“Our shoes carry our body, so we polish them; our body carries our soul, so we clean the body, but, what about our soul”?”

“It was a romantic tale saying we were more than our bodies our soul lives on after death. We shed the outer body but the important bits the soul and heart lives on for eternity”

“Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.”

“Our soul can't be free from this body until we are ready to leave our emotions behind.”

“The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way.”

“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.”