- “Living in our heads, we feel separate from the body-and so we similarly feel separate from the world. We experience the world in a subject/object duality – on that estranges us from our environment and obliterates the companionship of the Present.”
- “When we live in our heads, we experience them as the center of our intelligence.”
- “Living in the head, we see the brain as the sole organ of our intelligence. So whatever has no brain is deemed incapable of intelligence.”
- “When we live in the head, we feel the body as something we ‘have’.”
- “Our disconnection from the body’s intelligence carries an implicit value judgment that it is inferior, not worth listening to, second class and incapable of worthwhile insights.”
- “If how we relate to the body sets the stage for all other relationships, then how we relate to the world won’t fundamentally change until our relationship with the body does.”
pgs. 43-47
Radical Wholeness by Philip Shepherd