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“All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.”

Ifs Body Eye Lying Asks Causes Walking Spring Sitting Dust Intimate Visible Grain Dharma Treasury Lying Down

Author:Dogen

“New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.”

World Ideas Whole Moments Problem Body Inspiration Science Community Struggle Spring Lonely Accounts Inspired Whole World Organized Researchers

Author:Max Planck

“Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing in the light! Even at this distance, he has marked you, and suspects that you bear no goodwill towards him, for he sees that you have a gun, and he has many a time been frightened by its report, or that of some other. The wary bird draws his feet under his body, springs upon then, opens his wings, and with loud quacks bids you farewell.”

Source: Ornithological Biography: Or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America; Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners. 5 Vol. Il. Q.

“Blessed the man that hath visited `Akká, and blessed he that hath visited the visitor of `Akká. Blessed the one that hath drunk from the Spring of the Cow and washed in its waters, for the black-eyed damsels quaff the camphor in Paradise, which hath come from the Spring of the Cow, and from the Spring of Salvan (Siloam), and the Well of Zamzam. Well is it with him that hath drunk from these springs, and washed in their waters, for God hath forbidden the fire of hell to touch him and his body on the Day of Resurrection.”

Men Wells Body Black Water Hell Fire He Man Spring Blessed Drunk Paradise Cows Resurrection Forbidden Visitors

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.”

Way Body Running School Mother Fall Sports Morning Sun Brother Spring Winter Athlete Breakfast Every Morning Brothers And Sisters Alabama

Book:Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

“coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.”

Ends Body Death Steps Spring Shoes Kicks Grandmother My Grandmother Faltering

Book:Rooms overhead

Source: Rooms overhead

“The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.”

Humans Body Wind Spring Machines Perpetual Human Body Perpetual Motion

Author:Julien Offray de La Mettrie

“The body whips the soul. In its great desire it demands the elixir In the roar of spring, transmutations.”

Soul Body Desire Demand Spring Whips Elixir Transmutation

Book:Selected Writings of Charles Olson

Source: Selected Writings of Charles Olson

“Some springs are acid, as at Lyncestus and in Italy in the Velian country, at Teano in Campania, and in many other places. These when used in drinks have the power of breaking up stones in the bladder, which form in the human body.”

Humans Country Body Form Used Drink Spring Stones Human Body Acid Bladder

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbs all these incorporeal spirits, and the perfume of all these flowers.”

World Body Spirit Emotion Rich Flower Bears Holy Spring Angel Assuming Seeds Lovely Flying Inward Perfume Limbs Never Assume

Author:Jean Paul

“Whatever girl you are, every girl needs a really killer peg skirt in her closet. I don't care who you are. If you're the bohemian and you're wearing your big boyfriend sweater you need a peg skirt to reclaim your body. If you were the movie star, you might wear that with the push up tank like we have in the spring collection. It's all about body, body body. If you're the power player you put a jacket over that and work it that way. That item is for every girl, and every boy appreciated her in it.”

“As the web issues out of the spider, As plants sprout from the earth, As hair grows from the body, even so, The sages say, this universe springs from, The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul), the source of life.”

Soul Self God Body Earth Universe Grows Issues Source Hair Spring Plant Supreme Sage Spiders Sprouts Source Of Life Deathless

Author:Eknath Easwaran

“The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the body dies; it will remain when the mountains depart and the hills shall be removed, and when the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. The fountain of His comfort shall never be diminished, and the stream shall never be dried. His comfort and joy is a living spring in the soul, a well of water springing up to everlasting life.”

Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume II - I

“I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart, turn off my mind, turn off my body - just lie there, senseless, like a dormant tree in winter, waiting for the spring to return.”

Mind Heart Body Wanted Lying Turns Waiting Tree Return My Heart Spring Presses Winter Emptiness Buttons Detachment Clicks Turn Off Numbness Dormant

Author:Kevin Brooks

“When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.”

Body Air Spring Filled Wander Void

Book:On the Nature of Things

Source: On the Nature of Things

“We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form.”

“A slight sabre-cut will separate my head from my body, like the spring flower which the Master of the garden gathers for His pleasure. We are all flowers planted on this earth, which God plucks in His own good time: some a little sooner, some a little later. Father and son may we meet in Paradise. I, poor little moth, go first. Adieu.”

Firsts May Littles Body Earth Father Pleasure Poor Cutting Son Flower Masters Spring Garden Paradise Good Times Pluck Moths Father And Son Spring Flowers Adieu

Author:Theophane Venard

“O You Who are hidden, body, soul and divinity, Under the fragile form of bread, You are my life from Whom springs an abundance of graces; And, for me, You surpass the delights of Heaven.”

Soul Body Form Heaven Grace Spring Delight Bread Abundance Divinity Fragile Sacraments

Author:Mary Faustina Kowalska

“you said Is there anything which is dead or alive more beautiful than my body,to have in your fingers (trembling ever so little)? Looking into your eyes Nothing,i said,except the air of spring smelling of never and forever. ....and through the lattice which moved as if a hand is touched by a hand(which moved as though fingers touch a girl's breast, lightly) Do you believe in always,the wind said to the rain I am too busy with my flowers to believe,the rain answered”

Ifs Believe Littles Said Body Hands Eye Beautiful Girl Forever Alive Air Wind Flower Spring Rain Moved Fingers Busy Breasts Touched Too Busy Trembling

Book:Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte

Source: Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte

“Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If thats true, I want to be buried right here under this tree. Its roots will reach into the soft mess of my body and suck me dry. I'll be re-formed as apple blossom. I'll drift down in the spring like confetti and cling to my family's shoes. They'll carry me in their pockets to help them sleep. What dreams will they have then?”

Ifs Want Humans Made Helping Dream Body Dies Stars Sleep Tree Return Spring Rain Roots My Family Shoes Nuclear Dust Mess Apples Dry Pockets Buried Ashes Glitter Confetti

Author:Jenny Downham

“I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fern. How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had frozen to death. In the spring, when they were found, a beautiful red fern had grown up between their two bodies. The story went on to say that only an angel could plant the seeds of a red fern, and that they never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred.”

Littles Two Stories Body Beautiful Girl Found Lost Boys Heard Grew Spring Angel Red Died Sacred Plant Seeds Spots Indian Legends Frozen Boy And Girl Blizzard Ferns

Author:Wilson Rawls

“I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.”

Kind Body Order Felt Danger Spring Built Standing Machines Core Flying Tension Unhappiness Primitive Blast Loaded Torso

Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.”

Giving Soul Body Flower Spring Stones Sacred Depth Colour Rays Scent True Beauty Kernel

Author:Rumi

“I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.' I said nothing. 'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...' I said nothing. 'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...' I said nothing. 'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little bells; I'll have five-hundred million springs of fresh water...' And he, too, said nothing more.”

Ifs Knows Wells Looks Littles Said I Can Body Fun Stars Water Millions Five Nice Drink Spring Hundred Heavy Being True Abandoned Bells Shells Being Nice Fresh Water Pulleys

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the dirt on my skin made the rash worse, but the bathing tub has been turned upside down and is being used as an extra table in the kitchen and i cannot have it until spring, so I just spread goose grease on my rash. The dogs are following me everywhere.”

Thinking Has Beens Made Body Wanted Used Dog Spring Skins Down And Tables Following Spread Kitchen Extras Rough Dirt Baths Upside Down Geese Bathing Grease Tubs

Book:Catherine, Called Birdy

Source: Catherine, Called Birdy

“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”

Men Love Mind Helping Body Born Secret Spring Passionate Tendencies Atoms Innate Jars God Help Secret Love God Help Us

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.”

Moments Body Seems Eye Past Remember Wish Opinion Spring Preserves Noses Indifference Colour Emergencies Crossings My Past

Book:The Waves

Source: The Waves

“You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. "My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.”

“Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.”

Inspirational Years Humans Mean Body Periods Spring Years Ago Seven Cells Biology Smallest Seven Years Human Body Renewal

Book:The Raw Shark Texts

Source: The Raw Shark Texts

“To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.”

“Spring slattern of seasons you have soggy legs and a muddy petticoat drowsy is your hair your eyes are sticky with dream and you have a sloppy body from being brought to bed of crocuses when you sing in your whisky voice the grass rises on the head of the earth and all the trees are put on edge spring of the excellent jostle of thy hips and the superior”

Dream Body Eye Earth Voice Tree Hair Bed Spring Seasons Edges Legs Superiors Hips Excellent Grass Muddy Sloppy Whisky Sticky Drowsy Crocuses

Author:e. e. cummings

“To the garden of the world anew descending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being, Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber, The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again, amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous, My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous, Existing I peer and penetrate still, Content with the present, content with the past, By my side or back of me Eve following, Or in front, and I following her just the same.”

“(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;) And go along with you ere you lose sight Of what you came for and become like me, Slave to a springtime passion for the earth. How love burns through the Putting in the Seed On through the watching for that early birth When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed, The sturdy seedling with arched body comes Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.”

Way Body Earth Passion Loses Birth Spring Sight Slave Seeds Like Me Soil Weed Smooth Beans Springtime Barren Petals Peas Crumbs Sturdy Seedlings

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot perish. It will germinate when the warm south wind of Christ's return brings back the spring-tide to this cold sin-cursed earth of ours; and then they that are in their graves, and we who shall lie down in ours, will feel in our mortal bodies the power of His resurrection, and will come forth to life immortal.”

Feels Body Earth Lying Jesus Christ Sin Wind Cold Return Spring Jesus Christ Green South Warm Seeds Tiny Graves Mortals Immortal Resurrection Tides Easter Cursed Jesus Christ Easter

Author:David McMurtrie Gregg

“Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name, or one that was more appropriate. From her lap springs everything that possesses life and motion, everything that flourishes, fades, and has its fated day, and she tirelessly provides material for the countless varied bodies that are created -- and then abandoned -- by the life force in its unending, hidden progress through nature.”

Body Earth Mother Names Force Progress Humility Poet Materials Gratitude Spring All Things Ancient Chosen Attractive Appropriate Abandoned Fades Sage Lap Stewardship Unending

Author:Jonas Hallgrimsson

“If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.”

Ifs Men Ideas Body Earth America Friendship Community Color Spring Freshness Flowering Metallic Greening

Author:Alan Watts