The body also has its privileges; and it will have them: they can’t be neglected over and over without effect. The body should be the spirit’s closest companion. some great people have failed to make it so: so it has become a fiends and has tormented them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
The vast majority of the ills we experience are straightforwardly recognizable to our own conduct… Our own actual body has an insight which we who possess the body need. We provide it orders which have neither rhyme nor reason. There is no secret about illness, nor wrongdoing, nor war, nor the thousand and one things which plague us. Live just and admirably. ~Henry Miller
Beyond my body my veins are imperceptible. ~Antonio P, Voce, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
