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Quotes About Embodiment

Every manifestation of your body and mind is life.
~ Reb Anderson
Chris Evans has embodied Captain America as well as any actor has ever embodied an iconic pop-culture figure like that. I go back to Chris Reeve as Superman as the gold standard, and I think Evans is right there.
~ Kevin Feige
My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
~ Edie Campbell
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.
~ Rebecca Solnit
If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Having been liberated from manual labour and located in the sensory deprivation chambers of apartments and offices, this body has nothing left but the erotic as a residue of what it means to be embodied.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Furthermore, I argue that ethics is not simply about responsible actions in relation to human experiences of the world; rather, it is a question of material entanglements and how each intra-action matters in the reconfiguring of these entanglements, that is, it is a matter of the ethical call that is embodied in the very worlding of the world.
~ Karen Barad
What if we were to acknowledge that the nature of materiality itself, not merely the materiality of human embodiment, always already entails "an exposure to the Other"?
~ Karen Barad
Sam Turton is the true embodiment of the responsible artist. The honesty and integrity of the man comes out with every soulful note he sings.
~ Andrew Craig
Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades
~ Tom Morello
A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.
~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
~ Epictetus
The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.
~ George Lakoff
Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.
~ Jack Kornfield
The body learns through exaggeration and contrast
~ Wendy Palmer
You are the God. You are the embodiment of God. The moment you start to love everyone and everything, you are doing your divine duty.
~ Debasish Mridha
Man can embody the truth but he cannot know it.
~ William Butler Yeats
It is not enough to raise consciousness. One must lower the spirit into the earth to embody a change in things as basic as food, shelter, and livelihood.
~ William Irwin Thompson
This should be of no surprise when we realize that a common denominator of all traumas is an alienation and disconnection from the body and a reduced capacity to be present in the here and now.
~ David Emerson
You are God's dream with skin on
~ Heidi Baker
I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God's best way of getting to us. Revelation begins in the flesh.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Everything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain.
~ Bob Proctor
The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.
~ Jean Klein