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

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

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

Instead of transcending ourselves, we must move into ourselves.

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

It is amazing that our souls - our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world - are contained within these temporal bodies. No wonder suffering is part of the human condition.

Storytelling is at the heart of life... In finding our own story, we assemble all the parts of ourselves. Whatever kind of mess we have made of it, we can somehow see the totality of who we are and recognize how our blunderings are related. We can own what we did and value who we are, not because of the outcome but because of the soul story that propelled us.