Quote for Today: Stephen Fry
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I …
Quote for Today: Taisen Deshimaru
Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The …
Quote for Today: Sherman Alexie
“I don’t know if I ever told you,” my therapist said. “But I’m a birder. I love birds. And when they hit a window like that, or get hurt in …
Quote for Today: Leo Tolstoy
A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And once a deep wound …
Quote for Today: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Never have I thought so much, never have I realized my own existence so much, been so much alive, been so much myself…as in those journeys which I have …
Quote for Today: David Abram
We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth- our larger body- to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours (the tensions and terrors of our …
Quote for Today: Paulette Jiles
Outside, as she passed the kitchen window, she watched her breath appear before her in the lamplight and then it died away in moist clouds. This was the smoke of …
Quote for Today: Alexander Lowen
With each breath a wave can be seen to ascend and descend through the body. The inspiratory wave begins deep in the abdomen with a backward movement of the …
Quote for Today: Jay Woodman
Awareness can be quite sensual (which can add to your sense of feeling empowered). Think about how your body moves as you live your life, how amazing it is; think …
Quote for Today: Mary Oliver
As for the body, it is solid and strong and curious and full of detail: it wants to polish itself; it wants to love another body; it is the only …