"So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore."
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"Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service of God. Blessed indeed are the obedient, for God will never permit them to go astray."
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"Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again."
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"The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent."
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"The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul."
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"We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping up against a herd of bodies/until one becomes home./Moments sweep past. The grass bends/then learns again to stand."
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"It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys."
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"The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words."
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"The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down."
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"Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours."
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"There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible."
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"Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do possess must inevitably be found in the thoughts we have when awake, rather than in our dreams."
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"The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature."
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"The hundred parts of the body are all complete in their places. Which should one prefer? Do you like them all equally? Are they all servants? Are they unable to control one another and need a ruler? Or do they become rulers and servants in turn? Is there any true ruler other than themselves?"
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"What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?"
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"Your body is a flower that life let bloom."
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"One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all."
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"LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy."
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"We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body."
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"Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center."
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