"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience."
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"your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride."
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"The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free."
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"My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul."
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"The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us from the Universal Source with an intensity set by our desires and our will."
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"Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow."
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"If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja"
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"He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One"
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"Physical education for the body to be effective must be rigorous and detailed, far sighted and methodological. This will be translated into habits. These habits should be controlled and disciplined, while remaining flexible enough to adapt themselves to circumstances and to the needs of growth and development of the being."
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"I am always being asked to gain or lose weight, but I am at a point now where I don't care anymore. I love my body, I love my super-hourglass shape and I love showing it off."
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"I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body."
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"A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve."
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"You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology."
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"Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body."
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"All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us."
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"To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock."
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"Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential."
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"But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra."
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"In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere."
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"That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body."
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