The body is a resonator; attuning to the energies of the world, it knows them.

The most difficult thing in the world is to question an assumption you’ve never consciously made—and the Story hides such assumptions in our language, our architecture, our customs, our institutions and our very neurology.

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.

The qualities of ‘paying close attention’ and ‘gentleness’ are preconditions for the process of re-sensitizing the body’s intelligence.

My overriding concern is with wholeness. If an idea remains unintegrated, it will thwart your wholeness—standing like a road sign between you and the world it purports to represent. When an idea is integrated, on the other hand, it will be reborn as a new sensitivity to the world. Integration is what your body’s intelligence specializes in. It is

The exclusive emphasis on exteroceptors in our culture places great value on what the head knows and demeans by omission what the body knows.

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.

Original Wisdom is another book about a European encounter with an aboriginal tribe. In this case, the European is Robert Wolff and the tribe is the Sng’oi of Malaysia. The book’s subtitle—Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing

He uses objective knowledge to empower himself, not others. His currency is ‘insider information’. By contrast, we might understand self-knowledge as a world-centered understanding of the self. The insights of self-knowledge are offered to you by the kinship of the world to which you belong. When your attention is surrendered to the world without