"Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies . . . our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside."
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"Even though the body appears to be material, it is not. In the deeper reality, your body is a field of energy, transformation and intelligence."
"There are two components to biological information in the body, one is intention, the other is attention."
"The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better."
"The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind."
"I don’t have a body, I am a body."
"When you go out on the mound and you're confident in your body, you feel you can do anything."
"I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary."
"'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs."
"And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment."
"Jazz is the music of the body."
"You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age."
"Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies."
"A friend is simply one soul in two bodies."
"The soul is the form of the body"
"The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body."
"Your body is only the garage for your soul."
"Patch up thine old body for heaven."
"Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body."
"Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb."