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Today's
quotation:
Remember
that the body is the temple of the soul. Those who
mistreat the body tend to mistreat the soul within. Observe vital
health laws, such as exercise, healthy diet, and self-control.
Susan Santucci
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Today's
Meditation:
These
bodies that we're using are extremely important to us, for
they are the vessels that allow us to experience
everything there is to experience on this planet.
The bodies provide us with sensory experiences that let us
know things like cold and heat, wetness and dryness,
textures and surfaces, illness and health, ecstasy and
agony. If we treat these bodies well, they do for us
everything we need them to do. If we mistreat and
abuse them, then guess what? They're going to be the
source of much of our discontent on this planet.
I
think that Susan's main premise, though, is very
important: if we mistreat the body, then we're
likely to mistreat the soul. If we don't try to keep
the one healthy, how likely are we to keep the other one
healthy? Personally, I would like to think that I'm
doing things that keep my spirit healthy-- helping other
people, looking for the good in life, sharing love as much
as I can. And I want to do this because the idea of
leading a good life is important to me, and if I neglect
my spirit and my body, then my life is always going to be
limited in scope.
If we
take care of our bodies well, they will serve us
well. That doesn't mean adopting a stoic lifestyle--
I eat quite a few sweets, to be honest, but I
do so because I know that I run a lot, and I'll be running
those calories off each day. If I didn't exercise a
lot, I wouldn't eat the sweets, though I would look for
something that I enjoy eating just because. I simply
wouldn't eat it to excess (chocolate comes to mind).
Our
bodies are in constant contact with our spirits. We
know when we haven't drunk enough, when we need to eat,
when we need to take it easy and favor one leg for a
while. It's important that we pay attention to those
messages and take them seriously, for we're not going to
get a different vessel to carry us through this
life. Take care of your body and many other things
will simply fall into place, as they well should.
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