Boris Pasternak, live not by lies https://t.co/Kn53pt6E4w

∼ The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, our conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child who, still whole in spirit, will a
... See moreJack Kornfield • The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace
Man in other people is man’s soul. That is what you are, that is what your conscience breathed, relished, was nourished by all your life. Your soul, your immortality, your life in others. And what then? You have been in others and you will remain in others. And what difference does it make to you that later it will be called memory? It will be you,
... See moreBoris Pasternak, Richard Pevear, • Doctor Zhivago
A man consists of body and soul. Thus often, especially in his youth, he is interested only in his body, but nevertheless, the most essential part of every man is not his body, but his soul. It is your soul that you must take care of, not your body. You must learn this over time, and remember that your real life is in your spirit, that is, in your
... See moreLeo Tolstoy • A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
The True Self is bound up with bodily aliveness.
Adam Phillips • Winnicott
To live in a state of fear is to live a life in a body that is tuned away from health, growth, restoration, happiness, and sociality.