"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists."
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"The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it."
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"We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body."
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"The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation."
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"And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head."
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"The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body."
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"Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are."
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"To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul."
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"The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body"
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"My happy thoughts help create my healthy body."
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"I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around."
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"Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!"
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"Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies."
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"We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that."
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"This life is temporary, this body is temporary, but while I'm here I want to get as much out of it as I can"
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"Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too."
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"I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first."
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"Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium."
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"Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."
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"We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate-right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness."
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