When your intellect is concentrated on the love of God you will pay little attention to visible things and will regard even your own body as something alien. (Maximos the Confessor)

I hear much more of Plato than Jesus in this calculation.

It suggests a God who disdains His own creation. That is not the God of scripture.

If any Christology has value, the body is held in honor. God was made manifest in a human body. It was the body that was tortured and died on the cross. It was a resurrection of the body.

Yes, the body can also distract. The visible world can be temptation, idol, or worse.

But to deny the physical universe, is to be alienated from the wholeness of God.