To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements.

A flower won't open if I yell at it and say “Bloom!

My soul is the bridge between spirit and body and, as such, is a uniter of opposites. Without soul at center, I would either transcend into spirit or become mired in matter.

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

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.

Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming both from the inside and from the outside, so that one is able to surrender to powers greater than oneself.

The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.