“Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul. In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.” MenMadeSoulBodyEarthEvilEnergyChristianityStruggleTearsPureWeakFleshVainTortureInjuryDiseasedInception Author:Emma Goldman
“The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.” IfsMindWellsRealRealityAgeUniverseEnergyProcessPerceptionFlowStonesConnectionsEdgesIntellectScreensFleshSensesEndlessConsistentCosmicSteelMysticalFluxShimmerCosmic Energy Author:Peter Matthiessen
“UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad for you, too: it's always best to avoid things that decompose the molecules of your flesh.” ScienceEnergyBreakFleshAtomsMoleculesConstituentsHigh Energy Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh.” MadeEnergyMaterialsAngelCurrentsFleshDazzlingBulbs Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“Life is a phenomenon sui generis, a primal fact in its own right, like energy. Cut flesh or wood how you like, hack at them in a baffled fury—you cannot find life itself, you can only see what it built out of the lifeless dust.” FactsLife IsEnergyCuttingBuiltWoodsFleshDustPhenomenonFuryPrimalHacksLifelessBaffled Author:Donald C. Peattie