The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it i…

Alan Watts
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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales. ✨ Alan Watts (1951). The Wisdom of Insecurity, Vintage
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