"The body, the mind, and the spirit don't……" — Jane Smiley
"The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence."
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Jane Smiley
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102 Quotes by Jane Smiley
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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