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In Praise of Dancing

St. Augustine

I praise the dance, for it frees people

   from the heaviness of matter and binds

   the isolated to community.

I praise the dance, which demands everything:

   health and a clear spirit and a buoyant soul.

Dance is a transformation of space, of time, of people,

   who are in constant danger of becoming all brain,

   will, or feeling.

Dancing demands a whole person, one who is

   firmly anchored in the center of his life, who is

   not obsessed by lust for people and things

   and the demon of isolation in his own ego.

Dancing demands a freed person, one who vibrates

   with the equipoise of all his powers.

I praise the dance.

O man, learn to dance, or else the angels in heaven

   will not know what to do with you.

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