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"The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists."
"E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared"
"Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body."
"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul"
"The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death."
"Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts."
"I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do, as by the things you do."
"Sex is so much more in the mind than in the body."
"What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over."
"Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul."
"Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body."
"I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body!"
"Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these."
"Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body."
"In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist."
"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."
"In love there are two things - bodies and words."
"Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind."
"Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth."
"Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized."
