The Dance of Life : book by Havelock Ellis.
... the individual man who therein expresses himself. The self that he thus expresses is a bundle of inherited tendencies that came the man himself can never entirely know whence."—Havelock Ellis , The Dance of Life (London: Constable, 1923), p. 175 . × The Bengali writer Buddhadev Bose remarked that great ...
... silences The Mighty Mother's dumb felicity. Half now awake she rises to his glance; Then, moved to circling by her heart-beats' will, The rhythmic worlds describe that passion-dance. Life springs in her and Mind is born; her face She lifts to Him who is Herself, until The Spirit leaps into the Spirit's embrace. ...
... the heart's hold; In that diamond heart the fires undrape, Living core, a brazier of gold. This was the closed mute and burning source Whence were formed the worlds and their star-dance; Life sprang, a self-rapt inconscient Force, Love, a blazing seed, from that flame-trance. ...
... out, sitting close to the fringe of a dense jungle, all on a sudden he found the entire forest of trees, shrubs and the few persons moving about, including himself, were all merged in a vibrating dance of life, everything was a-throb with an inner pulsation that filled his heart with a joy he had never tasted before.” The third experience was as follows: “As he was walking alone, by and by he came... describe, even an infinitesimal part of it — the entire universe was there, his universe.” No more may one wonder that Kalyan-da seemed happy and smiling — as would one who had “merged into a vibrating dance of his heart with a joy he had never tasted before.” He himself concludes thus: “Since that day many years have gone by as he trod and is still treading the path, which is unending, resolved to go through... serious implications. Not much did I know about him, prior to his life here in the Ashram. He came here way back in 1938 and was at once captured by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. He did have a heavy tilt (like the leaning tower of Pisa, for which he did have a remedy long, long decades ago. But there were no takers) towards this life (for which he had no remedy). He had two or three experiences, before ...
... four-kilo cast from neck to hip. Doctors were afraid that Sonal would not be able to dance again. Walk normally, yes, but dance as a top performer? Dance was the main thing in her life. She had sacrificed a lot to become a dancer. She had done it against the will of her family. Life without dance seemed impossible. She had to wait nearly five months in her cast till she could... circumstances were not the best. Even today not many families want their children to become dancers. Dance plus computer, dance plus job, dance plus marriage, dance plus, yes! But dance alone! No! I feel that, if you would have to sum up in one word Indian aesthetics, Indian art forms, and the Indian concept of life, this word is ananda. Ananda is the key to understanding India. And that is why so... knew that dance would give me such intense joy — it just burst out from me. So, at different stages of my life, dance acquired a different importance with different hues and shades. As of now, asking what dance means to me, or what is my inner relationship to dance — it's like asking what breathing means to me. Q: What are the qualities of body, heart and mind an Indian dancer should have ...
... has ceased And a lone splendour has awakened, Then auspicious Shiva appears To quench your terrible thirst. Now thou smilest and treadst with him The blissful Dance of Life! Mother, Mother, You've drawn me To see thee dance ! 23. Savitri, p. 83. 24. ibid., p. 84. 25. ibid. ,p.85. 26. ibid., p. 88. 27. ibid. , p. 89. 28. I am giving... Collected Poems and Plays, Vol. II, p. 284. 14. Savitri, p.67. 15. Cf. W.B.Yeats: O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance? (Among School Children) 16. Savitri.,p.72. 17. ibid. , p. 72. 18. ibid. , p. 74. 19. ibid. , p. 75. 20. Cf. Sri Aurobindo's A God's... imminent than God, and to explore reality, where God and love and beauty and life and death are seen in truer proportions, and when the desire of the heart is at last brought within sight of a goal." (On Poetry and the Modern Man, 1921). 9. The Life Divine, p. 151 10. The Mother, p. 1. 11. The Life Divine, pp. 833-46. 12. ibid ., p. 840. 13. ibid ...
... capacity, matter into spirit. 113 If Evolution is the adventure of consciousness, world-existence is the ecstatic dance of Shiva - of Kali - of Krishna. While, Kali's feet measure "in rhythms of pain and grief and chance. Life's game of hazard terrible and sweet", Krishna's dance will radiate "sweetness, laughter, rapture, love". 114 When Shiva turns to the Mighty Mother, Half now awake... sweetness of the honey in the comb. In a world paralysed by fear and hatred, the only countervailing power is the still small but potent voice of the Yogin-singer, whose mantric words are verily a dance of creative life and a nectarean promise for the morrow. IV When Collected Poems and Plays appeared in 1942 on Sri Aurobindo's seventieth birthday, readers were overwhelmed at once by... awake she rises to his glance; Then, moved to circling by her heart-beats' will, The rhythmic worlds describe that passion-dance. Life springs in her and Mind is born; her face She lifts to Him who is Herself, untill The Spirit leaps into the Spirit's embrace. 115 This ecstasy of world-existence is not the gods' alone but is also within reach of the realised man. Mortal ...
... my life is in thy hands: The luxury of fall is in my heart. ERIC Rise up then, Aslaug, and obey thy lord. ASLAUG What is thy will with me? ERIC This, Aslaug, first. Take up thy dagger, Aslaug, dance thy dance Of Thiordis with the dagger. See thou near me; For I shall sit, nor shouldst thou strike, defend. What thy passion chose, let thy freed heart confirm; My life and kingdom... ERIC Thou art my dancing-girl and nothing more? Assume this chain, this necklace, for thy life. Nor think it even thy price. She dashes the necklace to the ground. Thou art not subtle! ASLAUG ( agitated ) It is not so that women's hearts are wooed. ERIC Yet so I woo thee, so do all men woo Enamoured of what thou hast claimed to be. Art thou the dancing-girl of Norway still... his pride intends. What was it seized on me, O heavenly powers? I have given myself, my brother's throne and life, My pride, ambition, hope, and grasp, and keep Shame only. Tonight! What happens then tonight? I dance before him,—royal Olaf's child Becomes the upstart Eric's dancing-girl! What happens else tonight? One preys upon Aslaug of Norway! O, I thank thee, Heaven, That thou restorest ...
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