Deane Juhan Quotes

#1. Touching hands are not like pharmaceuticals or scalpels. They are like flashlights in a darkened room. The medicine they administer is self-awareness. And for many of our painful conditions, this is the aid that is most urgently needed.

Deane Juhan

#2. The skin is no more separated from the brain than the surface of a lake is separate from its depths; the two are different locations in a continuous medium ... The brain is a single functional unit, from cortex to fingertips to toes. To touch the surface is to stir the depths.

Deane Juhan

#3. Movement is the unifying bond between the mind and the body, and sensations are the substance of that bond.

Deane Juhan

#4. By rubbing up against the world, I define myself to myself.

Deane Juhan

#5. The principals in elegantly simple. We learn to love by being loved, we learn gentleness by being gentled, we learn to be graceful by experiencing the feeling of grace.

Deane Juhan