Soma Quotes

74 quotes by 69 authors

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue. — Konrad Adenauer
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder. — Ray Bradbury
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. — Anton Chekhov
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
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
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
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
The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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
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
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change. — William James
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
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
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
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
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
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

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