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Charis Wilson Artist, Writer
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"I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for."

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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul."

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William Blake Poet, Painter
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"Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain."

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Randall Wallace Screenwriter, Producer
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"I believe that God is carrying us whether we know it or not and is always present. I love what C.S. Lewis said - "You don't have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body.""

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