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"He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye."
"The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise."
"Disease is not of the body but of the place."
"Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb."
"Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance."
"Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for"
"Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others."
"I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body."
"It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason."
"I speak two languages, Body and English."
"Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul."
"I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime"
"Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and Light upon Bodies for heating them, and putting their parts into a vibrating motion wherein heat consists?"
"Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana."
"How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!"
"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers."
"Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park."
"I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene."
"When i feel tense, I remember to relax all of the muscles and organs in my body"
"The face is the soul of the body."
