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"The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body."
"History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny."
"Emotion is created by motion. Whatever you're feeling right now is related to how you're using your body."
"Some say they expect Illuminati take my body to sleep."
"What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that."
"I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer."
"The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched, pure and ever green,blissful area of our Self"
"One can see light above the head; that indicates a consciousness outside the body. But that itself is not the Truth-Consciousness or Vijnana. But much light descending from there illumines this consciousness."
"If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn."
"There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work."
"The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul."
"The body itself is to reveal the light that's blazing inside your Presence."
"Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!"
"If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long."
"Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul."
"Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit."
"I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body."
"I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive."
"Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that - as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up."
"My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms."
