Mind And Body Quotes - Page 16

• The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind,
  the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.

  Adyashanti

  Thinking, Tree, Mind

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• To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.

  Naomi Wolf

  Empowering, Mind, Trying

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I guess I came to terms with my demons. Or else I'd be in big trouble, wouldn't I? Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature. I'll tell you, being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst. But you take the cards you're dealt, and I got better. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well.

  Margot Kidder

  Get Well, Crazy, Eye

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

  Andre Maurois

  Mind, Suffering, Body

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. How is virtue to be cultivated? How can it express itself in daily practice? Through service to living beings, through seva. Virtue must flow through the triple channel of love, mercy and detachment, in order to feed the roots of seva.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Order, Practice, Roots

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• You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

  Winston Churchill

  Fall, Sacrifice, Confusion

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.672, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Self, Names, Diversity

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• When you sit in the full lotus position, your left foot is on your right thigh and your right foot is on your left thigh. When we cross our legs like this, even though we have a right leg and a left leg, they become one. The position expresses the oneness of duality: not two and not one. This is the most important teaching: not two, and not one. Our body and mind are not two and not one. If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Teaching, Thinking, Two

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• If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in touch with them yet. The potential of finding the truth within requires faith in ourselves.

  Ayya Khema

  Mind, Needs, Answers

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• Like a spring of pure water, God's peace in our hearts brings cleansing and refreshment to our minds and bodies

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Spring, Heart

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day Morning and Evening Devotions”, p.184, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In order not to leave any traces, when you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do. You should not have any remains after you do something. But this does not mean to forget all about it.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mean, Fire, Order

  "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind".

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• In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mind, Body, Accepting

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• To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of realization remains, and this no trace continues endlessly.

  Dogen

  Self, Mind, Realization

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• Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.

  Robert Owen

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  Robert Owen (1837). “Essays on the Formation of the Human Character”, p.29

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• When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

  Dogen

  Perfect, Mind, Body

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• The innate harmony that exists between mind and body is one of the secrets behind the amazing power of Shin-shin-toitsu-do, which is weakened by an inefficient use of the body. Our bodies must be strong, relaxed, and healthy to respond to our minds' commands.

  H. E Davey

  Strong, Healthy, Mind

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• Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place in the instant, it brings the mind into the present, where the body resides, producing unification of mind and body.

  H. E Davey

  Yoga, Meditation, Listening

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• Send out love and harmony, put your mind and body in a peaceful place, and then allow the universe to work in the perfect way that it knows how.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 17, 2015

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• Angels are always with you. You're never alone, especially in your time of need. Listen in stillness for our guidance, which comes upon wings to your heart, mind, and body. Our messages always speak of love.

  Doreen Virtue

  Heart, Angel, Wings

  Doreen Virtue (2008). “Daily Guidance from Your Angels”, p.4, Hay House, Inc

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• All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Mind, World

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• Nakamura Tempu Sensei viewed the mind as a segment of the body that could not be seen and the body as the element of the mind that was observable. He also likened the mind and body to a stream, with the mind as the source flowing down to the body. Whatever we drop in the stream will be carried down by the current. In like manner, our thoughts will influence the body and our well being.

  H. E Davey

  Mind, Body, Elements

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• Your body's ability to function as a clean and efficient channel is limited by stiffness, lack of strength, and lack of endurance. Your mind's ability is limited by the way it thinks about itself, by the way you think about you. The process of yoga is one of undoing the obstructions and limitations in your body and mind that inhibit the free flow of creative life force.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Yoga, Thinking, Creative

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

  John F. Kennedy

  Creativity, Creative, Greek

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• Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

  Judith Guest

  Love, Break Up, Soul And Body

  Judith Guest (1980). “Ordinary people”

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• Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller, and Counterclockwise is a fascinating story about the unexpected ways in which our minds and bodies are connected.

  Dan Ariely

  Creative, Mind, Stories

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