“I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.” KnowsTryingI CanBodyNaturalKnow HowImagineGuitar Author:St. Vincent
“Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth” IfsGivingBodyMightHappensImagineBirthBedCapacityLaborPregnancyEcstasyChildbirthGiving Birth Author:Christiane Northrup
“It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.” IfsWayImportantBodyFallProcessPracticeImagineAchieveDyingWindowSkinsDistanceTrainYour BodyOne WayWheelsEmptinessKnivesDetachmentNumbnessPiercingsTorsoGirl InterruptedImagining Yourself Author:Susanna Kaysen
“Imagine wave after wave of joy passing through your whole body. As each wave passes through your body, feel that all worries, tensions, anxieties and problems are being washed away.” FeelsWholeProblemBodyJoyWorryImagineAnxietyWaveYour BodyPassingPassingsTensionVisualizationPassing Through Author:Frederick Lenz
“Don't think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it's been split into millions. When we sit in the mediation hall - that is unity” ThinkingBodyMillionsImagineIntentionUnityHallsImagine ThatSplitsMediation Author:Frederick Lenz
“We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.” BodyEvilPrinciplesImagineOughtSubstanceGod LoveCherish Author:Thomas Aquinas
“Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.” TryingChildrenWholeBodyPainMotherHellImagineMereFingersSpreadSurfaceYour BodyTouchingImagine ThatFractionsFingertipsStoves Book:The Rector of Justin Source: The Rector of Justin
“Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.” PeopleIfsDreamBodyArtistOpportunityImaginePaintingEatingIntroducing Author:Ferran Adria
“One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.” WorldHumansPlayBodyRealityAbleImaginationExistenceImaginePossibilityOceanDareOrgansFar AwayContinentsIdealismHuman BodyHuman Imagination Author:Terence McKenna
“Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.” MenYearsSelfBodyPainSufferingFatherLiteratureGrowsGrowing UpImagineMouthsAbuseBasesDown AndSilentTerrorLegsTraumaYour BodyHorribleImagine ThatPassiveFemininityAnother ManCoveringUnspeakableSuffering And Pain Author:Catharine MacKinnon
“If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.” IfsMenDoeSoulReasonCharacterBodyBeliefImagineImpossibleAtheismSubjectsProveEvidenceIndependentPositive AtheismJustifiedDisbeliefScrapImpossible ThingsResidence Book:Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays
“I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books ... It is no accident, I think, that books and nature (as we know it) may disappear simultaneously from human experience. There is no mind-body split.” ThinkingKnowsWayMindHumansMayI CanBookBodyNatureImagineAccidentsDisappearSplitsHuman ExperienceMind BodyNature Love Author:Andrea Dworkin
“I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.” NeedsFeelsBodyPastRememberDeathDesireCoursesNamesFearPeaceRealizingDifferencesCasesImagineDangerFutureShapesSafeComplexesProtectionYour BodyVulnerableTimelessTimelessnessUnsafeRemembering The Past Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.” BodyWishLosesLossImagineKeysWeightWeight LossVisualizationLose Weight Author:David Viscott