Welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast.

This is episode number 148.

I am your host, Noah Rochetta, and today I'm going to talk about the Dance of Life.

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I'll start out this podcast episode with a quote from Maya Angelo.

She says, Everything in the Universe has rhythm.

Everything dances.

I've been thinking a lot about dance this week.

Perhaps first and foremost because dance is a very integral part of my life.

My wife owns a dance studio, my kids all dance in dance classes and this week we're preparing

for dance competitions.

And perhaps some of you may know this, some of you may not, but dance was a very important

part of my life in college.

I was a ballroom dancer, a competitive ballroom dancer and I competed with a team and we

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