Parabola Magazine

our bodies are in us

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds. *** We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us. —Ruth St. Denis, (January 20, 1879 – July 21, 1968) was a modern dance pioneer, introducing eastern ideas into the art. Photograph: Ruth St. Denis in The Revelation of the Goddess from Omika, 1913
We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.
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We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.
—Ruth St. Denis, (January 20, 1879 – July 21, 1968) was a modern dance pioneer, introducing eastern ideas into the art.
Photograph: Ruth St. Denis in The Revelation of the Goddess from Omika, 1913