Quotes About Embodiment

Jesus is, for us as Christians, the decisive revelation of what a life full of God looks like. Radically centered in God and filled with the Spirit, he is the decisive disclosure and epiphany of what can be seen of God embodied in a human life. As the Word and Wisdom and Spirit of God become flesh, his life incarnates the character of God, indeed, the passion of God. In him we see God's passion.

Regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, everyone births things into reality.

We are more than our bodies, it is true; but we cannot be divorced from them. They are us, and the only way in which we can see one another. Perhaps the gods are above this, but in their mercy, they have given us the guise of bodies.

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.

When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.

Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

Do not imprison Christ in you. Let Him live, let Him manifest Himself, let Him find vent through you.

There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.

In broad terms, culture may be viewed as the symbolic construction of the vast array of a social group's life experiences. Culture is the embodiment, the chronicle of a group's history

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

The embodiment of mind leads us to a philosophy of embodied realism. Our concepts cannot be a direct reflection of external, objective, mind-independent reality because our sensorimotor system plays a crucial role in shaping them. On the other hand, it is the involvement of the sensorimotor system in the conceptual system that keeps the conceptual system very much in touch with the world.

The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form.

the ancient embodiment of good! It breeds intolerance, rigidity, a belief that because I am right, those who don't believe as I do are wrong.

Change means change. We may have all the insights, but if we do not incarnate them, they are all in vain.

The old mystics were fond of saying that we are capax Dei, that is, capable of receiving and embodying divine life.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet

We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.

That the one could intensify the other had never occurred to them; and since the embodiment came before the recognition of the truth, it seemed a discovery that belonged to them alone.

Our bodies are our essential connection to life.

I spend a lot of time exploring my body. Hang on, that doesn't sound quite right. What I mean to say is, I like to constantly be in touch with my own body. Okay, that's not right, either. My body is a wonderland. I don't even know why I just said that.

The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.