“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”
Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba
Source: Leaves of Grass
Christmas Day Discourse, Bombay 1970. page 136, US ed. of Kasturi's Sathyam Sivam Sundaram Vol 3.
“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”
Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba
Source: Leaves of Grass
John of the Cross (1542–1591) Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint
Explanation of Stanza 28 part 8
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom, Notes to the Stanzas
“All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to serve; the one we have in common with the Gods, the other with the brutes.”
Sed nostra omnis vis in animo et corpore sita est; animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur; alterum nobis cum dis, alterum cum beluis commune est.
Sallust (-86–-34 BC) Roman historian, politician
Source: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter I
Michel Henry (1922–2002) French writer
Michel Henry, Incarnation. Une philosophie de la chair, éd. du Seuil, 2000, p. 221
Books on Religion and Christianity, Incarnation: A philosophy of Flesh (2000)
Original: (fr) Ma chair n’est donc pas seulement le principe de la constitution de mon corps objectif, elle cache en elle sa substance invisible. Telle est l’étrange condition de cet objet que nous appelons un corps : il ne consiste nullement en ces espèces visibles auxquelles on le réduit depuis toujours ; en sa réalité précisément il est invisible. Personne n’a jamais vu un homme, mais personne n’a jamais vu non plus son corps, si du moins par « corps » on entend son corps réel.
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
Book I, 1.42-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I