Ruth St. Denis Quotes

In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying.

When I get on the dance floor, my purpose in being on the dance floor is not to end up at another spot when the music stops. The purpose of the dance is to enjoy every step along the way.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.

Ecstasy and beauty are eternal.

Praying and living deeply, richly and fully have become for me almost indistinguishab le. Prayer is being present, sharing love, opening life to transcendence. It is not necessarily words addressed heavenward. Prayer is entering into the pain or joy of another person. Prayer is what I am doing when I love wastefully, passionately and wondrously and invite others to do so.

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.

As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

Being fully in the present, you experience the timeless. In the timeless, you find your true self.

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.

When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.

THE TECHNIQUES OF the Art of Peace are neither fast nor slow, nor are they inside or outside.. They transcend time and space.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.

If I can not dance, I shall die!

I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.

Nothing makes me happier than dancing. It transforms me. It's the only time I let out what is inside and I feel completely sensual and sexy and alive.

Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.

Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can’t explain — I don’t need to. I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Or if I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. I’m here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.

Let this be the criterion always: anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you dance and sing to such an extent that you disappear in your dancing, in your singing, in your celebration... is the only true religion I know of.

Dance in the fullness of time.