A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

If you are living for an ideal and driving yourself as hard as you can to be perfect - at your job or as a mother or as a perfect wife - you lose the natural, slow rythmn of life. There's a rushing, trying to attain the ideal; the slower pace of the beat of the earth, the state where you simply are, is forgotten

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

Transition begins in forgiveness.

The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot of the movies we watch.

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