A: I guess I need to qualify or modify that. The body is spirit, too. For me there is no materiality to apparent materiality. In our bodies, 3 billion cells a minute are dying and being reborn. So our bodies look solid, but they aren't. How many minutes have just gone by and how many cells have died and been reborn? We're like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can put your fingers right through it. Our bodies look like things, but there's no thingness to them. We're forces of God. —Li-Young Lee More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Q: You have said that "the spirit is the body." What do you mean by that? —Unknown More about this quote Tags: spirit body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is the illusion of the healthy and protected. Of sedate lovers. . . . For the body has emotions it conceives and carries through without concern for anyone or anything else. —Louise Erdrich More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I know of no woman — virgin, mother, lesbian, married, celibate, whether she earns her keep as a housewife, a cocktail waitress, or a scanner of brain waves — for whom the body is not a fundamental problem: its clouded meanings, its fertility, its desire, its so-called frigidity, its bloody speech, its silences, its changes and mutilations, its rapes and ripenings. —Adrienne Rich More about this quote Tags: women self-image body problems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. —Mark Twain More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other. —Candace Pert More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable. —Ntozake Shange More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are, as one would expect, all sorts of reasons why we abandon our bodies, and why we now fear to reclaim them. . . . On a superficial level, we refuse to reclaim the body because we just don't think there's any reason to — it seems a big to-do about nothing. On a deeper level, we fear to reclaim the body because it houses, in a particularly vivid and living form, strong emotions and feelings which are socially taboo. And, ultimately, the body is avoided because it is the abode of death. —Ken Wilber More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? —Robert Brault More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passersby to come and love us. —Robert Louis Stevenson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see. . . . So the fantasy corners of America, . . . you've pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books. And you live in your dream America that you've custom-made from art and schmaltz and emotions just as much as you live in your real one. —Andy Warhol More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely . . . on the strength of their own thought. —Lewis H. Lapham More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
History assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. —Will and Ariel Durant More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Food. Water. Shelter. Air. Sleep. Societal inflation has expanded need into greed. Suddenly the basic survival needs also include a cellphone, cable tv, and French-manicured fingernails. . . . We've become the absolute biggest whiners of all human history with the absolute smallest justification for whining. —Charlie Diekatze More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. . . . Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in. —Bill Hicks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email