“In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.” MindBodyDifferencesPerfectHealthBuddhismStriveCombinationAthleticsPerfect Combination Author:Frederick Lenz
“IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A right combination of image & tune plunges the audience into a hal (something between emotional/aesthetic mood & trance of hyperawareness), outbursts of weeping, fits of dancing--measurable physical response to art. For us the link between poetry & body died with the bardic era--we read under the influence of a cartesian anaesthetic gas.” ArtReasonBodyAudienceSawsInfluenceEmotionalFitDiedDancingResponseMoodErasCombinationGasTunesPoetry IsLinksMeant To BeAestheticWeepingPlungeTranceOutburstPersia Author:Hakim
“Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?” KnowsGivingFactsBodyLawLyingNamesDealsSurfaceCombinationException Author:Honore de Balzac
“Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.” GivingReasonBodyProgressSecurityProudPoliticianResourcesEnglandCombinationBe ProudConservatismExquisitePossessing Author:Anthony Trollope
“Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It requires discipline, taking care of yourself, taking care of your own body first. Then it allows you to give of that beauty, the beauty that you acquire by sculpting your own body all your life.” GivingFirstsArtBodyCareDisciplinePureDemandCombinationAcquireBalletTake Care Of YourselfSculpting Author:Peter Martins