments Ripped Coastal

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.”

Feels Heart Self Body Joy Love Is Personality Ego Roots Surrender Mature Hegemony Mature Love

Book:Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life

Source: Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life

“I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots.”

World Feels Made Stills Body Wanted Purpose Felt Pleasure Deals Pure Solitude Roots Invention Parallels Nostalgic

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.”

Ifs Body Action Given Animal Eating Roots If I Could Significance Ritual Grain Filling Utilitarian

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend