T Quotes
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“The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.”
“The body is a place where our mind resides, and that's what I'm photographing.”
“The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it's also the potential source of amazing energy. This thing wants to live. It is a powerful engine. The brain (is) a reservoir of images, dreams, fears, associations, language. And its potential we can't even begin to understand. Movement begins to negotiate the distance between the brain and the body and it can be surprising what we learn about each other.”
“The body is a rock; the arms are snakes”
“The body is a sacred garment.”
Source: Blood Memory
“The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.”
Source: Blood Memory
“The body is a self-healing organism, so it's really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself.”
“The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind,
the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.”
“The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn out by illness: for thereby the passions are weakened, and a man comes to himself; indeed, bodily illness itself is sometimes caused by the passions.”
“The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.”
“The body is a temple to preserve the divine gift. One should stay very close to nature, respecting Mother Earth and her original nature on earth.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“The body is a temple, where God dwells.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The body is a treacherous friend. Give it its due; no more. Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, trying at the same time to remove yourself beyond their power. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognized visitor will flee!”
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi
“The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.”
“The body is a vehicle for the mind, and that vehicle is how you travel through space.”
“The body is a very different place during the day compared with the night: the kidneys are less active at night, which means that we produce less urine and need to pee less; core body temperature is lower, as are our reaction speeds; and our immune systems respond differently to invaders. Then, as the sun comes up, and day begins, blood pressure and body temperature rise; hunger hormones kick in; and our brains and muscles shift into a higher gear.”
Source: Chasing the Sun: The New Science of Sunlight and How it Shapes Our Bodies and Minds
“The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.”
“The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.”
Source: Letters Home
“The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.”
“The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!”
“The body is an art to give pleasure to the soul”
“The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.”
“The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.”
“The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.”
“The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.”
Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
“The body is an outstanding source of strength; the mind an incredible source of intelligence; the heart an uncommon source of might; and the soul a remarkable source of power.”
“The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.”
“The body is born. Birth and death only have to do with the body. Ego also relates only to the body. Similarly, reincarnation relates only to the body. Do not think of the body. Think of the Atma. The Atma is one; it is unchanging. For Atma there is no incarnation, there is no reincarnation.”
“The body is consuming energy when tense, and restoring energy when it is relaxed.”
“The body is doing the action, body’s spare-parts are doing the action and the egoism simply does the egoism of, ‘I did’! Subtle-pride of egoism is created from this doer-ship and one is living due entirely on this basis. He simply tastes the subtle-pride of doer-ship; ‘I did’, ‘I suffered this pain’, ‘I enjoyed that happiness’. The person who gets rid of this subtle-pride will get freedom. Why does one taste this sweetness of subtle-pride of doership from infinite lives? He does this because he has never before tasted the sweetness of the Soul.”
“The body is encoded. It is also an instrument inside of which the song of our lives is sung. As he hunched over an elderly patient and placed a stethoscope to the man's chest, Blaine's eyes closed in deep concentration, as if listening to music.”
Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning
“The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth and an astronomer, you will see that the man is a planet.”
“The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.”
“The body is given out on loan - don't waste it and expect to use it tomorrow.”
“The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.”
“The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.”
“The body is holographic; therefore, when you change one biomarker you influence them all.”
“The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.”
Source: The invention of Morel
“The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.”
Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
“The body is innocent. Deeply, beautifully, fundamentally innocent.”
“The body is intended for a man to be able to have contact with the physical world and fulfill certain actions.”
“The body is just a water bubble. The mind is like a mad monkey. Do not follow either the body or the mind. Follow the Conscience. It is above the mind. It is permanent. It is the voice of God, the voice of unchanging truth inside you.”
“The body is just the vehicle for something else.”
“The body is like a bus and the driver is mind.”
Source: Rep By Rep
“The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don't leave a Ferrari out in the sun.”
“The body is like a companion, a friendly pet that follows one around...One can continue to own the body and be responsible for it without identifying with it as one's identity.”
“The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate, like the bulimic or obese.”
Source: Conscious Femininity: Interviews with Marion Woodman
“The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.”
“The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.”