The Body Remembers

"The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers.  Memory is lodged in picture and feelings in the cells themselves.  Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream."

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Photograph by Imogen Cunningham

What's in a Name?

"I could not lie anymore so I started to call my dog "God."  
First he looked confused, then he started smiling, then he even danced.  

I kept at it: now he doesn't even bite.  

I am wondering if this might work on people?"  

Tukaram (c. 1608-1649)
Artwork by Maira Kalman

Your Body as Choir

"Sing, my tongue; sing, my hand;
sing, my feet, my knee,
my loins, my
whole body.

Indeed I am His choir."

St. Thomas Aquinas
Artwork by Henri Matisse

”Within my body are all the sacred places of the world,
and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.”  

Saraha, East Indian Yogi, 8th Century
 

Photograph by W. Robert Moore, National Geographic

"I've seen again and again that the essence of healing emotional pain lies in listening to what hurts -- in both knowing how to listen to oneself and being listened to by another."  Miriam Greenspan

Art by Mary Cassatt