reading the body

dragonapples:

Another favorite child hood program I want to share.

Not only did I learn how the belly dance, but she’s living proof you don’t have to be thin to be a sexy belly dancer.
Just look at her! She’s one sexy and gorgeous belly dancer!

It is in Dutch, yes, but if you look good at her movements, you’ll learn how to belly dance too.

Since my senses, being several, are not myself, they can only be objects.

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception (via environing)

There is no meaning. What’s the meaning of the universe? What’s the meaning of a flea? It’s just there. That’s it. Your own meaning is that you’re there. We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about.

—Joseph Campbell (via iwritewordsgood)