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“He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple of God. He has become a harp by preserving the harmony of the virtues; a flute by receiving the inspiration of the Spirit through divine contemplation; and a temple by becoming a dwelling place of the Logos through the purity of his intellect.”

“The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.”

“There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.”

Has Beens Ends Body Hours Sorrow Tired Graves Unhappy Contemplation Pleasant Happy Life Worn Worn Out Unhappy Life

Book:Twelve Years a Slave

Source: Twelve Years a Slave

“The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration.”

Body Purpose Song Community Study Written Messages Praise Cells Contemplation Etc Celebration Scholar Prophecy Printed Contemplative Announcements Lamentation Recitals

Author:Thomas Merton

“I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.”

Wells Body Alive Healthy Contemplation Contemplating Diseased

Author:Richard Selzer

“Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.”

Ifs Soul Matter Philosophy Use Body Light Eye Spiritual Sleep Study Shadow Vices Communicate Intellect Substance Contemplation Rays Spiritual Life Devoted Awakened Angelic

Book:The Book of the Courtier

Source: The Book of the Courtier

“We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.”

Littles Body Forget Hair Concern Fallen Contemplation Shrinks

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]”

Mind Body Suffering Fine Sick Contemplation Hopeless

Author:Ovid