“Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.” MindLittlesSkinsRegardBlessedSaintFleshMasteryDeceivedEyelids Author:Ephrem the Syrian
“Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint.” WritingSelfStoriesAbilityConsciousConcernedRegardMalesMusicalConvincedFleshEncountersProseReliefSubtleOperaSoleComplaintsDisgraceSelf ConsciousLyricalChasteStylishMusical AbilityCoetzee Author:Paul Bailey
“I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out a philosophy of life and struck a compromise between the flesh and the spirit. Too great an ascendancy of either was to be abnormal, and since normality is almost a fetish of mine, I finally succeeded in balancing both natures. Ordinarily they are at equilibrium; yet as frequently as one is permitted to run rampant, so is the other. I have small regard for an utter brute or for an utter saint.” TwoPhilosophyRunningSpiritDealsTroubleMinesLife PhilosophyRegardSaintFleshCompromiseBrutesEquilibriumAbnormalNormalityFetishAscendancy Author:Jack London
“There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."” MenWorldArtSaidWarPlayJoyOrderDiesPayActingCreationLessonsDignityRegardExcellenceFleshCampaignsAbsurdBreathingHonourMultipleDefeatedAbsurdityMetaphysicalRecognizingConquestRevoltTributeRecovering Author:Albert Camus
“God sees the minds (ruling principles) of all men bared of the material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual part alone he touches the intelligence only which has flowed and been derived from himself into these bodies. And if thou also usest thyself to do this, thou wilt rid thyself of thy much trouble. For he who regards not the poor flesh which envelops him, surely will not trouble himself by looking after raiment and dwelling and fame and such like externals and show.” IfsMenMindShowsBodyPoorPrinciplesTroubleMaterialsFameIntellectualRegardFleshRulingThyselfDwellingImpurity Book:Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Source: Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“I think it's for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation; I believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn't mean that we don't continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified. But sin resides, the power of sin resides in our flesh. It will always try us and it was always tempt us and therefore we always need to be submitting our mind, will and emotions to the lordship of Jesus Christ.” ThinkingNeedsTryingMindBelieveMeanJesusI BelieveChristSinEmotionIssuesJesus ChristRegardSalvationI Believe InBelieverFleshMatureJustificationJustifiedSanctificationLordship Author:Alan Chambers
“It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage” MindMadeActionAnimalStageWeakPhilosophicalRegardErrorsFleshHinduismPassiveVegetarianismVegetarian Food Author:Mahatma Gandhi