“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.” SoulBodyInspirationChristianSpiritualSpiritVirtueDivineBecomingHarmonyIntellectContemplationPurityTemplesOrthodoxReceivingDwellingOrthodox ChristianHarpsLogosFlutesDwelling PlaceSpiritual Knowledge Author:Maximus the Confessor
“Feel that your body is like a bundle of flowers. When someone gives you flowers you enjoy their beauty, their purity. But you realize that, one day, the flowers will wither and fade.” GivingFeelsBodyEnjoyRealizingFlowerBuddhismOne DayYour BodyPurityFadesBundles Author:Frederick Lenz
“The body will blossom and fade, but you will remain after this body of yours has gone away. This knowledge allows you to love the body without attachment. Thus, the body becomes absolutely pure.” BodyGoneBuddhismPurePurityAttachmentFadesGone Away Author:Frederick Lenz
“As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity.” BodyAcceptingWatchesBuddhismPurityAttachmentTransitory Author:Frederick Lenz
“As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs.” BodyBuddhismConsciousEternityYour BodyEasePurityDescriptionFullness Author:Frederick Lenz
“Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.” MenShouldBelieveHeartMeanBodyMightAgePurposeEffortVirtueEventsHonestyFitInfiniteRegardInstrumentsPurityServingWorthwhileRemedyServing GodSovereignRamaFetishAilmentsTruth Honesty Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.” KnowsWorldWellsTwoStatesMomentsBodyChangeThis WorldTasteAffectionPurityMisfortunesPerpetualTangledFluxYarn Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.” MindBodyClothesOperationsPuritySweetness Author:George Herbert