#iri

Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that. You're dancing spirit. ↗

— Judith Jamison

#because #bigger #body #dancing #end

When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#because #charles #christopher #compassion #completely

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life. ↗

— Emmett Kelly

#back #battles #done #gives #going

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#bringing #character #complete #conflict #create

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#because #faith #i #i am #journalist

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#american spirit #emerson #energy #moral #optimism

It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#health #humanity #inspirational #life #love

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality. ↗

— Rich Little

#i #interested #kid #mannerisms #more

Suddenly a feeling swam over her with a mighty strength. The feeling was both overwhelming and peaceful, linking her to some cosmic and eternal force as the earth around her became more vibrant and alive. It was as if heaven and earth, past and present, were all one in an instant. ↗

— Mike Ericksen

#experience

In my mind, past, present and future became a blur as I stood in the middle of the celestial room, in the middle of forever. It was as if I were to take a rope that went on forever in both directions and cut it anywhere then the cut would always be exactly in the middle. And if I cut it twice I would have a beginning and an end, but eternity would continue in both directions. ↗

— Mike Ericksen

#mormon #spiritual-experience #experience