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Our Wise Guide - Our Body Hello everyone Still no recording. Which is half unexpected, because we should've been better this week from the cold/flu we had last week. Well, that's not the case. Matilda is getting better, but her strength is still low. George has to behave even more quietly than last week, after the doctor diagnosed him with bronchitis. There is no doubt in our minds that such times of less activity and rest are essential. Our bodies are wise guides that take us to places that lie outside the sphere of our heads. It does not help to fight against those bodily messages. However, it is striking how difficult it is often for us to scale back and become quieter. How our inability to be busy, to finish things and to look back on a productive day plays into our identity and mood. How easily we feel guilty. What we use as criteria to justify our existence. Such a time of illness brings you back to the meaning and value of the spiritual truths that have become clearer to...

Suzanne Valadon - Maurice Utrillo as a boy, drying up the back I imagine myself walking on the beach of images next to the sea of words. Mostly I just listen, or look. Sometimes I stop to pick up what the sea has washed ashore. I keep my findings in a drawer and on quiet days I take them out and let them speak to me. At other times I feel their weight in my palm and run my fingers along their lines.  Lately I am fascinated by b eautiful descriptions in literature of the human body or lack thereof. ~ ~ o ~ ~ Mr. Duffy lived at a little distance from his body. ~ James Joyce She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season. ~ P.G. Wodehouse Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed. ~ Revd Sydney Smith Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed. ~ Blaise ...