Susi Ferrarello Quotes

“I can refer to my body in plenty of ways. I can consider my body to be a machine that brings me wherever I want.

I can look at it as a burden that prevents me from doing what I really want to do. It can be my business card through which others can like me.”

“In the long run, disembodied thoughts generate a disembodied being which is a big problem for us because a disembodied being does not have a body that can help to put in practice the projects or ideas that come to mind.”

“Our living body is in fact our bodily compass — or as phenomenological philosophy calls it, our center of orientation — that tells us at each given moment what matters here and now.”

“Our living body is there to remind us what we are in that moment and what we can do in that moment with what we are. Our living body is our center of being.”

“The body is a wonderful source of meaning. It does not matter if it is young or old, ill or healthy.

At any time of our life it tells us what it is in the world that it is worthwhile to explore. It tells us what we can do with what we have.

Closing the door to all these meanings is an immense loss that we do not want to call upon ourselves.”

“We are embodied when we are aware of this wide array of possibilities that our living and biological body offer us to fully live our life.

The joy of being alive comes exactly from this deep awareness: We can be. This awareness is one of the apex moments of feeling embodied.”