Soma Quotes - Page 5

• Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Dream, Philosophy, Self

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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.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Philosophy, Rain, Medicine

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.438, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Philosophy, Real, Medicine

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• 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.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Philosophy, Medicine, Envy

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

  Sam Keen

  Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

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• 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'.

  Esther Hicks

  Philosophy, Love You, Reflection

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• 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.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mother, Philosophy, Mean

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• If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

  George A. Sheehan

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soul

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through 1,000 billion junctions (synapses). The whole brain can be divided into subsections, or sub-networks, which communicate with each other in a network fashion. All this results in intricate patterns of intertwined webs, networks of nesting within larger networks.

  Fritjof Capra

  Fashion, Philosophy, Cells

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• Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Medicine

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• Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object control is the basis of one of the five most fundamental metaphors for our inner life. To control objects, we must learn to control our bodies. We learn both forms of control together. Self-control and object control are inseparable experiences from earliest childhood. It is no surprise that we should have as a metaphor-a primary metaphor-Self Control is Object Control.

  George Lakoff

  Philosophy, Self, Should Have

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• Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. Practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and through your embodied activity. Intrinsic to practice is your conscious participation with your life. Engagement is the conduction of your free and open awareness through your activities, whatever they may be.

  Robert McNamara

  Philosophy, Moving, Practice

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• Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Reality, Squares

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• All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.

  Pema Chodron

  Philosophy, Character, Medicine

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• Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.

  Alan Cohen

  Philosophy, Medicine, Trying

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• Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment.

  Steve Hagen

  Philosophy, Smell, Medicine

  Steve Hagen (2011). “Buddhism Plain and Simple”, p.112, Tuttle Publishing

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• We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

  William Godwin

  Philosophy, Medicine, Unhappy

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• We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organ—with no side effects.

  Deepak Chopra

  Philosophy, Medicine, Target

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• There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Philosophy, Hands, Medicine

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• For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

  George Lakoff

  Philosophy, Real, Medicine

  George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.26, Basic Books

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• Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aesthesis) and creative self-fashioning. It is therefore also devoted to the knowledge, discourses, and disciplines that structure such somatic care or can improve it.

  Richard Shusterman

  Appreciation, Philosophy, Self

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• I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too... I tried to taste it, but it did not work'.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Philosophy, Humor

  "Strategic Grill Locations". Live Album by Mitch Hedberg, September 7, 1999.

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• The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Art, Philosophy, Medicine

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.174, Routledge

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• Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of movement that can afford our sensory organs greater scope in giving us knowledge of the world. Besides augmenting our own possibilities of pleasure , such improved somatic functioning and awareness can give us greater power in performing virtuous acts for the benefit of others, since all action somehow depends on the efficacy of our bodily instrument.

  Richard Shusterman

  Philosophy, Skills, Medicine

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• Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.

  Gautama Buddha

  Philosophy, Winning, Self

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