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"Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?"
"And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?"
"I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is."
"Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)"
"Cooling bodies gravitate and heat as they gravitate-heating bodies radiate, and cool as they radiate."
"We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is DIVINE LOVE and that is INFINITE."
"Focus on loving the life you have now in the body you’ve got!"
"Every thought you have affects everything in your body."
"You can't accumulate anything, because anything you get you have to give away. We all know this. We watch our bodies go through the aging process. We know we came in here with nothing, and we know we're going to leave with nothing. There's nothing to own. There's nothing to get. The only thing you can do with your life is give it away. The best, happiest moments in your life are always when you're giving something away."
"I don't think we die. I think our bodies leave, but we can never die. That which is never born, can never die. And that which never changes, can never die."
"A dead body revenges not injuries."
"We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body."
"If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?"
"A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown."
"I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb."
"While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be loosened in repose, Can rule by supernatural right Yet be but sinew."
"My, my. A body does get around."
"The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body."
"Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism."