29 Quotes by Moshé Feldenkrais

Standing is harder than moving.

What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery.

A brain without a body could not think.

People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action...

I believe that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality. They are not just parts somehow related to each other, but an inseparable whole while functioning. A brain without a body could not think.

Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles.

My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants.

Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.

No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function.