Soma Quotes - Page 2

• The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Attitude, Philosophy, Medicine

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• 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.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Laughter, Philosophy, Men

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• 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. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.

  Tara Brach

  Philosophy, Acceptance, Compassion

  "Radical Acceptance of Desire" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2013.

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• 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. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

  Charles Jencks

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Medicine

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• Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Philosophy, Medicine, Three

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• Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.

  Ken Wilber

  Philosophy, Long Ago, Hands

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.121, Shambhala Publications

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• Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.

  Amanda Schull

  Mistake, Philosophy, Medicine

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• Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.

  Helen Fisher

  Mother, Philosophy, Medicine

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• Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Philosophy, Medicine, Mindfulness

  Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

  Anton Chekhov

  Powerful, Philosophy, Grief

  "A Dreadful Night". Short story by Anton Chekhov, November 3, 1886.

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• 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

  Philosophy, Mean, Medicine

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

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• Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Philosophy, Ideas, Medicine

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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• Energy is eternal delight.

  William Blake

  Philosophy, Medicine, Joy

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'The voice of the Devil'

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• The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

  Ernst Mach

  Philosophy, Men, Medicine

  Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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• The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Philosophy, Ideas, Medicine

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• The mind is inherently embodied.
  Thought is mostly unconscious.
  Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

  George Lakoff

  Philosophy, Medicine, Mind

  George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.3, Basic Books

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• At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

  Egon Schiele

  Philosophy, Flower, Medicine

  Erwin Mitsch, Egon Schiele (1988). “The art of Egon Schiele”

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• There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

  William Harvey

  Philosophy, Medicine, Perfect

  William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey (1984). “The Selected writings of William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey ; illustrated by Marc Yankus”

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• Philosophy is common sense with big words.

  James Madison

  Philosophy, Medicine, Common Sense

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• 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 to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

  Maimonides

  Philosophy, Distance, Medicine

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.123, Aeterna Press

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• Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

  Kevin McCloud

  Beauty, Beautiful, Philosophy

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• Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Change, Philosophy, Medicine

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• When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

  Virginia Woolf

  Philosophy, Medicine, Skins

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1291, Delphi Classics

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• If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Memories, Philosophy, Medicine

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.55, Penguin

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• The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Philosophy, Thinking, Medicine

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