When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.

Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life (ed. Harpercollins, 1992) - ISBN: 9780060165970