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"Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body."
"The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body."
"Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body."
"We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye."
"If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country."
"The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it."
"You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body."
"The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body."
"What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure."
"I have a woman's body and a child's emotions."
"Your cells are as depressed as you are, and your cells are as happy and frisky as you are."
"Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action."
"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged."
"Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body."
"One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else."
"We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others."
"We know nothing accurately in reality, but [only] as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon [the body] and impinge upon it."
"Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts."
"Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body."
"When you drink in nature through your senses, you deepen your awareness of the great silent intelligence flowing through all things. You nourish your mind, body, and spirit as you connect to the divine love of Being."
