Oliver Sacks Quotes

There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

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

My kingdom for a more embodied body

We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily.

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and legs. I occupy a particular point in space. No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously.

To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

The body is our general medium for having a world.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on.

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: "I have made visits to the earth in my body, but it's always been as a visitor."

Feed and strengthen your body. Fear is physical. When you lift weights or go for a sprint, that energy flows back into your body and restores you to certainty.

Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.

When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

I can only describe it as: the whole experience was imprinted on my body. And when I started to write it, it just came from such a very, In The Body of the Worldvery physical... it just came from my body. I don't know how to explain it better than that. I guess my head was transmitting it. It was a very, very physical experience writing this book.

Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.

The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.

Connecting to the feelings in your body brings you back into present-moment awareness.

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