If you’ve come to the end of the week and you’re in need of a little beauty or something to get your artistic eye enticed, watch this beautiful video, which combines dance with 2D motion graphics to show an artist’s struggle, before leading to creative ecstasy. The video, called Embrace, is visually breathtaking and gives a glimpse into all unseen work that gets put into a dancer’s performance.
I also love the quote at the end of the video, from legendary choreographer, Merce Cunningham:
“…Our creative ecstasy in dance comes from the possible gift of freedom, the exhilarating moment that this exposing of the bare energy can give us. What is meant is not license, but freedom….”
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
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| — | Lao Tzu (via wilddedication) |
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” -Lao Tzu
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
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| — | Lao Tzu (via arganesh3) |
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
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| — | The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho (via fromliterature) |
