It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence.

When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!

Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth

It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.