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Bless
your body always.
Speak no word of condemnation about it.
Rebecca
Beard
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Our
body is a machine for living. It is organized for that,
it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it
defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it
by encumbering it with remedies.
Lev Tolstoy
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My body has taught me many things, all of them
filled with soul: how to dance
and make love, mourn and make
music; now it is teaching me how to heal.
I am learning to
heed the shifting currents of my body--the subtle changes
in
temperature, muscle tension, thought and mood--the way a sailor
rides the wind by reading the ripples on the water.
Kat Duff
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William Blake says the body is "that portion
of Soul discerned by
the five Senses." I live with that
idea. I sit and look out
my window here in Canada and the
autumn trees are golden
against the blue sky. I can feel
their "food" coming into my eyes
and going down, down,
down, interacting inside, and I fill up
with gold. My soul
is fed. I see, I smell, I taste, I hear, I touch.
Through the orifices of my body, I give and I receive. I am
not trying
to capture what is absent. It's that interchange
between the
embodied soul and the outside world that is the
dynamic process.
That's how growth takes place. That
is life.
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Many
people treat their bodies as if they were rented
from Hertz--something they are using to get around in
but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.
Chungliang
Al Huang
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The
body has its own way of knowing, a knowing that has little
to do with logic, and much to do with truth, little to do with
control,
and much to do with acceptance, little to do with division
and analysis and much to do with union.
Marilyn Sewell
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Take
care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see
through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is
clouded.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
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| I see my body as an instrument rather than
an ornament.
Alanis Morissette
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If anything is sacred, the human body is
sacred.
Walt Whitman
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Your body is precious. It is our vehicle
for awakening. Treat it with care.
The Buddha |
| When you coordinate your mind and body, you have unlimited
access to the wisdom of the universe.
Koichi Tohei |
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The
human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office,
where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the
tools
and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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My
body is so important to me. My face, my arms, my legs,
my hands, my eyes, everything. I use everything I have.
Monica
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In
Extremis
I saw my toes the other day.
I hadn’t looked at them for months.
Indeed, they might have passed away.
And yet, they were my best friends once.
When I was small, I knew them well
I counted on them up to ten
And put them in my mouth to tell The larger from the lesser. Then
I loved them better than my ears,
My elbows, and heart.
But with the swelling of the years
We drifted, toes and I, apart.
Now, gnarled and pale, each said, j‘accuse!—
I hid them quickly in my shoes.
John Updike |
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body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.
Christopher
Reeve |
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To
keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise
we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
The
Buddha |
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The body is the soul's house. Shouldn't we
therefore
take care of our house so that it doesn't fall into ruin?
Philo Judaeus |
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Your body!
Our bodies carry ancient wisdom. We literally live within a
temple
of intuitive and instinctive wisdom. Sometimes we pay
attention
and access body wisdom; but unfortunately, the aphorism "Mrs.
Smith
lived a short distance from her body" is sadly true for many
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