"i should only believe in a god that would know how to dance"

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Shiva the world dancer. he's dancing on a little dwarf whose name is forgetfulness. that's ourselves, forgetful of our eternal identity with shiva.
one of his right hands holds a little drum. and the drum goes tic tic tic tic that is the tic of time which creates the world of time. and the world of time is like a veil thrown across the face of eternity. and we cannot penetrate it. eternity is not a long time, it has nothing to do with time, it is the dimension that is aclueded from our own experience by the veil of time.
his left hand holds a flame, and that is a flame to burn away the veil of time.
the lower right hand says "do not be afraid".
the other left hand is called the elephant hand or the teaching hand, it points to the lifted left foot, which means release. the right foot on the back of forgetfulness.
so this dance with creation, destruction and passing time, holds in the center the still point of the head, and this is what lives in us. we don't feel the weight of shiva, his foot on the back anymore than the little dwarf does. but he is there and his dance is to call us to that knowledge."

-Joseph Campbell

Don't be shy, dance.