Soma Quotes
74 quotes by 69 authors
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
— Hannah Arendt
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Perception is reality.
— Lee Atwater
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We live on the leash of our senses.
— Diane Ackerman
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All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.
— Konrad Adenauer
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
— Ray Bradbury
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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
— Anton Chekhov
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Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and…
— Maya Angelou
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Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body,…
— Carl Rogers
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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 (aesthesis)…
— Richard Shusterman
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I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in.…
— Mitch Hedberg
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The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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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…
— Richard Shusterman
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Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to…
— Gautama Buddha
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
— William James
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In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life…
— Constantin Stanislavski
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Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body;…
— Socrates
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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 social…
— Richard Shusterman
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Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last…
— Alice Miller
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Nothing, in all of the Universe is more delicious than to be in this physical body allowing the fullness that is you to be present…
— Esther Hicks
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All changes in space which we see, hear, smell or taste are literally tactile impressions. All our senses are variations of our unique sense of…
— Rudolf von Laban
Who Wrote These Soma Quotes
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