Part of The Dance

How could you dance through the years so that even as your body ages and withers, your heart opens ever more full, as wide as the moment, shining as love’s radiance to all?

At its best the 2nd line is also unselfconscious, like the dancer who becomes lost in the joy of the dance.

flexibility and strength, slowness and speed, stillness and movement, meditation and action. In fact you don’t have to choose. You don’t have to sacrifice one thing for another.

can participate in the dance of creation and be active without attachment to outcome and without placing unreasonable demands upon the world: Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am.

Yes. With dance, it is the dancing itself that is the goal, and no one is concerned with arriving somewhere by doing it. Naturally, it may happen that one arrives somewhere as a result of having danced. Since one is dancing, one does not stay in the same place. But there is no destination.

let’s dance in earnest the moments of the here and now, and live in earnest. Do not look at the past, and do not look at the future. One lives each complete moment like a dance. There is no need to compete with anyone, and one has no use for destinations. As long as you are dancing, you will get somewhere.