Quotes About Embodiment

To cultivate mindfulness truly, we need to become fully integrated with our body once more

As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.

Form is never more than an extension of content.

Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers.

If it weren't for desire, the formless would not have come into form and engage creatively.

Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

I used to do a show in New York that was loosely based around celebrity impersonations. I know what it takes to embody someone.

For a moment I was disoriented, seized by panic; could a ghost embody itself through wavelengths, electronic dots, a picture tube? What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?

Through awareness of the body, we remember who we truly are.

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.

I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.

The French phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty says the body is not an object to think about. Rather, it is a grouping of lived-through meanings, which move towards equilibrium.

nous sommes invités, par le moment présent, à nous connecter avec l'intention d'incarner de notre mieux le calme, la pleine conscience et la sérénité ici et maintenant.

The moment you raised your sword, I felt that deep, innate loathing ignite within my core¦the unreserved resentment of human nature. You were the very embodiment of the loathing that dwells deep inside us. But I have to admit, we were once very much like you

What you seem to forget is that I'm not one of the embodiments of evil. I'm one of the embodiments of fear. That means I know what makes evil quake in the light of the sun.

William Blake says the body is 'that portion of soul discerned by the five senses

For God does not want to be believed in, to be debated and defended by us, but simply to be realized through us.

Commonly, in Japan, the crane is regarded as a symbol of peace. But for us, in the Sasaki family, it is the embodiment of Sadako's life, and it is filled with her wish and hope.

We must begin by learning what it means to have enough… to feel gratitude for having been born on a planet so rich in nature and gratitude for the water that makes our life possible. If you open your eyes you will see that the world is full of so much that deserves our gratitude. When you have become the embodiment of gratitude, think about how pure the water that fills your body will be. When this happens, you, yourself will be a beautiful shining crystal of light.

The body is our general medium for having a world.

Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself.

The flesh is at the heart of the world.