Merleau Ponty

Quote below is from Merleau Ponty, le visible et le invisible, 1964 (1968)

The body unites us directly with the things through its own ontogenesis, by welding to one another the two outline of which it is made, its two laps: the sensible mass it is and the mass of the sensible wherein it is born by seggregation and upon which, as seer, it remains open. "Le Chiasme", P.136