When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.