Envisioning ourselves as more than the body:

"Our feelings of isolation and alienation from our fellow human beings are in part due to thinking we are nothing other than the body.  Delinking the sense of self from one's own corporality is an important step  in re-identifying oneself as part of a larger whole, a nexus of being that joins us together."  - Lama Marut, A spiritual Renegade's Guide to the Good Life, pp. 153-154.