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"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."
"Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit."
"The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized."
"Be the Inner Spirit that is you. And relish in the creative moment. But don't try to hold to anything that has been created in the moment - including your body. And when you find that place, there is peace beyond description. Because then you accept that you are the eternal being that you are."
"The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body."
"Laughter is a symptom of spirituality. Laughter is the flow of love coursing through your body. Laughter is the nectar of present moment awareness. Invite more laughter into your life and relish the magic in every moment."
"My mind says one thing, but my body says another. Thanks a lot, Indian food and beer."
"The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one"
"Tidal rhythms have an effect on our physiology.... When we feel out of sorts, our body is out of sync with the body of the Universe. Spending time near the ocean, or anywhere in nature, can help us to synchronize our rhythms with nature's rhythms."
"Let your body take care of you."
"Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex."
"Because the body is the end product of intelligence and how that intelligence shapes your reality will shape the reality of the body."
"I found the secret of life to be body placement."
"My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves."
"The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body."
""not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming"."
"As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body."
"Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do."
"The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian."
"Feed and strengthen your body. Fear is physical. When you lift weights or go for a sprint, that energy flows back into your body and restores you to certainty."
