Those of us who do not inhabit our flesh, who do not have the deep satisfaction that our bodies can give, are always banging at the door of ourselves Stanley Keleman

We are conceived and born with these incredibly soft,juicy, and pliant containers we call bodies.  We experience ourselves and the world through them. We shape ourselves through bodily experiences as we grow.  All the joy and pain and minute mundane happenings that life presents us are processed and expressed through our bodies. 
Christine Caldwell, Getting Our bodies Back

In Africa, to dance is to breathe.  To dance is to be alive, to be in touch with the rhythm of the universe. Thomas Kane

It was brought up in our discussion that there had been a famous editorial in an anti-American newspaper in Indonesia which commented that America was a land of dollars, gadgets and bombs, and that only when Martha Graham danced there under State Department auspices, did Indonesia discover that America had a soul. Walter Terry

By dancing within the seclusion of darkness we discover parallel realities where solutions to seemingly unsolvable problems are possible.   Wilbert Alix

The body says what words cannot. Martha Graham

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. Graham

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. Friedrich Nietzsche

If you cannot find it in your own body, you will  not find it elsewhere. The Upanishads

The call of the God experienced in Christ is simply a call to be all that each of us is- a call to offer through the being of our humanity, the gift of God to all people by building a world in which everyone can live more fully, love more wastefully and have the courage to be all that they can be.  That is how we live out the presence of God. God is about living, loving and about being.  The call of Jesus is thus not a call to be religious. It is not a call to escape life’s traumas, to find security, to possess peace of mind.  All of these things are invitation to a life contracting idolatry.  The call of God through Jesus is a call to be fully human, to embrace insecurity without building protective fences, to accept the absence of peace of mind as a requirement of humanity.  It is to see that- God is the experience of life, love and being who is met at the edges of an expanded humanity. John Shelby Spong

If you have a body- you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package. Anne Lamott

The human body with all its sense is the primary location of the impulse to acknowledge the glory and power of God. Emily Saliers