Logo
Quote by Alexander Lowen
We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our br

We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss. – Alexander Lowen

Other quotes by Alexander Lowen
No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Breathing
category

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? – Mary Oliver

Category:
Breathing

What we call ‘I’ is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. – Shunryu Suzuki

Category:
Breathing

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

Category:
Breathing

To live is not breathing it is action. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Category:
Breathing

Random Quotes

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. – Shelby Foote

Category:
Poetry

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Letters (writing)

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. Its just not the way we really behave. – Tim Heidecker

Category:
movies

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures. – Ellen G. White

Category:
great