“Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 122.
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“We identify ourselves with our mind and body. But we are neither the mind nor the body.”
Source: http://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/spiritual-luminary-dada-vaswani-mesmerizes-silicon-valley/article_54fe6fe4-194d-11e6-a37a-83023f64bbe9.html
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 59-60
“They might break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
On Living in an Atomic Age (1948)
Context: If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things — praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts — not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They might break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.
Quote in a letter of Dubuffet to Arnold Glimcher, as cited by Valery Oisteanu, Jean Dubuffet: The Last Two Years http://brooklynrail.org/2012/03/artseen/jean-dubuffet-the-last-two-years. The Brooklyn Rail, March 2012.
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Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“The coming together of rhythm and melody bridges our cerebellum and our cerebral cortex.”
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 45