#physical

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#character #emotional #find #i #involvement

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#emotion #grief #life #pain #physical

The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time. ↗

— Lauren Ambrose

#because #doing #especially #experience #fun

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130) ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

#metaphysical-beliefs #mindfulness #piety #theism #transcendence

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#metaphysical #philosophy #taste #metaphysics

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. ↗

— Alan Watts

#duty #full #god #idea #infinity

In order to survive as a race, as a planet, you must learn to share light. There is no other way. ↗

— Joanna Gawn

#metaphysical #visionary #metaphysics

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#metaphysics #nonsense #questioning-mind #questions #theology

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dreams #faith #famous-quotes-from-classic-books #haiku #haikus

Ken brought my hand to his lips and kissed it. I'd been paying so much attention to Ken, I didn't know what happened during the game. I don't think anyone cared too much what the outcome was after Ken's at bat. "Do you know who won?" I asked Cooper, who automatically translated into sign language for Shawn. Shawn laughed his odd laugh and signed something back. He looked at Ken, who had an arm wrapped possessively around my waist. Cooper grinned. "Shawn says it looks like you did, Jordie. ↗

— Z.A. Maxfield

#gay #homosexuality #physical-therapy #homosexuality