Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness.

The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.

I can tell you that it takes great strength to surrender. You have to know that you are not going to collapse. Instead, you are going to open to a power that you don't even know, and it is going to come to meet you. In the process of healing, this is one of the huge things that I have discovered. People recognized the energy coming to meet them. When they opened to another energy, a love, a divine love, came through to meet them. That is what is known as grace. We all sing about amazing grace. It is a gift.
I think that it comes through the work that we do. For some people, it can come out of the blue, but I know that in my own situation, the grace came through incredible vigilance.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking on of another body.