“Service is God. Why has God endowed man with a body, a mind and an intellect ? Feel with the mind, plan with the intelligence and use the body to serve those who are in need of service. Offer that act of service to God; worship home with that Flower.” MenNeedsFeelsMindUseHomeBodyPlansFlowerOffersWorshipIntellectActs Of ServiceService To God Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines brings satisfaction when it is completed. These routines echo the rhythm of life, and the housekeeping rhythm is the rhythm of the body. You get satisfaction not only from the sense of order, cleanliness, freshness, peace and plenty restored, but from the knowledge that you yourself and those you care about are going to enjoy these benefits.” ThinkingI CanBodyCareOrderOpportunityEnjoyOffersAchievementBenefitsSatisfactionRhythmPlentyEchoesCleanlinessFreshnessHousekeepingSavoringRhythm Of Life Author:Cheryl Mendelson
“Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of Buddhism. The key to this is to renounce both body and mind without holding anything back and to offer them to the great sea of Buddhism.” WayMindBodyStudySeaStudentsBuddhismKeysOffersSakeMind And BodyRenounce Author:Dogen
“Margaret Miles offers a stunning treatment of human experience, coaxing humans to leave dualisms behind and embrace our intelligent bodies. In a foundational text, she draws on the arts, philosophy and theology, and her experience as a hospice volunteer to explore concrete alternatives to privileging the rational mind. Her erudition, wisdom, and graceful writing are compelling proof of the intelligent body.” WritingMindHumansArtPhilosophyBodyBehindsOffersDrawsIntelligentEmbraceProofMilesTheologyRationalAlternativesTreatmentConcreteCompellingVolunteerHuman ExperienceStunningDualismEruditionHospice Author:Mary E. Hunt
“In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin.” KindBodyLawCertainSinSacrificeOffersConstitutionVicesPunishmentPrimariesPreservesFixedExcessTemperance Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think