Quotes About Body

Unprocessed intense emotion goes underground and creates a subconscious block that can be released as soon as the original event is integrated in the mind, heart, and body.

The time will come for the individual soul to open up to the awareness that it is not the body, the ego, the limitations, the thoughts, the personality, and so forth.

The soul is spirit incarnate. Don't think of yourself as a body that has a soul, bit rather as spirit that needs a body."-James Van Praggh

She kept saying, "I am free, James! I am so free! I cannot believe how obsessed I was about my body! What was I thinking? How crazy!" This struck me as extremely funny because anybody who knew Debbie knew that she was very concerned about her appearance, always wanting to look her best.

I think about when I used to dress that way, not in that dress, obviously, but in that flesh. I will never do it again. I have learned all kinds of lessons from dressing that way, great lessons, terrible lessons, boring lessons, all of them, the big one being no matter how much you own yourself and your body and your mind, there are men who will always try to seek power over your body, even if it is just with their eyes, although often it is with their words and sometimes with their hands.

Selve kernen i evangeliet er Jesu fortsatte gerning gennem sit legeme - menigheden - her på jorden, nøjagtig tilsvarende den gerning, han havde, da han var inkarneret - blot større i omfang.

Why is the raw body so unloved when it's out-loud? Just veins, blood, what we're made of?

Brugge, 14 mei 1978 Ik wil mijn lichaam onderwerpen aan folteringen. Mijn lichaam pijn laten lijden. Mijn lichaam laten sterven. Mijn lichaam laten oprijzen. Om zo zo in het proces van dood en wedergeboorte mijn lichaam los te weken van de realiteit en het te schenken aan de kunst.

so calm our minds that fears may cease, and rested bodies wake in peace.

wasn't any place on my body I

I saw your shower curtain hit the back lawn. You'll need to replace that." "I have a spare," I said. "Why on earth would you have a spare shower curtain?" he asked. "In case I need to haul off a body," I said.

boobs are twice as large as normal. From where I sit, that's pretty

And the Lord Jesus said," Pastor Don continued, "this is my body. Eat it in remembrance of me. Hmm, that sounds really bad. Too many episodes of The Walking Dead, probably. Hey, Jesus was sort of the first zombie, right?

and this horrid bra that shoved my boobs under my chin. I had a cleavage cleft the size of most people's butt cracks.

Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans. Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body.

What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into parcels of private property. Equally, this pattern points to the fragmentation of the psyche, which ultimately underlies and enables all of this damage.

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

It must be strange to keep your strong mind in a body that grows older and weaker and no longer resembles your own image of yourself.

To Hear the Falling World Only if I move my arm a certain way, it comes back. Or the way the light bends in the trees this time of year, so a scrap of sorrow, like a bird, lights on the heart. I carry this in my body, seed in an unswept corner, husk-encowled and seeming safe. But they guard me, these small pains, from growing sure of myself and perhaps forgetting.

But mostly we are made of a heavier stuff, the slow descent of breast, foot-arches flattening towards earth, the hundred ways the body longs for home.

Most of us live without awareness of the natural course of our lives. We were all born but don't remember the pain or shock of the transition from being safe and enclosed to the shock of being pushed out into a new element. We treat illness with resentment as though it is a total betrayal, and our bodies become an enemy. Old age is seen as something that happens to other people, and death is treated like rumour that may or may not be true.

We treat illness with resentment as though it is a total betrayal, and our bodies become an enemy. Old age is seen as something that happens to other people, and death is treated like rumour that may or may not be true.

Meditation practice is not concerned with perfecting concentration, or getting rid of thoughts, or trying to be peaceful. The practice merely provides a space in which we can relate simply with our body, our breath and the environment. Thoughts simply occur within a larger space. In that simple situation, we bring our attention back again and again from fantasy to the simple reality of being in the present moment.

This long struggle to be at home in the body, this difficult friendship.