"The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and social life; the pragmatic study of methodologies to improve our body-mind functioning and thus expand our capacities of self-fashioning; and the practical branch that investigates such pragmatic methods by testing them on our own flesh in concrete experience and practice."

-- Richard Shusterman

#Philosophy Quotes #Self Quotes #Practice Quotes

“Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.”

Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf
“... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by their own efforts, the things they require. Whenever they find it possible to take advantage of the constructive labors of others, this is the path of least resistance. The plant does the work with its roots and its green leaves. The cow eats the plant. Man eats both of them; and bacteria (or investment bankers) eat the man. ...”
“The world will be balanced when we are balanced.”

Source : Tarthang Tulku (1978). “Kum Nye Relaxation”, Dharma Pub
“We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.”
“I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children. I've felt that need to want to raise a child. It's a creative urge. But you can express that creative urge in other ways.”

Source : "Matt Dillon Has Marriage On His Mind" by Amy Bonawitz, www.cbsnews.com. July 20, 2006.
“Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .”
“Sicilians, Calabrians, Neapolitans - there were real differences between them, and then all of a sudden they're all living in the US, and then they're all Italians.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.”

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