William Butler Yeats Quotes

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.

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

Think with your whole body.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.

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

When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.

Intuition was not just visual but also auditory and kinesthetic. Those who watched Feynman in moments of intense concentration came away with a strong, even disturbing sense of the physicality of the process, as though his brain did not stop with the grey matter but extended through every muscle in his body.

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

Let the flesh instruct the mind.

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

Women think with their whole bodies

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.

In order to trust your body as a guide, the first step is to begin to understand it.

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.

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

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

I think, as human beings, we at times overvalue the intellect and we undermine the body. I don't mean a body externally and the shape of a body. I mean the intelligence of a body, the memories that a body can store, how a body feels emotion, and how a body processes emotion.

My kingdom for a more embodied body

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

I am this space my body believes in.

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

Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your body.