“It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.” IfsWayImportantBodyFallProcessPracticeImagineAchieveDyingWindowSkinsDistanceTrainYour BodyOne WayWheelsEmptinessKnivesDetachmentNumbnessPiercingsTorsoGirl InterruptedImagining Yourself Author:Susanna Kaysen
“When you look at women today, many take very good care of themselves - they exercise, they eat well, they achieve so much in their jobs. I think they feel good, they feel beautiful, and I believe they want to show their bodies.” ThinkingWantFeelsBelieveWellsLooksShowsBodyCareTodayJobsBeautifulI BelieveAchieveExerciseVery GoodFeel GoodFeeling Beautiful Author:Joseph Altuzarra
“If you can mentally see the end of the journey, then your body will physically find a way to achieve that goal.” IfsWayEndsBodyGoalJourneyAchieveYour Body Author:Greg Plitt
“With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.” MindHas BeensSoulBodyPastLostAchieveExpectationsAssumingStrivePursuitOur FutureOur PastStrifeYour FutureYour PastAccord Author:Sheri S. Tepper
“There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.” IfsHumansMayBodyYoungMotherDesireWaterChurchCompanyBloodAchieveCrimeBabyColdCreaturesGainsHatredShameMethodFellowsDearVariousCupsNeighborhoodScornDrainsReservoirsRobbingDregsVicarsYoung MotherIgnominy Book:Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist. One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.” MindSoulBodyArtistAchieveWillingEnlightenmentReleaseEcstasyPerformersBeing An Artist Author:Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
“I was born with the wrong body, being feminine by gender but male by sex, and I could achieve completeness only when the one was adjusted to the other.” BodySexBornAchieveMalesGenderFeminineCompleteness Book:Conundrum Source: Conundrum