"The body is the mirror where the secret world of the soul comes to expression." ~ John O'Donohue, from Anam Cara
In another part of the book Anam Cara, John O'Donohue writes "The body is in the soul." Not the soul is in the body. I agree. I don't distinguish between the spiritual and material, myself. It's all One. What does that mean other than that I'm a pantheist? ;) It means that your heart is God, as is your kidney (both of them ;) and your aorta, and your tense shoulders. I honor each part of you as sacred and as ways of knowing you.