"Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system."
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"The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind."
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"It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living."
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"Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body."
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"A healthy body attends to the pain of the weakest part."
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"The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen."
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"If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul."
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"We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell."
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"If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?"
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"Treating the body is really about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic - every bit of it. No exceptions."
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"The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal."
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"It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal."
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"No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion."
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"The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us"
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"The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is."
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"Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being."
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"The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification."
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"The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health."
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"It was then given me to know that the power of revitalization of my body was mine, and I, who had been pronounced dead by man, lived strongly in the body."
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"If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds."
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