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“So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them”

World Giving Should Writing Body Remember Attention This World Birth Giving Up Blue Favors Celebrate Plato Vulgar Wretched Request Caress

Book:On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry

Source: On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry

“When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.”

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

“Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.”

Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra

“Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.”

Love Giving Body Eye Pain Spiritual Love Is Birth Your Body Cures Yield Sufism Scent Sufi Giving Birth

Book:'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

“Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of day and night; it is not of the earth. But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time and space, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust. Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in your palpitating heart. The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoe to kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the mother- dust.”

“Mothers have a sacred role. They are partners with God, as well as with their own husbands, first in giving birth to the Lord's spirit children and then rearing those children so they will serve the Lord and keep his commandments. ...Motherhood is a holy calling, a sacred dedication for carrying out the Lord's work, a consecration and devotion to the rearing and fostering, the nurturing of body, mind, and spirit of those who kept their first estate and who came to this earth for their second estate to learn and be tested.”

“You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no birth- It is only your body that is born and dies-But you are not aware of your consciousness-You are not conscious of your consciousness-And that is the whole art of meditation;Becoming conscious of consciousness itself.”

Knows World Art Whole Body Spiritual Dies Born Consciousness Meditation Birth Becoming Conscious Eternity Your Body Deathless Meditation Mind Penetration

Author:Rajneesh

“Arrayed in a new body another mother may someday give birth so that with stronger limbs and brighter mind the old soul shall take the road to earth again.”

Giving Mind May Soul Body Earth Mother Birth Stronger Someday Limbs Brighter Old Soul

Book:The Fledgling Handbook 101

Source: The Fledgling Handbook 101

“Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of.”

Body Faces Dies Known Childhood Birth Moved Longing Endless Spokes

Book:Illyria

Source: Illyria

“Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.”

Giving Humans Two Body Energy Human Nature Materials Birth Flow Painful Bliss Estrangement

Author:Adrienne Rich

“You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.”

Mind May Body Dies Break Birth Hundred Your Body Turmoil

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.”

Source: The Yeats companion

“A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.”

Ifs Men Looks Said Soul Body Earth Stars Voice Pay Too Much Birth Scar Soul And Body

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.”

Soul Body Law Church Birth Destruction Flesh Resurrection Decay Virgins Emphasis Incarnation Suspension Virgin Birth

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“Black for hunting through the night For death and mourning the color's white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown And red to call the enchantment down White silk when our bodies burn Blue banners when the lost return Flame for the birth of a Nephilim And to wash away our sins. Gray for the knowledge best untold Bone for those who don't grow old Saffron lights the victory march Green to mend our broken hearts Silver for the demon towers And bronze to summon wicked powers -Shadowhunter children's rhyme”

“Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.”

World Love Mind Stills Body Happiness Joy Spirit Return Birth Yoga Capacity Harmony Openness Within You Wholeness

Author:Deepak Chopra

“(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;) And go along with you ere you lose sight Of what you came for and become like me, Slave to a springtime passion for the earth. How love burns through the Putting in the Seed On through the watching for that early birth When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed, The sturdy seedling with arched body comes Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.”

Way Body Earth Passion Loses Birth Spring Sight Slave Seeds Like Me Soil Weed Smooth Beans Springtime Barren Petals Peas Crumbs Sturdy Seedlings

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”

Firsts Body Pain Spiritual Spirit Mother Suffering Bits Growth Born Mom Birth Painful Spiritual Growth Inner Life

Book:The Promised Land

Source: The Promised Land

“Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.”

Way May Doe Play Body Desire Games Memories Identity Return Birth Taxes Track Cards Manage Bureaucracy Visa Tax Returns Expulsion

Book:Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile

Source: Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile

“The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.”

Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

“In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier mankilling; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.”

Men Humans May Doe Matter Body Born Human Beings Cases Blood Birth Murder Fruit Killing Seeds Abortion Forbidden Womb Hinder Sustenance Does It Matter Fetus Parts Of The Body

Author:Tertullian

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