"Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance."

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Source : George Leonard (2009). “The Silent Pulse”, p.40, Gibbs Smith

George Leonard

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“There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.”
“If your plan isn't working, adjust your plan. Never give up.”
“Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.”
“The difficult thing was deciding what to leave off! I just ultimately tried to strike a balance between what was interesting to hard core fans, and what was exciting to first timers and what I liked.”
“I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.”

Source : Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky”, p.89, Simon and Schuster
“A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.”

Source : "Gil Scott-Heron: More Than a Revolution" by Andrew Nosnitsky, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2012.
“We always have the potential to rise. Rise out of our slump. Rise out of our negative thoughts. Rise out of our comfort zone. Rise out of our complaints. GET UP AND RISE. Rising is a choice that's one powerful thought away.”
“The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.”

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