Quotes About Body

being where a waist should be instead of up under the armpits as present fashion decreed.

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

Only by discovering and loving the goddess lost within our rejected body can we hear our own authentic voice.

William Blake says the body is 'that portion of soul discerned by the five senses

What a paradox is there: flying higher into heaven, at the same time being forced to work deeper into the hell of my addiction, the hell of my own unconscious body.

The Goddess is the unspeakable wisdom that grows into the very cells of the body. She lives with this sacramental truth at her center: the beauty and the horror of the whole of life are blazing in Her love. She is dancing in the flames.

You think of yourself -- light, fast, free -- free of earth, free of bondage to your body. In your 'perfect' body, you are in control, addicted to the light that keeps you out of body. You're a swan maiden, addicted to wings, addicted to spirit. You refused to eat in order to fly.

Our Father in Heaven,' she said, 'comfort the souls that have departed with divine peace, and take them unto You. Grant their bodies soft and quiet rest in the earth till the Last Day, when You will reunite body and soul and lead them into heavenly joy there.

In appealing for Christian scholarship, the point is not primarily academic respectability, and certainly not the mindless pursuit of publication for its own sake that bedevils the modern university. The point is rather that the comprehensive reality of Christianity itself demands specifically Christian consideration of the world we inhabit, whether that consideration is of social theory, the history of science, other historical changes, the body, the arts, literature, or more.

It would take Western science centuries to develop a truly rational branch of thinking, one that recognizes that everything is connected—the body, the natural and spiritual worlds, the wondrous and the inexplicable and the irrational.

If religion is the opiate of the masses and Marxism the opiate of the intellectual, then cyberspace is the opiate of the twenty-first-century schizoid man, polarized between mind and body.

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Trillions and trillions of chemical reactions occur in your body every second. Every single one requires a helper or an enzyme, and each enzyme requires its own helper or coenzyme. Vitamins and minerals are the coenzymes essential to grease the wheels of our vast metabolic pathways.

These people are stuck in the one-disease, one-drug model of thinking. It is an example of reductionistic thinking that misses the whole point of how systems work—of how the body works.

Waist-to-Height Table WOMEN Ratio less than 35: abnormally slim to underweight Ratio 35 to 42: extremely slim Ratio 42 to 46: slender and healthy Ratio 46 to 49: healthy Ratio 49 to 54: overweight Ratio 54 to 58: extremely overweight/obese Ratio over 58: highly obese MEN Ratio less than 35: abnormally slim to underweight Ratio 35 to 43: extremely slim Ratio 43 to 46: slender and healthy

And food is the biggest "environmental" regulator of that complex system we call our bodies.

Again, carbs shift your body toward fat storage (anabolism),3 while fats shift your body toward fat burning (catabolism).

After jiu-jitsu, you will appreciate how well the body works without our even realizing or recognizing it. You will, however, have some insight into its extraordinariness when you have trouble wiping your bum because it hurts to straighten your arm. I guarantee at that point and time you will really appreciate what your body can do.

The eighty thousand or more prisoners who endure "solitary confinement" in U.S. prisons are adjudged victims of a slow assault on the dignity of the person, a disintegration of body and psyche—clearly, sufferers of torture.

I want to be part of a church that, as the full-orbed body of Christ, reflects the radiant beauty and attractiveness of God's love, grace, forgiveness, salvation, and hope, for this life and for an eternity of fellowship together with one another as well as with him!

It seemed to me that transhumanism was an expression of the profound human longing to transcend the confusion and desire and impotence and sickness of the body, cowering in the darkening shadow of its own decay. This longing had historically been the domain of religion, and was now the increasingly fertile terrain of technology.

The key to building distance in the long run is the ability of the mind to lie to the body — and be convincing.

It is therefore not implausible that there is a connection between the rhythm of the body involved in running and the presence of the brain activity involved in higher cognitive functions.

Not permitted to desire another man's penis, the bodybuilder phallicizes that which he is permitted to desire: his own body.