There is an Indian proverb or axiom that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but, unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person. – Rumer Godden, A House with Four Rooms

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? – Katherine Mansfield, Bliss and Other Stories