Body Quotes - Page 96

You can't enjoy life if you're not nourishing your body.

I do believe that we all are, fundamentally, divided creatures. Emotions split from intellect, spirit from flesh and far too often sexuality is disconnected from what we feel, and are, as total human beings. But how, for example, can anyone have an understanding of the virgin if they don't also have an understanding of the prostitute, the saint and sinner in one body?

I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping and destroying those malignancies that would otherwise consume us.

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.

God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.

My body is a compass - and it does not lie.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.

If we want our bodies to be healthier, we need to get off the salmonella, e-coli, mad cow, assembly-line toxic hell train! God I love that statement. What did I just say?

, and they could name a handful.

When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. No matter how much we search for it from the outside there is no way we can find it without delving into ourselves.

Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.

To die or not to die ... we really don't have a choice. We can therefore only take care of our life-body, until the fullness of time and being ends our existence on earth.

I've always embraced my curves since I was a teenie-bopper.

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

Not only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the relative plane and could do no more than we, for to attain freedom is all that can be done.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.