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“Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.”

World May Body Process Understanding Fixed Our World Flawed Comprehension Unchanging Understanding God Partial Truth

Author:Gene Robinson

“The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer be confined to the physical body and the physical world.”

World Inspirational Body Understanding Attention Buddhism Confined Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first - not through intellectual understanding. The intellect works best in service to our intuition, our inner guidance, soul, God or higher power - whichever term we choose for the spiritual energy that animates life.”

Firsts Soul Feelings Body Spiritual Spirituality Energy Understanding Term Higher Intellectual Intuition Intellect Guidance Higher Power Spiritual Awareness Spiritual Energy

Author:Christiane Northrup

“Your emotions are your inner guidance system. They alone will let you know whether you are living in an environment of biochemical health or in an environment of biochemical distress. Understanding how your thoughts and your emotions affect every single hormone and cell in your body, and knowing how to change them in a way that is health-enhancing, gives you access to the most powerful and empowering health-creating secret on earth.”

Source: The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change

“The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.”

Ifs Mind Real Wisdom Body Form Causes Understanding Space Break Effects Originals Bones Your Body Characteristics Atoms Nihilist

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding.”

Firsts Feelings Body Understanding Intellectual Guidance Higher Power

Author:Christiane Northrup

“To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.”

World Body Given Understanding Performances Harmony Aim Intention

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life”

“When you are enlightened, your physical body will still feel pain if you get hurt, but you will not be overwhelmed even by extreme physical pain, because your mind is filled with light, love and understanding.”

Ifs Feels Mind Stills Body Light Pain Understanding Hurt Teacher Filled Extremes Enlightened Overwhelmed Physical Body Physical Pain

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.”

Body Pain Understanding Pleasure Waste Poor Richard

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.”

Heart Body Form Individual Understanding Perfect Education Virtue Habit Exercise Independent

Book:Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

Source: Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints