Living, the whole body carries its meaning and tells its own story, standing, sitting, walking, awake or asleep.
It pulls all the life up into the face of the philosopher, and sends it all down into the legs of the dancer.
A casual world over-emphasizes the face. Memory likes to recall the whole body.
It is not our parents’ faces that come back to us, but their bodies, in the accustomed chairs, eating, sewing, smoking, doing all familiar things.
We remember each as a body in action…
Thus the stuff of the ages goes into man’s thinking,
is interpreted and comes out in movement and posture again.
Personality goes into structure—by denial or affirmation into person again.
It is an aspect of life in evolution.
~Mabel E. Todd
The Thinking Body
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