Quotes about Body

Faith is a quality of being: of being in touch with oneself, with life, and with the universe. It is a sense of belonging to one’s community, to one’s country and to the earth. Above all it is a feeling of being grounded in one’s body, in one’s humanity, and in one’s animal nature. It can be all of these things because it is a manifestation of life, an expression of the living force that unites all beings. It is a biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation.

Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her  aliveness, brightness of his eyes, in the resonance of her voice and in the ease and gracefulness of his movements. These qualities are related to and stem from a high level of energy in the body... Sensing the harmony between the internal pulsation of our body and that in the universe, we feel identified with the universal, with God. We are like tuning forks vibrating at the same pitch (Lowen,1995, 314-315. )

Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation

Crying, that is, sobbing is the earliest and deepest way to release tension. Infants can cry almost from the moment of birth, and do so easily following every stress that produces a state of tension in the body... Human beings are the only creatures who can react in this way to stress and tension. Most probably, they are the only ones who need this form of release.

"A person with faith does not question its roots, for he knows that if he subjected it to the critical examination of his intellect, he would end up without faith. The same thing can be said of any feeling. You can analyze any feeling to death, but when you do that, you end up without feeling and without a meaninful life."

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

Every single cell in our body is spying on our thoughts.

The power that made the body is the power that heals the body.

The body is a sacred garment.  It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body.  I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out.

On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound.  Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.  You see without assistance from the eyes, over distances beyond the visual horizon.  There are moments when existence appears independent even of the mind.  The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values.

For unmeasurable periods, I seem divorced from my body, as though I were an awareness spreading out through space, over the earth and into the heavens, unhampered by time or substance, free from the gravitation that binds to heavy human problems of the world.  My body requires no attention.  It's not hungry.  It's neither warm or cold.  It's resigned to being left undisturbed.  Why have I troubled to bring it here?  I might better have left it back at Long Island or St. Louis, while the weightless element that has lived within it flashes through the skies and views the planet.  This essential consciousness needs no body for its travels.  It needs no plane, no engine, no instruments, only the release from flesh which circumstances I've gone through make possible.

Then what am I - the body substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands?  Or am I this realization, this greater understanding which dwells within it, yet expands through the universe outside; a part of all existence, powerless but without need for power; immersed in solitude, yet in contact with all creation?  There are moments when the two appear inseparable, and others when they could be cut apart by the merest flash of light.

While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds.  It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world.  Logic is transcendental.

When the body is urged to participate with the universe, it creates access routes for emotionality and intellectuality as well.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

We all have great untapped potential for self-healing.  Our bodies are infinitely wise and want to be well.  Our hearts want to express the boundless compassion and joy that is our true identity.

Age is reforming our bodies to better roll with the punches!

Find the cost of freedom buried in the ground
Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down

The body believes in images.

For the body at best
   Is a bundle of aches,
Longing for rest;
   It cries when it wakes.

The Earth is like our body, and mankind is our mind; we can't take care of only one if we want to thrive as a civilization.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and mind.

"I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am." Ram Dass, in a conversaton on Experience

Don't separate the mind from the body.  Don't separate even character - you can't.  Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously.
Disease is one of our languages.  Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself.  It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

" Life is like riding a vehicle. Your body is the vehicle and your sole, the rider!"

Separation Exists Only in human Mind.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

The Body is the passive structure of the active potential Spirit, as the Mind is the active structure of the passive potential Soul.

For most women, beauty and body issues are the easiest path to awakening, because the pain is so very close to the surface and the inner critic’s voice is the easiest to hear. The beauty of awakening is getting this, down to your bones, so that the world no longer needs to play our internal dramas on the backdrop of life. We can watch the drama as it comes and goes, maybe making a genuine wise crack, or just laughing at our own antics.

We stop looking to manifest abundance; we are abundance. Even without a job. Even when you give away the majority of what you create. Even when there is no one but ourselves standing at the finish line to thank us for doing out part to help save the world.