Sublime

This book has laid out three core principles: 1. Wholeness is the inescapable truth of our reality. 2. Our ability to sense wholeness is our primary sense. 3. Our culture systematically disables that sense in us, leaving us out of touch with the reality of the self and the world to which it belongs.

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

Primitive survival is a matter of intimacy and not control.

When the body is liberated from its designated role as dumb beast, its natural spaciousness can be reclaimed by the breath.

The segregation of our thinking from our being is the primary wound of our culture

There is no self except in relationship to the other. The economic man, the rational actor, the Cartesian “I am” is a delusion that cuts us off from most of what we are, leaving us lonely and small.

Your fully embodied, undivided presence is the human experience of wholeness into which you were born.

Colleagues are exposed repeatedly every week to a space made safe by ground rules that invites them to truly be themselves. They learn to see each other in the light of their deep humanity, in the beauty of their strengths and vulnerability. The trust, empathy, and compassion that build up in the meeting expand well beyond the confines of the meeti

What the body most deeply understands is that it belongs to the world. To