LISTENING TO THE BODY

Quotes:

Even the most unnatural is Nature; even the creations of the crudest philistines express some of Nature’s genius. Who does not see Nature everywhere, will see her nowhere in the right way.

Goethe

From. “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”

“What is the bravest thing you have ever said.”  asked the Boy.

“Help.” said the Horse.

Charles Mackesy

Nature! We are surrounded and embraced by her; powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her … We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. …She has always thought and always thinks; though not as man, but as Nature. …She loves herself, and her innumerable eyes and affections are fixed upon herself. She has divided herself that she may be her own delight. She causes an endless succession of new capacities for enjoyment to spring up, that her insatiable sympathy may be assuaged. …The spectacle of nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

Goethe

Start by doing what’s necessary;  then do what’s possible;  suddenly you are doing the… impossible.

Francis of Assisi

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Psalm 139:14

Can you choose to suspend your fixing, thinking and talking and choose to, day by day, gently and steadfastly listen?  Then one blessed day your body may choose to decide that it has a friend.  Perhaps your body will then choose to show you a glimpse of its feeling and needing, its awful pain and its awesome beauty.  LISTENING.  TRUSTING.

Chuck Britt

All that which ye potentially posses, can however, be manifested only as a result of your own volition.

Baha’u’llah (Gleanings from the writings of Baha’u’llah pg. 149)