Your Body Knows Better Than Your Mind — Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Zarathustra speaks to people who hate their bodies. He says they got it backward. Your body is not a prison for your noble mind. Your body holds a deeper self that your thinking mind serves.

Children say body and soul are two things. Wise people know the body is the whole self. Spirit is just one tool the body uses. Your loud ego brags about what it thinks. But the deeper self acts without boasting. It drives you to feel pain and joy so you can learn and move. Sense and spirit are only instruments behind that deeper self. The self laughs at the ego's proud prancings and leads it like a string.

People who despise their bodies have lost creative power. They turned against life and cannot grow beyond themselves. Their contempt hides envy of those who still create. Zarathustra will not follow their path of self-denial. He sees it as a dead end, not a bridge to becoming more human or reaching the Superman. When you ignore hunger, rest, or pain signals, you are fighting the very guide that could help you grow. He refuses to be their bridge. They want to succumb because they can no longer create beyond themselves.