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“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 grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.”

Feels Mind Philosophy Body Half Psychology Taste Rain Medicine Rounds Fishes Senses Bread Bows Grain Texture Petals Soma Embers

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“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 order to stay alive. Often they lose their primal enjoyment of flavors and odors and textures to the point of complete unawareness. And if ever they question this progressive numbing-off, they shrug helplessly in the face of mediocrity everywhere. Bit by bit, hour by hour, they say, we are being forced to accept the not-so-good as the best, since there is little that is even good to compare it with.”

“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 be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.”

Mind Reason Philosophy Body Psychology Seeing Built Medicine Senses Uncertainty No Reason Infinity Backwards Disputes Soma Recourse

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“But insensate Time is nothing if not cruel and heartless. It corrodes then destroys, so that the man you literally and figuratively looked up to with your chubby face, who scooped you up to cross the street and patted you on the head to laughter, will later look through you from a crooked hospital bed then blindly up at you while wearing makeup in a bargain casket. The people who now surround you generating warmth will disappear leaving only an empty chill; the body you own and the brain it houses will malfunction.”

“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 about anger, love, envy or even thought. It is relatively easy to learn to recognize the quality of movement than the quality of other factors.”

Knows Mind Philosophy Feelings Body Easy Quality Psychology Movement Capacity Medicine Envy Senses Factors Soma Anger Love

Author:Moshe Feldenkrais

“Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.”

Mind Philosophy Body Waiting Attention Psychology Demand Medicine Illness Senses Soma

Author:Jack Kornfield

“What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?”

Ifs Trying Mind Philosophy Body Happens Psychology Risk Danger Medicine Senses Dedicated Unnecessary Avoiding Soma

Author: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 are overwhelmed, your body shows it. As you are angry your body shows it. Every cell of your body is being allowed or resisted by the way you feel. 'My physical state is a direct reflection of how I feel', instead of 'How I feel is a direct reflection of my physical state'.”

Way Feels Mind States Philosophy Shows Body Worry Psychology Love You Reflection Direct Absolutes Mirrors Angry Medicine Your Body Senses Cells Overwhelmed Soma

Author: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.”

World Mind Philosophy Body Consciousness Struggle Psychology Students Medicine Meaningful Senses Mysterious Frail Soma Gifts Of Life

Author: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 which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses.”

Mind Firsts Mean Ends Philosophy Body Hands Seems Mother Born Psychology Five Medicine Errors Senses Certainty Vain Soma Five Senses First Hand Experience

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.”

War Philosophy Body Pain Psychology Empathy

Book:The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

Source: The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

“Software is not supposed to damage hardware. Mind is not supposed to damage body. But it is happening in most people. In some cases mind is so nasty that it is ready to kill the body instead of killing itself. When individual mind goes, universal mind takes over. Then peace dawns because body belongs to the universe.”

Mind Soul Body Psychology Suicide Mental Health Suicidal Thoughts

Author:Shunya