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"If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor."
"Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better."
"This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God."
"My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it."
"Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body."
"My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline."
"As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are."
"It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?"
"Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it."
"If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself."
"Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers."
"Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself."
"Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place."
"We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all."
"There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies."
"The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that."
"When you visualize, then you materialize. If you've been there in the mind you'll go there in the body"
"One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed."
"Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there"
"I-man say don't make jah body a graveyard for de dead animals."
