[Tango-L] Surrender: Trying again

[Michael]

I'm sorry. I made some errors. The corrections are in
capitals.

Michael
Obviously must have been thinking of O. and N. while
proofreading


> Sergio wrote eloquently about surrender yesterday. I read
> his message a few times because I got hung up on the word
> "surrender." 
> 
> He wrote "In A.Tango the woman won't be able to surrender
> to her partner, the dance and the music unless she can
> surrender to herself first." and "It is not possible to
> allow the dance to proceed without relinquishing conscious
> control and surrendering to the inner life of that
> creative moment."
> 
> I understand what he means. However, I offer an alternate
> expression, from my teacher, Joe. "Before we can embrace
> others, we have to FIRST BE able to embrace OURSELVES."
> 
> Before we can accept another person's passion, we have to
> be able to accept our own passion and be able to give that
> passion to the other person. Without passion, you can't
> get to the spiritual level of tango, which is the
> apotheosis of my favorite tango expression:
> 
>                                   4 legs
>                                   2 bodies
>                                   1 heart
> 
> I asked Joe "How will I know when I've arrived." He said
> "You won't have to ask. You'll know!!
> 
> Michael Ditkoff
> Washington, DC
> Regretting I'll miss this month's NY all night milonga and
> to dance with O. and N, the women who taught me what the
> above expression means.
> 
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