"The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain."

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Source : Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.124, Open Road Media

Paula Gunn Allen

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“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.”

Source : "Fictional character: Luis Molina". "Kiss of the Spider Woman", www.imdb.com. 1985.
“There are no illegitimate babies.”
“Wealth covers sin - the poor / Are naked as a pin.”
“When you are blessing the sick, you beg of the Almighty, but actually you are not begging for anything, because from inside your being, energy is pouring into the other person. It is from a state of compassion, of compassionate meditation, that the healing activity of God, within the being, flows.”
“The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is "wrong" and arises from insular ignorance.”

Source : "R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams". Book by Ursula Vaughan Williams, p. 243, letter to Lord Kennet (1941), 1964.
“The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 30, 2014
“I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.”
“I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.”

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