Antonio Damasio Quotes

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

A mountain of evidence shows that our bodies are pushing, shaping, even leading our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. That the body affects the mind is, it's fair to say, incontestable. And it's doing so in ways that either facilitate or impede our ability to bring our authentic best selves to our biggest challenges.

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

To separate mind from body doesn't make any sense.

We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds.

The body is a vehicle for the mind, and that vehicle is how you travel through space.

We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.

Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining; rumple the one, you rumple the other.

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together.

You can't separate the mind and body. It's impossible.

Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

There is a definite correlation between the mind and the body.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your body.

Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno.

Treating the body is really about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic - every bit of it. No exceptions.

We exist solely because we have a body and a mind ? a mind that arises out of the body. If this were true, we would cease to exist after our body was gone.