“We cannot imprison the mind in the brain. The mind is in every cell of our body and also extends into the whole universe.” -Deepak Chopra
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What is Written on the Body
“Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.” -Frank Gillette Burgess
» Read More...Mind and Body
“If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.” -Eckhart […]
» Read More...Nietzche on Art
We have art in order not to die of the truth. -Friedrich Nietzche
» Read More...Rumi on Wounds
The wound is the place where the light enters you. -Rumi
» Read More...Your Body Breathes
Observe your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you are no longer conscious of your own ideas of self-identity. Who, then, is breathing? The collection of information that you mistakenly think is you is not the protagonist in this drama called the breath. In fact, […]
» Read More...Sensitivity
There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight. And when these two come together you get a fairytale, a kind […]
» Read More...Forgiveness
Forgiveness is…. the refusal to be possessive about the original wound; it is the act of letting the wound have its own life so that it can heal, mostly by re-imagining itself, and not by our telling the story again and again from the point of the one who carries […]
» Read More...Going Home Again
I was convinced you can’t go home again. Now I know better. Nothing is more untrue. I know you go back over and over again, seeking the self you left behind. -Helen Bevington
» Read More...The Magic of Language
A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by “mere” words.
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