Spiritual Embodiment Quotes together with Poetry

The Peace of Wild Things”
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Vacillation IV shares you an experience of spiritual awakening that clearly comes through the body. As a result you can declare. “I am blessed and can bless.”

from Vacillation – IV

W.B. Yeats

My fiftieth year had come and gone,

I sat, a solitary man,

In a crowded London shop,

An open book and empty cup

On the marble table-top.

While on the shop and street I gazed

My body of a sudden blazed;

And twenty minutes more or less

It seemed, so great my happiness,

That I was blessèd and could bless.

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In this episode we discuss:

Christine Caldwell’s new book, Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, & Waking Up in This Life

Bodyfulness happens when you look at embodiment as physical, psychological, and contemplative

8 principles of Bodyfulness and the 4 aspects in the practice of Bodyfulness

Difference between the stories that the body would tell and the verbal narrative we have laid on top of it

Bodyfulness is activism at its most basic level and how it can shift forms of activism

Obstacles to Bodyfulness include the oppression of the body by many societies, making our bodies and other bodies “wrong”, and Bodylessness, in which the body is seen as a project

An enlightened body and body wakefulness – being “awake” is a bodily experience not just in the mind

Notes from this Episode from Body Awake

What a joy to get to chat with Brooke Thomas, whose podcast the Liberated Body* may be familiar to some listeners here. Brooke and I talk about the subject/object paradox of both having and being a body, using felt sense as a navigation to begin and end projects, and a whole host of other topics we might camp under something like “embodied spirituality.”