Soma Quotes

74 Soma quotes by 69 unique authors

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms. — Abdul Kalam
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object… — George Lakoff
Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. Practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and through your embodied… — Robert McNamara
Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes… — Michel de Montaigne
We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena.… — Tara Brach
The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes.… — Charles Jencks
All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability… — Pema Chodron
Play like dreams serves the function of self realization. — Donald Woods Winnicott
The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body. — Carl Jung
Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains in our lives.… — Daniel J. Siegel
The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the… — Hilda Doolittle
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in… — M.F.K. Fisher
Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must… — Michel de Montaigne
We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought... We know much more about movement than we do… — Moshe Feldenkrais
Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention. — Jack Kornfield
What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk? — Sam Keen
Your body is an absolute mirror of your mind. As you worry, your body shows it. As you love, your body shows it. As you… — Esther Hicks
We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life. — Bryant H. McGill
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience… — Leonardo da Vinci
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. — Malcolm Gladwell
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind… — Alex Grey
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. — E E Cummings
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently… — Denis Diderot
Philosophy is common sense with big words. — James Madison
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit… — Maimonides

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