"We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily."
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"Everything takes you back to yourself. When you get there, you know you never left. You only dreamt you left. You have never been other than that. You are only dreaming due to the idea of 'I am the body.'"
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"I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement."
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"One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves."
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"We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will."
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"The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism."
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"Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large."
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"Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart."
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"I got most of my confidence by having a mother who never said "I don't like this or this." It was just, "You've got to love what you have because it is the only body that has been given." I know that is where a lot of my confidence came from."
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"Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others."
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"It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right"
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"You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body."
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"The spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to ecstasy. Open to the spirit, and you will be transformed."
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"If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash."
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"Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit."
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"Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control. Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn't be affected by an incident unless you let it."
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"You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science."
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"Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom."
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"All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know."
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"She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul."
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