Soma Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

  William James

  Philosophy, Law, Medicine

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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