Body eloquence: Nancy Mellon

 As you collaborate more consciously with the creative genius by which your bodily life evolves, thrives, and heals, your relationship with yourself and others will evolve with it. No matter with what satisfaction or dismay you see yourself in the mirror, you can perceive all your parts, and everyone else’s, with new wonder and respect. The body is far more than something attractive to be adored, or to be exercised in health clubs; more than a chemical genetic factory to be studied; more than an apparatus with parts to be taken out and replaced or repaired in a bustling hospital or clinic. I believe that the mechanistic view of the body is but one step in human awareness. (from "Body Eloquence" by Nancy Mellon)
Image: Polimnia, Muse of Eloquence. Charles Meynier. Francés 1763-1832.