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“It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.”

“A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work.”

Soul Body Clear Color Rain Window Boxes Sunlight Roof Vigorous Frugal Daily Work

Book:Albert P. Ryder: centenary exhibition ; Oct. 18 to Nov. 30, 1947

Source: Albert P. Ryder: centenary exhibition ; Oct. 18 to Nov. 30, 1947

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?”

Ifs Children Long Moments Body Today Death Gone Window Logic Prepared Illness Storm Yesterday Broke Why Not Warning Troops Small Child Baffled

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.”

Ifs Body Window Glasses Temples Tattoo Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows Body Is A Temple

Author:Sylvia Plath