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In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been.
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
I'm really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place.
My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.
Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.
There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two.
No person knows your body better than you. The world's most sophisticated and sensitive diagnostic apparatus is your own body's feelings.
For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.
The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.
I can't maintain the body of a 16-year-old anymore. That's just a really boring life to me. You really just cannot do anything fun, ever.
Every time that I hear the orchestra tuning up, I get chills all over my body. You know, catharsis after catharsis. It's better than sex!
We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.
The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.
It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.
We are not these bodies; we're neither our accomplishments nor our possessions—we are all one with the Source of all being, which is God.
Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.
We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.
Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.
When you think that you are done you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing.that's just the limits that we put on ourselves.
The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.
After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.
I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show!
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies.
At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.
The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.
A lot of people like to be supertiny, but I don't want a child's body - I want a woman's body that is extremely fit. It's so much sexier.
You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.
That's why I started amplifying my voice at all, to capture the little sounds I make when I am pushing my body physically, drumming away.
I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right?" -Sookie Stackhouse
Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.
Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans.
As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.
I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.
The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.
Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity.
Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.
Sickness is not just in the body, it could be in the mind, it could be in your intellect; it could be in the inhibitions of your intellect