Why ‘THIS BODY’? (excerpt)

My contention is that through kindly attention to the sensations of this body we can connect into a process of ever-deepening immersion into the reality of God at our centre and at the centre of life. I use the couplet ‘this body’ to try to indicate that there is not an ‘I’ that is in or that has a body, but rather that this body is me and is distinct but not separate from God. [more…]

Friday 4 July 2008

Identity

An assertion: my identity — my sense of self, of me — is rooted in the sensations of this body. If these sensations change, e.g. during serious illness, or as the result of an accident (as happened to me when I was knocked off my bike and broke my arm), then my sense of who I am changes too. There are times when we say, "I don't feel myself, today."
Posted by Julian Maddock at 20:45

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