There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the… — Candace Pert Copy Share Image
We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
But insensate Time is nothing if not cruel and heartless. It corrodes then destroys, so that the man you literally and figuratively… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body. — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies. — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment. — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within… — Saraha Copy Share Image
The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
Your body is an absolute mirror of your mind. As you worry, your body shows it. As you love, your body shows… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. Practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To lose sensibility, to see what one sees, As if sight had not its own miraculous thrift, To hear only what one… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental,… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
All changes in space which we see, hear, smell or taste are literally tactile impressions. All our senses are variations of our… — Rudolf von Laban Copy Share Image
“And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share Image
Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
