“Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.”

“For Celia, her whole surround was animate, and each tapioca lump had a dense, nauseating little soul.”

“The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.”

“To this I replied, "I still think that my body is not merely a sensory appearance, for surely it came from my parents, who were its cause and condition."He said, "If you think that your body came from your father and mother, then what are the beginning and end of these parents? What are their source, their location, their final destination? Tell me!"I answered, "I think that they exist, but I am not aware of what they are. It seems to me that a physical body without parents is not possible."He retorted, "Consider this. Who are the parents of the body in a dream, in the bardo, and in the hell realms?" With that, I arrived at the decision that this body has never existed, being simply a sensory experience.”

“He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.”

“My nightmares relate all of man's inhumanity to man---to our willing acceptance of cruelty to the other animals. ”