Are we our bodies?

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To other eyes we seem to stand aloof as it were behind the wall of the body; and when we wish to make ourselves known, we go out as it were by the door of the tongue to show what we really are.

Gregory the Great, quoted by St. Thomas Aquinas, ST I, Q. 107, A. 1.

 

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