Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
The practices that enable you to be present are practices that bring you back to the body and to what is felt through it.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
The experience of being is affiliated with feeling. The experience of thinking is affiliated with knowing.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
The segregation of our thinking from our being is the primary wound of our culture
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
tension diminishes sensitivity.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
When our thinking contracts from our being, it carries our sense of self with it.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
the body knows: the understanding that it belongs to the world, expresses the world, is held by the world and shares in all that happens to the world.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
We are teaching our children that it’s better to think with a portion of their beings than to think with the whole of their beings.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
As you increasingly honor the body’s sensations, you increasingly understand them to constitute a language of thought that is distinct from how the head knows.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
the whole of your intelligence is more astute than any partitioned portion of it could be.