"The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body."
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"Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else."
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"If my soul exists without my body I am convinced all my clothes will be loose-fitting"
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"Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine."
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"Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted."
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"The body is the womb of the soul, a begging bowl for spirit."
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"Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations."
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"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
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"The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny."
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"Our bodies need real, fresh food to maintain health."
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"It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity."
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"Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing."
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"The body does not create the mind; the Mind creates the body."
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"I can read your body language like a conversation"
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"The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you."
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"He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him."
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"We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it."
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"Always know and remember that you are more than your physical body."
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"Whatever does not exist in the body can't be found in the universe, and whatever exists in the universe can be found in the body."
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"As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to to maintain the existence of Nothing."
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