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> [Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of movement that can afford our sensory organs greater scope in giving us knowledge of the world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-shusterman/improved-perception-of-our-somatic-feelings-not-only-gives-us-greater/)

Richard Shusterman

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## More by Richard Shusterman

> [Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-shusterman/improved-perception-of-our-somatic-feelings-not-only-gives-us-greater/)

Richard Shusterman

> [The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-shusterman/the-three-branches-of-somaesthetics-the-analytic-study-of-the-body-s/)

Richard Shusterman

> [Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-shusterman/somaaesthetics-can-be-provisionally-defined-a-the-critical/)

Richard Shusterman

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