Frank Shorter Quotes

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

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind.

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body

The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

My body is a projection of my consciousness.

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.

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.

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.

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

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind

When you lose your mind, you'll come to your senses.

As far as our physical form, the mind is a great temple. But it has a life span and it dies.

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

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

I can be very in my head, but I don't trust my head all that much. My head is crazy. My head will talk to itself all day and all night if I let it. And my heart is less nutty, but it's kind of like an overexcited child. I don't trust my heart all that much either. My body is like a good horse. I trust my body.

Every cell in your body is totally aware of how you think and feel about yourself.

I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.