Senses Quotes - Page 27

• An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Philosophy, Medicine, Mind

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• Any physical addiction, it doesn't matter how long they've been taking it or how full of it their body is, and addiction, would, between three and thirty days, be completely cleared from the system. Usually closer to three days than thirty days. But it is the emotional craving that must be tended to.

  Esther Hicks

  Philosophy, Emotional, Medicine

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• Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire!

  Esther Hicks

  Philosophy, Medicine, Giving

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• I sing the body electric.

  Walt Whitman

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

  Title of poem (1855)

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• Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.

  Alan Cohen

  Philosophy, Medicine, Trying

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• If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

  George A. Sheehan

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soul

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Yield, Madness, Disorder

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• The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Mean, Smell

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• Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.

  Kabir

  Mind, Body, Quiet

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• Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Honesty, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

  Henri Matisse

  Color, Drawing, Spirit

  "Minnesota celebrates Matisse".

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• With women, my wiring shorts out. My senses respond to the physical and the chemical, the scent and sheen of her. Evil could not possibly reside in the form of this angel. Or could it? Sure, I'm politically incorrect. I admit it; I confess; guilty as charged. I am, Your Honor, the lowest of the species, still wet from the swamp, webbed feet fossilized in the mud. I am a Man!

  Paul Levine

  Angel, Men, Feet

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• The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

  Maria Montessori

  World, Way, Firsts

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• He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Attachment, Wish

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• Thinking is more precious than all five senses.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Thinking, Five Senses, Five

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• On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Afterlife, Gold, Purses

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.42, Mondial

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• The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, War, Health

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.57, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Character, Voice, Secret

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• Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
  harmonyof the body, senses, mind
  and intellect, reason, consciousness
  and self. When all these are integrated
  that is true yoga.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Self, Perfect

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• The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Philosophy, Medicine, Yesterday

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• The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.

  John Coltrane

  Giving, Musician, Wonderful

  1966 Quoted in sleeve-note to the re-issue of Coltrane's Sound (originally published 1961).

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• Your soul has a special mission. Your soul is supremely conscious of it.
  Maya, illusion or forgetfulness, makes you feel that you are finite, weak and helpless. This is not true. You are not the body. You are not the senses. You are not the mind. These are all limited. You are the soul, which is unlimited. Your soul is infinitely powerful. Your soul defies all time and space.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Powerful, Space, Soul

  Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.331, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

  Maria Montessori

  Firsts, Intellect

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• Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Slave, Hundred

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.41, Advaita Ashrama

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• Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Sorrow

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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