## Highlights - Such an agile body, capable of lightning-quick transformations—floppy then precise, always deft, full of buffoonery and deadly serious in its commitment to each gesture. It gallops, swaggers, tip-toes, and falls gently backward into the embrace of space. Scrambling or gliding to standing, it grimaces. The softest leaps, the most preposterous gestures, it happily cavorts before slowing to stillness, a dynamic tranquillity. The flexibility, the unpredictability of its attitudes draw us toward it. It gazes back at those who view it with a generous invitation to be looked at. ([Location 74](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07M8RNWCT&location=74)) - As part of her training, Hay projects the existence of an observer who is watching her exploration of bodily cellular consciousness. Hay further projects a second observer who watches the first. Hay’s moving body is thus watching itself moving and watching itself watching itself. ([Location 236](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07M8RNWCT&location=236)) ## New highlights added January 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM - once you have that experience of the presence of life, don’t hang onto it. Just touch and go. Touch that presence of life being lived, then go. You do not have to ignore it. “Go” does not mean that we have to turn our back on the experience and shut ourselves off from it; it means just being in it without further analysis and without further reinforcement. Holding onto life, or trying to reassure oneself that it is so, has the sense of death rather than life. (Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, The Heart of the Buddha) ([Location 325](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07M8RNWCT&location=325)) - Spend one night a week in candlelight. ([Location 372](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07M8RNWCT&location=372)) - How many dance students dance alone uninterruptedly for at least forty minutes daily, outside of rehearsing, choreographing, or physically stretching? Why is this not a four-year requirement for every college dance student? How else can a person develop an intimate dialogue with the body? ([Location 375](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07M8RNWCT&location=375)) - There are three “what if” components to the “I” who dances. What if • “I” is the reconfiguration of my body into fifty-three trillion cells at once? • “I” practice non-attachment to each moment? • “I” know nothing? ([Location 381](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07M8RNWCT&location=381)) - I accept the fact that I cannot attain a perfect practice and instead use my energy to remember to engage the practice. In this way, I create futures I cannot achieve and then practice being here as the means for completing a day’s work. ([Location 392](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07M8RNWCT&location=392)) ## New highlights added February 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM - Praying became a dialogue with all there is. Praying arose in the same manner as my other dance exercises. I am alone dancing and for a few moments my body is caught in an aching sense of depth and connection. I want to know I can revisit here, and so the desire to articulate my experience momentarily replaces the dancing. ([Location 1174](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07M8RNWCT&location=1174))