"The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas."
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"I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me."
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"The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols.""
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"I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies."
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"When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough."
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"I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like"
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"Music is to the mind as air is to the body."
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"If you kiss a woman's mind, her body will follow."
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"A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies."
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"Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question."
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"The sense of pride I take away from doing something I know will be inspire women to feel confident about their bodies."
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"Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck."
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"Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods."
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"How boring just to be a body."
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"Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health."
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"Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?"
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"Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective."
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"At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void."
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"Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body."
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"To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought."
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