"The body is your earth; you are rooted in the body.  Your consciousness is like a tree in the body.  Your thoughts are like fruits.  Your meditations are like flowers.  The body supports everything that you are doing.  You love; the body supports.  You hate; the body supports.  You want to kill somebody; the body supports.  In compassion, in love, in anger,in hate - in every way - the body supports you.  You are rooted in the body; you are nourished by the body.  Even when you start realizing who you are, the body supports you.  Don't kill the body.  Don't be a masochist, don't torture it.  It is your friend; it is not your enemy.  Listen to its language, decode it's language, and by and by, as you enter into the book of the body and you turn its pages, you will become aware of the whole mystery of life.  Condensed, it is in your body.  Magnified a millionfold, it is all over the world.  But condensed in a small formulat, it is there present in your body. 
Decode it there first."  Ecstasy, the Forgotten Language by Osho

"It is dangerous to restructure people simply because the restructuring goes along with a  physical ideal or some theory of health.  The term "normal" cannot be generalized.  Each individual has his or her own norm...Process is a matter of what the Chinese call Tao.  Timing a change in the body is not up to the therapist, but rather up to the person's body indications."    Working with the Dreaming Body by Arnold Mindell

"Indigenous healers have taught me that the quality of life depends upon body sensations that are linked to dreams and the environment, to what I call the shaman's body.  According to medicine people living in native settings around the world, and to mystical traditions, the shaman's dreaming body, when accessed, is a source of health, personal growth, good relationships, and a sense of community.

The shaman's body (or dreamingbody) is a name for unusual experiences and altered states of consciosness that try to reach your everyday awarness through signals such as body symptoms and movement impulses, dreams and messages from the environment."   The Shaman's Body by Arnold Mindell

The source of this energy is physical, rooted in the basic chemistry of the body.  Self-cultivation refines this energy for spiritual attainment.  Enlightenment, for a follower of the Tao, is therefore a psycho-physical achievement:  It is a state of being rather than mere intellectual understanding.

Once the energy is awakened through special exercises and meditations, the follower of the Tao knows how to draw this energy upward.  The force begins in the genitals and rises up the spine.  On its way, it nourishes the kidneys, nerves, and blood vessels.  When it passes the base of the skull, the nervous system and the lower parts of the brain are stimulated.  Reaching the crown, this river of energy opens its entire subconscious potential of a human being.  Descending downward, it nourishes the eyes, the senses, the vital organs.  Cascading toward the navel, it returns us to our original state of purity.  From there, it returns to the loins again, ready to be drawn into another circuit.  Just as all existence operates on a continuum between gross physical matter and the most subtle levels of consciousness, so too does the follower of the Tao utilize all parts of the body, mind and spirit for spiritual devotion."

"Man is in the body but is not the body.  The body is beautiful, the body has to be loved and respected, but one has not to forget that one is not it, that one is just a resident in the body.  The body is a temple; it is a host to you, but you are not part of it.  The body is a contribution from the earth; you come from the sky.  In you, as in every embodied being, the earth and sky are meeting; it is a love affair of earth and sky."  Osho

"Keep walking, though there's no place to get to.  Don't try to see through the distances.  That's not for human beings.  Move within.  But don't move the way fear makes you move. 

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened.  Don't open the door to the study and begin reading.  Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." 
by Rumi