Quotes About Physical

There is then no question of the possibility of interventions in the course of nature, in whatever degree or form. The physical universe is not a closed system. Miracles are possible simply because of that fact.

Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universe

Leonardo believed his research had the potential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last year he categorically proved the existence of an energy force that unites us all. He actually demonstrated that we are all physically connected… that the molecules in your body are intertwined with the molecules in mine… that there is a single force moving within all of us.

We've been reading the Bible too literally. We learn that God created us in his image, but it's not our physical bodies that resemble God, it's our minds.

The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change. From the scarified Nubian priests of 2000 B.C., to the tattooed acolytes of the Cybele cult of ancient Rome, to the moko scars of the modern Maori, humans have tattooed themselves as a way of offering up their bodies in partial sacrifice, enduring the physical pain of embellishment and emerging changed beings.

For years I've studied the ancients' claims of man's awesome mental power, and now science is showing us that accessing that power is an actual physical process. Our brains, if used correctly, can call forth powers that are quite literally superhuman.

the realization that the mind's ability to affect the physical world could be

our thoughts actually interacted with the physical world, whether or not we knew it, effecting change all the way down to the subatomic realm.

The mind had the ability to alter the state of matter itself, and, more important, the mind had the power to encourage the physical world to move in a specific direction.

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I realize that you, like many educated people, live trapped between worlds - one foot in the spiritual, one foot in the physical. Your heart yearns to believe ... but your intellect refuses to permit it. As an academic, you would be wise to learn from the great minds of history.

Buscamos el bienestar de nuestros cuerpos físicos con la esperanza de que se extienda también a nuestras almas".

What do you call that feeling when you're certain that the world is doomed? It's one of those feelings that's physical, like low blood sugar or too much caffeine, a message from the lizard brain. But for a moment you know that it's not just you. Not just Cleveland. It's everything. We, the creatures of the earth, are really and truly fucked.

People have asked me how they can determine when to listen to fear's counsel and when to push through the fear. As a general rule, when the danger is physical, let fear guide you to take care and prepare well or even choose not to take foolish risks. But when the fear is psychological, as in the fear of embarrassment, shame, rejection, and so forth, that is the time to push through

I discovered what a mental stimulant physical labor could be; not mere physical labor, I should add, but absolutely spine-bending, lung-racking, gut-ripping, ligament-tearing, and ball-breaking physical labor. But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative climes, it actually flees to higher planes.

Hoyt's view of hell is tactile; it is the pain which moves in him like jagged wires pulled through his veins and guts.

I read this, as you do, with hope for my sanity and hope for salvation, not of my soul, but salvation of self in the renewed certainty or reunion--real reunion, physical reunion--with the one whom I remember and love above all others. And this is the best reason to read.

One of the things anxiety educates you in is how deeply physical thought can be, how concrete. In anxiety, there is no time to luxuriate in abstractions. It's just you and your mind, which has fists and is using them. It may be dualistic and logically untenable to posit the situation as You v. Head; it may not make sense philosophically. But in the throes of anxiety? In the cognitive shit? There's really no other way to think about what's going on.

and how toxic emotions put our physical health at as much risk as does chain-smoking, even as emotional balance can help protect our health and well-being.

No wonder that had been easy. It had been only physical. This with Alice was a mystery.

differences in economic performance are chiefly dependent upon spiritual rather than physical characteristics.

You have to really imagine that a person's quest, in a larger sense, gently reconnects the emotional and physical circuits that were left in abandonment or that never had the opportunity to become developed.

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

"For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come."