“For the body, mind is that annoying boss who just never shuts up. He will shut up only when his boss, the soul, awakens and gives him a silent look.”
“Look, hasn t my body already felt like the body of a flower?”
“When you are older, you rule your body. It doesn’t rule you, anymore. You tell it what to do, and it does it.”
“She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body s surface of its terrible, basic importance.”
“Take a trip to the exotic landscape of your lover’s body.”
“I am older than your age and younger than your body.”
“They didn t realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn t sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.”
“There s no such thing as emotion. It s only body chemistry in action.”
“If it weren t for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.”
“Sound has a profound effect on the senses. It can be both herd and felt. It can even be seen with the mind’s eye. It can almost be tasted and smelled. Sound can evoke responses of the five senses. Sound can paint a picture, produce a mood, trigger the senses to remember another time and place. From infancy we hear sound with our entire bodies. When I hear my own name, I have as much a sense of it entering my body through my back or my hand or my chest as through my ears. Sound speaks to the sensorium; the entire system of nerves that stimulates sensual responce.”
“Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. It s just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it s not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we ve got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That s all I ask. And we haven t got a body.”
“He could never escape the jarring feeling that he and his body were still two separate entities with two separate operating systems. Maneuvering his body felt like driving with the emergency brake on, the low and constant growl of dragging a frame embedded with an unforgotten history of hate. He wished that he believed he would be better suited for a different body, but another body represented only another confinement, another set of parameters. What he craved was the kind of repair that would unite driver and car as one, make them synchronous. He wondered if this was even possible, or if everyone silently struggled with this duality. What do you mean? The only time I feel inside my body is when it is next to yours. Like right now.”
“Ara li cau el bolígraf i l ha de recollir de terra amb una coreografia assajada, ara es corda la cremallera d una bota de pell que li arriba fins a mitja cuixa, conscient d un cos que no és només embolcall de l ànima.”
“Rejuvenation of mind, body and soul happens during Meditation Practice.”
“I found ways to hide in plain sight, to keep feeding a hunger that could never be satisfied - the hunger to stop hurting.”
“Actually, it’s rather curious. We are face-to-face with one of the most complex theological issues. Does a foot, detached from its body…have an afterlife?”
“Rest to renew your body.”