Physical Body Quotes

• Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

  Henry Miller

  Order, Giving, Redemption

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.325, New Directions Publishing

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• Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated Vol. 13, Issue 26, (pp. 14-17), December 26, 1960.

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• Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.405, Jaico Publishing House

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• Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Health, Soul And Body

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar (p. 48), September 19, 2006.

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• No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training

  Socrates

  Men, Training, Matter

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• Nothing, in all of the Universe is more delicious than to be in this physical body allowing the fullness that is you to be present in the moment.

  Esther Hicks

  Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

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• When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We shall have found the basis of everything — of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small — except life.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Sunshine, Air, Secret

  "The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century: A Dictionary of Quotations‎". Book by Frank S. Pepper, p. 226, 1987.

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• Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Creativity, Blood

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.11, Souvenir Press

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• A ghost is a human being who has passed out of the physical body, usually in a traumatic state and is not aware usually of his true condition. We are all spirits encased in a physical body. At the time of passing, our spirit body continues into the next dimension. A ghost, on the other hand, due to trauma, is stuck in our physical world and needs to be released to go on.

  Hans Holzer

  Hands, Goes On, World

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• Electronic man has no physical body.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Body

  "McLuhan's last words". Stewart Brand, New Scientist, January 29, 1981.

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• Satan does not have a body, and his eternal progress has been halted. Just as water flowing in a riverbed is stopped by a dam, so the adversary's eternal progress is thwarted because he does not have a physical body.

  David A. Bednar

  Water, Progress, Doe

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• We're all physical bodies, but basically everything we do is determined by what goes on in our heads. The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is me.

  Barry Zito

  Goes On, Body, Determined

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• If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.

  J. C. Kumarappa

  Body, Appreciated, Faculty

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• We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange.

  Alan Watts

  People, Feelings, Suffering

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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• The body becomes the carrier for the work. It's not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don't really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.

  Nick Cave

  Moving, Tools, Looks

  "Nick Cave’s Object Permanence" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf.

  John Shelby Spong

  Golf, Thinking, Play

  "Bishop John Shelby Spong Ahead Of His Time With Church Reforms" by David Gibson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2013.

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• The chakras are specialized energy centers which connect us to the multidimensional universe. The chakras are dimensional portals within the subtle bodies which take in and process energy of higher vibrational nature so that it may be properly assimilated and used to transform the physical body.

  Richard Gerber

  Energy, Body, May

  Richard Gerber (2001). “Vibrational Medicine: The #1 Handbook of Subtle-Energy Therapies”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• It's wrong to believe that you need a certain physical body type to run. All body types can run. It's not about your legs, muscles, or cellulite. It's not about the physical side of things. If you train your brain, your body will follow. It's that simple. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Believe, Simple

  Amby Burfoot (2005). “Runner's World Complete Book of Beginning Running”, p.47, Rodale

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• Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• If your energy body is in full vibrancy, the physical body will naturally fix itself.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• We all share a type of physical body that becomes ill or heals for the same reasons. We also share emotional and psychological crises common to the human experience. Everyone fears abandonment, loss and betrayal; anger is as toxic within a Jewish body as it is within a Christian, Muslim or Hindu body; and we are all drawn to love. When it comes to health of our spirits and our bodies, we have no difference.

  Caroline Myss

  Christian, Betrayal, Loss

  FaceBook post by Caroline Myss from Aug 19, 2014

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• Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the large; who doesn't have enough with enough is at the margin or virtue, for the physical body lives from one day to another and if it gets what it really needs, there will be time for meditation, as long as if we try to give it everything it desires, endless will be the task.

  Laozi

  Long, Appreciate, Giving

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• Our spirits...require nourishment. Just as there is food for the body, there is food for the spirit. The consequences of spiritual malnutrition are just as hurtful to our spiritual lives as physical malnutrition is to our physical bodies.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Spiritual, Hurtful, Body

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• When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Gratitude, Love You, Joy

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• Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.

  Aberjhani

  Beauty, Passion, Self

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