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Quotes About Body

Don't ignore your pain. Register, accept, then work with your own body to push through. Naming your pain . . . It's simply a device to help you identify and focus. If calling your pain Melvin makes you feel stupid, don't do it. Refer to it as Pain or don't call it anything at all. But acknowledge your pain threshold. Consider how your injury feels. Then work with your body to do what you need to do.
~ Lisa Gardner
An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
~ Stella Adler
The human body is always treated as an image of society.
~ Mary Douglas
The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.
~ Evelyn Glennie
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
~ Francis Bacon
Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.
~ Lin Yutang
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
~ C. S. Lewis
It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.
~ Merce Cunningham
Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential.
~ Slavoj Zizek
In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.
~ Geeta Iyengar
Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.
~ Saraha
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
~ Wayne Dyer
I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body
~ Paulo Coelho
Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.
~ Rumi
The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
What I believe, according to my own experience, is that a calm, peaceful mind is a very important element for sustaining the body in a balanced way.
~ Dalai Lama
You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.
~ F. Matthias Alexander
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
People suffer from pain and call it evil, yet in reality it may be growing pains of the Spirit-the changing of the body into a finer and more spiritual substance.
~ Henry Thomas Hamblin
The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.
~ John Calvin
Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect.
~ Lester Levenson
The flesh is as spiritual as the soul, and the soul is as natural as the flesh.
~ Jane Roberts