“When you start your meditation, picture a beautiful blue sky without any clouds in it. Feel that your body is growing lighter. Visualize that you are floating in the sky and that all tension, fatigue, worry and problems have left you.” FeelsProblemBodyBeautifulLeftWorryMeditationGrowingSkyBlueCloudsYour BodyTensionFloatingFatigueVisualizationLightersBlue Sky Author:Frederick Lenz
“In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.” BodyAgeCitiesDarknessBrotherHugeCloudsOld AgeDustFrailOvertaking Author:Guru Gobind Singh
“Our brains are wired to interpret shapes as faces and bodies. That's why people see the Virgin Mary in the clouds or even in cheese sandwiches. It's your cytoplasm, not some strange ectoplasm.” PeopleBodyFacesBrainStrangeShapesCloudsMaryCheeseVirginsSandwichesVirgin MaryCheese Sandwiches Author:Seth Shostak
“My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag; it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet.” KnowsYearsBodyAgeNightLostMorningTreeWindBearsCloudsBitterFiftyBagsDestinationShellsTravelerPilgrimWalletsPeachesSnailAlmsOld TreesMorning And Night Author:Matsuo Basho
“For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.” SoulBodyLightEyeLanguagePureDifficultyRaisesCloudsHeavySensualityVirtuousFlashLightningVaporDartsDank Author:Plutarch