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Quotes About Embodiment

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
~ Charlie Chaplin
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
~ Harry S Truman
The Jew – is the symbol of eternity…. He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind…. The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Practice corporeal politics.
~ Timothy Snyder
our relationship with Jesus, which he argued ultimately allows us to establish a relationship with the kingdom of God. This relationship is one of discipleship in which we learn to live our lives as Jesus would through progressively embodying and manifesting a Christlike character, which is attained through establishing a discipling relationship to Jesus.
~ Dallas Willard
embody what you teach, and teach only what you have embodied.
~ Dan Millman
You are learning," Serafim said, "how to think with your body—how to leave your mind and come to your senses.
~ Dan Millman
a book, a real book, language incarnate, becomes a part of one's bodily life.
~ Wendell Berry
Just so, an honest poet who is making a poem is doing neither more nor less than making a poem, I distracted by the thought even that it will be read. Poets, or some poets, bear witness as faithfully as possible to what they have experienced or observed, suffered or enjoyed, and this inevitably is instructive to anybody able to be instructed. But the instruction is secondary. It must be embodied in the work.
~ Wendell Berry
if we are going to meet God, we will meet God in the flesh.
~ William H. Willimon
become the physical embodiment of your soul so that you discover the woman you were always meant to be.
~ Christiane Northrup
Collectively they were an embodiment of Cool Britannia before the concept had even had a name. And this set of parents certainly is one body—it's impossible to speak to any of them individually. Group communication or deafening silence . . . your choice. Harriet can see why the other parents don't bother with the PPA.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
~ Henry Miller
The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.
~ leonard george
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh.
~ lessing doris
When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom.
~ Lesslie Newbigin
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
~ Jean Baudrillard
We know the world by and through our bodies.
~ Jeanette Winterson
For those who share my view that the Jews as a people have a right to self-determination, Zionism as a national movement of the Jewish people is the embodiment of this very right, which its opponents want to deny.
~ Angela Merkel
If people know anything about Russians, we do things really over the top. We wear high heels everywhere. We show up in the most extravagant outfits. I am just embodying how I was raised and what I grew up in. Some people might think we're extra; I just think we're ravishing.
~ Lana
Just picking her nose.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
After imagining and summoning up these embodied aspects of himself, he asked them questions, after which he found they often produced an image, and then the disturbance disappeared.
~ Unknown