Quotes About Body

You've got to stop listening to that tiny hysterical voice inside and start listening to the messages your body's been sending for weeks now. The hysterical voice is exactly that. Hysterical. It's highly emotional. It doesn't know the facts, and it's preventing you from seeing and believing them.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.

When you carry pain and do not release and let go of the past, your body will faithfully show you the results of your repressed feelings. Just as facing your fears is the best way to overcome them, you can also deal with your deepest feelings by acknowledging their existence.

Chaos brings about a state of reorganization when utilized properly. Time is collapsing, and the energy is becoming larger and larger. You have come here to use that energy first. You will make pathways of consciousness as you pull the energy into your body that will assist others so that they may not have to go through what you go through.

If you're unhappy, something important is going on. When your body hurts, it needs attention. When your heart hurts, it needs just as much attention. Your mind knows what you've been taught, but your heart knows who you really are.

Besides, life was not precious, for what was the body after all, but carrion, and the sojourn on earth but a halt on the way to eternal life?

The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.

Power is the exercise of superior force against a body that resists. Suppress the idea of resistance, and the idea of power disappears.

As those things affording animal pleasure are necessary to the well-being of the body, so are those things yielding intellectual or moral delight necessary for the perfecting of the spirit.

Like a mighty army moves the church of God; Brothers, we are treading where the saints have trod. We are not divided, all one body we, One in hope and doctrine, one in charity.

I have never given my soul to the keeping of an earthly body, And so I can sing at all times and seasons.

For a body of dust is a limit to the loving of a soul. It sees a face and finds it fair, forgetting the myriad who are unseen.

Imagination has great power. If you make a picture in the mind, the vibrations of the body may adjust to it if the will is directed that way, as in thoughts of health or sickness.

Give up the stories you've made up about what's "true" about your physical potential and just be with your breath and in your body, feeling what you feel. Give up trying to collect things in your practice. Give up the thought that whatever is happening within your body right now should not be.

We dress far too heavily. The fact is, that we would be a much healthier people if we wore less clothing. Ladies especially wrap themselves up too much, with the result that their blood does not circulate freely.

Whenever you are playing or singing music, and you notice you're in a trying state, stop trying, and focus your awareness on a single element of your movement at a time. Observe your body, and watch it subtly shift to a more relaxed and accurate kind of performance.

It was an ugly day. It was an ugly room. Except for the body.

Because challenge is the key to maintaining vitality of mind and body!

Can I borrow your face for a few days while my butt is on vacation?

Getting old.... Not so limber, dear friend, time for the bone factory? The little blue van. Your hands are covered with tiny pepperoni. Your knees predict your face. Your back stabs you, on the left side, twice a day. The belly's been discussed. The soul's shrinking to a microdot. We're ordering your rocking chair, size 42. Would you like something in Southern pine?

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

T]hese instances are enough to show, that the body can by the sole laws of its nature do many things which the mind wonders at.

each will form universal images according to the conditioning of his body.