✦  "Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time…" — Coolio (1963–2022)  ✦  "Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God." — Rumi (1207–1273)  ✦  Self-Actualization through the African Renaissance  ✦  Nurture the Focus · Seek Stimulation · Awaken the Cosmic Body  ✦ 
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S · U · M · M · A · R · Y — The Seven Gifts of Dance

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PREPARE yourself to diligently Nurture the creative capacity for Seeking Stimulation.
  • PPure dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech; a dancer is like a devoted monk.
  • RRealistically, your body may not be a national shrine — yet through dancing you may appeal to the world.
  • EEnnobled by dance, one becomes a soul of the hour who has appeared at the moment of deepest need.
  • PPatterns drawn by dance are the most appealing and lofty attempts to enter the rhythmic pulse of Life.
  • AAffluent dancing is not merely for fun but a living art; it transforms emotion into thought and unites them.
  • RReeling in the dance, you will find yourself move so lightly that everything around you fades away.
  • EEmbodying the gesture and sound of one's outstanding vitality, a consuming dance oozes true spirit.
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REALISE that Nurturing your innate quest for Seeking Stimulation is within your power.
  • RRadical connection between music and dance is a harmonious accord — a synthesis of ideas made visible.
  • EExistence does not relent in affirming: whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.
  • AA body swayed to music is a brightening glance; you cannot separate the dancer from the dance.
  • LLearn from the Biblical David, who danced before the Lord with all his might and undivided spirit.
  • IInvesting your psychic apparatus in the dance results in the most cathartic enjoyment humanity offers.
  • SSerious dancing is a contradiction — dancing simply is, and no grades ought to be imposed upon it.
  • EEven when you fail to find happiness in general Life, you will never fail to taste its fruits in dancing.
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EMPOWER yourself to Nurture your deep-rooted freedom for Seeking Stimulation.
  • EEntertaining oneself through dance is wholly subjective — it cannot be compared to performing for others.
  • MMost rigid drills amount to entering a convent where frivolity is banned and merciless discipline reigns.
  • PProficiency in professional dance is not achieved easily — it demands consistent toil and sacred devotion.
  • OOrchestrated and lasting success depends in large measure upon individual initiative and inner exertion.
  • WWith wholehearted joy alloyed to sincere delight, simply leap and shimmy to the music of your soul.
  • EEmulate only yourself; you need no trainer's approval — you are not for hire, you are for the cosmos.
  • RRobustness is the sacred goal — never accept to be prettily diminished; go boldly into utter aliveness.
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MEDIATE your choice to Nurture the inescapable prerogative of Seeking Stimulation.
  • MMost arts like poetry are reflective — they stop to think; dance is immediate and perpetually becoming.
  • EEnacted choreography is like gardening; unlike painting it does not stay — it blooms and must be re-seeded.
  • DDancing finally disintegrates: like a garden, roses rise in splendour and by evening they are honourably gone.
  • IIntimate dance augments the sense of flowing nothingness — the rapturous loss of being at the centre.
  • AA bountiful dance is Nature herself, charmed by art; practise not merely the steps — study the passions.
  • TThrilling in dance, you experience the wordless joy of freedom and the profound blessing of self-awareness.
  • EEffect of dance on the soul: it creates striking beauty even from within the ruins of a vile circumstance.
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INDULGE yourself in Nurturing your unexplored ability towards Seeking Stimulation.
  • IIn Life you may have consumed many remedies — ultimately, dancing will reveal itself as your best medicine.
  • NNo law or force can keep the psyche within confinement when it is revelling in a genuinely soulful dance.
  • DDance must look like the music; if you see music only as accompaniment, you have not truly heard it yet.
  • UUnfortunately, many gifted young souls are put off dance by false beliefs — dissolve those myths and move.
  • LLoving to dance intimately may be transformed into a vocation that sustains the African Renaissance spirit.
  • GGeorge Bernard Shaw described dance as "a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire" — and he was right.
  • EElaboration of dance is the representation of the unspoken — meaning wrought from posture and sacred gesture.
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UTILISE your infinite potential for Nurturing the compulsion of Seeking Stimulation.
  • UUsually, beauty in dance is confused with comfort — yet its truest beauty is the soul rising past ease.
  • TThe ultimate purpose of dancing is simply to wake up to the very Life you are living — wholly, here, now.
  • IIt is glorious once one gets the mind out of the body's way and allows the body to act of its own accord.
  • LLoathe any attempt to over-debate the dance — it strips the movement of its natural mystery and cosmic depth.
  • IIndeed, dancing is more than shadows made to the measure of an idea — it is Life made briefly eternal.
  • SSoberly conscious dancing immerses you in a sovereign interior world no outsider is ever privileged to enter.
  • EEngaging in dance requires superb sensitivity, emotional expansiveness, and the courage of creative contemplation.
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MONITOR forces that militate against your will to Nurture the act of Seeking Stimulation.
  • MMost of a dancer's gestures are signs of things invisible — this is why dance so gloriously bypasses rationality.
  • OOver and above the pleasure of the senses lies what the dance signifies — its sacred, unrepeatable display.
  • NNo intellectualism should discourage you from the pleasurable, healing, ancestral act of free dancing.
  • IInsist on being your own referee in all matters of personal dance; compare yourself to no other living soul.
  • TThe principle: between balance and unbalance, between fall and recovery — therein lies the scope of all dance.
  • OOnly a single step throws the body off balance; the next, compensatory step restores the covenant of motion.
  • RRead the moment's mood — for "if you dance at every wedding, you will weep at every funeral."
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