"And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body."
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"Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity."
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"People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age."
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"The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body."
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"Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It's good for the body and it's good for the soul."
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"Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet"
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"This is the essence for every human being to realize that who they are, essentially, is far more than the physical body and is far more than the mental body, the psychological makeup, the psychological "me" body. Who they are is far deeper than that."
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"The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay attention to or place values on spoken or written language, then we are ruling out a large area of human language."
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"My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul."
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"I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear."
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"Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly."
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"You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul."
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"Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone."
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"The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks."
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"Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding."
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"Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow."
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"Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you."
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"Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you."
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"Self-awareness includes awareness of your body."
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"The body is holographic; therefore, when you change one biomarker you influence them all."
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