Toyo Ito Quotes

I know my body perfectly well.

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

Most people aren't in touch with their body and tend to live in their thoughts.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Something about being a dancer connects you to your physical body. It's primal, earthy, sexual energy by nature. You feel your body in a certain way. Channing is very much the same way. He's very in tune with that.

Our body awareness in the West is ridiculous.

When you have a sense of yourself in space, in your movement, in your muscles, you can express yourself through your body, your instrument. You learn so much about who you are and what your truth is.

My body is sometimes this thing I look at and think, 'What strange, alien thing grew around my consciousness?' It's like this weird fungus that's just there.

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

For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various forms, from promiscuity, to eating disorders, to performance art. And I think it wasn't until I got cancer, where I was suddenly being pricked and ported and chemoed and operated on, that I suddenly just became body. I was just a body. And it was in that, in that finally landing in myself that I really discovered the world in my body.

I think that as you evolve spiritually, automatically your body tells you what is acceptable for your body and what is not.

My kingdom for a more embodied body

Self-awareness includes awareness of your body.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

The body is not simply the combination of dance, muscles, body-building, strength and sex: it is a universe.

I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.

The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.

Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.

Ninety percent of the people don't realize that there is anything below the head. They think that the head is carried around by something very mysterious, and they're not aware that it's the body, something they should be in tune with.

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.

I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.