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MY BODY IS A WONDERLAND
Spirituality & Health
|January/February 2025
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. —Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
KELLY ISOLA is a teacher, Unity minister, and consultant who is certified in various leading-edge models of both organizational and human development. She is the coauthor of Who Have You Come Here to Be? Visit kellyisola.com.
EACH WEEK I AM ON A ZOOM CALL with other spiritual leaders. We never have an agenda; we simply talk about what's alive for us. On a recent call the topic of “the body” came up, and I was shocked to hear how many people don't behold our bodies as something to be glorified, praised, or seen as equally as valuable as their spirituality. For decades I have heard many, including me, say they don't believe this, yet I listen to what we say and watch what we do.
This story is from the January/February 2025 edition of Spirituality & Health.
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