Body Quotes - Page 42

The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.

When you coordinate your mind and body, you have unlimited access to the wisdom of the universe.

I had the classic 40 meltdown, I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.

In this world love has no color yet how deeply my body is stained by yours.

The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

We are made of stardust, our whole body consists of material that has been here before the beginning of time.

When you meditate, don't think about what is happening. Rather, let your awareness be seated in the tender warmth you feel in your body. If you do this, any meditation practice you do will be fruitful.

Don't think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it's been split into millions. When we sit in the mediation hall - that is unity

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

Do things that make your body and mind scream at you to quit, but don't.

I think many of us get separated from the mothership - our body - early on. I think the mothership is also the Earth, and life itself. Trauma separates us from that and dissociates us from our hearts.

We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.

That's right, karate... made my whole body a weapon.

Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.