“Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance”
Quoted by Orson F. Whtiney, Life of Heber C. Kimball (Salt Lake City: Kimball Family, 1888), 322
Attributed to Joseph Smith, Jr.
“If I could tell you something, I would tell you it all”
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“I suppose he could have said this more gently, but what would be the point?”
Source: The Chronoliths (2001), Chapter 15 (p. 189)
Speaking on March 8, 1985 at the American Film Institute; as quoted in "Hollywood Honors Man Who `Danced Joy'" by Paul Rosenfield, in Los Angeles Times (March 9, 1985)
“I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.”
New York Times interview (1985)
Context: I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. I can correct it and tell them what they have done after they have done it, and what it means to me. But I don't say, "Be fearful here," "Be angry here," because I think that is intrusion.
Variant: One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
