"T h e D a n c e"

as a metaphor


The links below are all excerpts from writings saved and collected from many different sources. The theme they share - describing the universe in terms of a "Great Dance" - is one I find particularly beautiful and inspiring.

From "Perelandra" by C.S. Lewis

From "The Greater Trumps" by Charles Williams  

From "The General Dance" by Thomas Merton  

  From "The Joyous Cosmology" by Alan Watts

  From the "Cornwall Carol" - a folksong