Soul Food
The body never lies. ~Martha Graham
We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are. – Anais Nin
Don’t just do something. Sit there. – Richard Eyre
There is nowhere to go, so a way is not needed. In fact, dropping all the ways, dropping the very search and just being yourself is enough. Because you cannot do that, you have to be shown a few ways to walk and get tired on. That is just to exhaust you. – OSHO
Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.” – Goethe
“They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.” - Carol Buchner
“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” –Josef Albers
“A very wise old teacher once said: “I consider a day’s teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.” He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.” – Gilbert Highet
“Every time you wake up and ask yourself, “What good things am I going to do today?,” remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it takes a part of your life with it.” –Indian proverb
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”– Emily Dickinson
“All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it’s true that there’s a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.”—Don Miguel Ruiz
“Feel that you have something to give because you do. Assume that the people you are to play with will show up because they will.” – Michael Bernard Beckwith
Dance, when you’re broken open.
Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you’re perfectly free. – sufi mystic – jelaluddin rumi – 13th century