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"The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me."
"To be no part of any body, is to be nothing."
"Chiropractic works in harmony with the basic healing forces of the body, whereas the allopathic, western medical establishment doesn't have nearly as holistic a vision."
"For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born."
"The way the parts of me sometimes disagree, it's a wonder this body doesn't shatter."
"Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body."
"The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted."
"There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep."
"The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism."
"Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too."
"We are far more than our bodies and personalities. The inner spirit is always beautiful and lovable, no matter how our outer appearances may change."
"I won a lot, crashed a lot, and broke just about every bone in my body, but I gave it everything I had"
"It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet."
"A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun."
"The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief."
"From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!"
"The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent."
"You Can't Rest on Your Laurels. Your Own Body of Work Is Yet to Come."
"A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare."
"No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul"
