[Adta] Fwd: Everything Moves

[Heidi ehrenreich]

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> Hello Everyone, I was just sent this and decided it is a must to  
> pass on. Enjoy. Happy Holidays. Heidi Ehrenreich
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> Everything Moves
> By Paulo Coelho
> For The Bali Times
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> Everything moves. And everything moves to a rhythm. And everything
> that moves produces a sound; that is happening here and all over the
> world at this very moment. Our ancestors noticed the same thing when
> they tried to escape from the cold in their caves: things moved and
> made noise.
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> The first human beings perhaps looked on this with awe, and then with
> devotion: they understood that this was the way that a Superior Being
> communicated with them. They began to imitate the noises and
> movements around them, hoping to communicate with this Being: and
> dancing and music were born.
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> When we dance, we are free.
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> To put it better, our spirit can travel through the universe, while
> our body follows a rhythm that is not part of the routine. In this
> way, we can laugh at our sufferings large or small, and deliver
> ourselves to a new experience without any fear. While prayer and
> meditation take us to the sacred through silence and inner pondering,
> in dance we celebrate with others a kind of collective trance.
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> They can write whatever they want about dancing, but it is no use:
> you have to dance to find out what they are talking about. Dance to
> the point of exhaustion, like mountain-climbers scaling some sacred
> peak. Dance until, out of breath, our organism can receive oxygen in
> a way that it is not used to, and this ends up making us lose our
> identity, our relation with space and time.
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> Of course we can dance alone, if that helps us to get over our
> shyness. But whenever possible, it is better to dance in a group,
> because one stimulates the other and this ends up creating a magic
> space where all are connected in the same energy.
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> To dance, it is not necessary to learn in some school; just let our
> body teach us - because we have danced since the darkest times, and
> we never forget that. When I was an adolescent I envied the great
> "ballerinos" among the kids on the block, and pretended I had other
> things to do at parties - like having a conversation. But in fact I
> was terrified of looking ridiculous, and because of that I would not
> risk a single step. Until one day a girl called Marcia called out to
> me in front of everybody:
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> "Come on!"
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> I said I did not like to dance, but she insisted. Everyone in the
> group was looking, and because I was in love (love is capable of so
> many things!), I could refuse no further. I was ridiculous, I did not
> know how to follow the steps, but Marcia did not stop; she went on
> dancing as if I were a Rudolf Nureyev. Little by little I felt that
> my body was loosening up.
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> "Forget the others and pay attention to the bass," she whispered in
> my ear. "Try to follow its rhythm."
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> I paid attention to the bass. And the sensation of freedom grew at
> each instant, while the others lost interest and left us in peace.
> The more my body moved, the more the light of my heart revealed
> itself, and the more I learned - perhaps from myself, perhaps from
> the ghosts of the past. At the end of the night I was already another
> person - I had overcome a psychological block and found myself a
> girlfriend who would be very important in my life.
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> At that moment I understood that we do not always have to learn the
> most important things; they are already part of our nature. In youth,
> dancing is a fundamental rite of passage: for the very first time we
> feel a state of grace, a deep ecstasy, even if for the less tuned-in
> it is all just a bunch of boys and girls enjoying themselves at a  
> party.
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> When we become adults, and when we grow old, we need to go on
> dancing. The rhythm changes, but music is part of life, and dancing
> is the consequence of letting this rhythm come inside us.
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> I still dance whenever I can. With dancing, the spiritual world and
> the real world manage to coexist without any conflicts. As somebody
> once said, the classic ballerinas are always on tiptoe because they
> are at the same time touching the earth and reaching the sky.
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> © Translated by James Mulholland
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