Body Quotes - Page 27

• In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible to settle into our bodies or stay connected with our hearts, let alone connect with one another or the earth where we live.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Addiction, Demand

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.24, Random House

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• A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

  Jack Kornfield

  Exercise, Practice, Support

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.81, Shambhala Publications

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• There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our sense, of our mind and heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Meditation Practice, Mind

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “Meditation for Beginners: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Animal, Earth

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• The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.

  Jack Kornfield

  Commitment, Earth, Way

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• The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Mind, Special

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• The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, Brain, Littles

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• Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the body and that the body must be denied so that the spirit may be elevated. In Buddhism there is no notion that the body is made of inferior matter while the spirit flies free within.

  Brad Warner

  Sex, Buddhism, Ideas

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.17, New World Library

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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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• To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever

  Dogen

  Self, Forever, Mind

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• The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

  Dogen

  Inspirational, Life, Running

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• Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.

  Stanislav Grof

  Children, Memories, People

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• A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

  Robert Musil

  Degrees, Politician, Climbs

  Robert Musil (1965). “the Man Without Qualities”

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• Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.

  Dorothy Day

  Book, Reading, Men

  Dorothy Day, Robert Ellsberg (2008). “The duty of delight: the diaries of Dorothy Day”, Marquette Univ Pr

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• God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.

  Theodore Roethke

  Roots, Soul, God Bless

  Theodore Roethke (2005). “Selected Poems”

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• The soul has many motions, body one.

  Theodore Roethke

  Soul

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.346, Anchor

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• You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of people are generating heat in my direction, there's no time for thought. My basement facilities take over completely. Sure it's animal. People might like to talk about art, but look where art is, in the gutter.

  David Lee Roth

  Art, Animal, Glasses

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• Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, Maternity, Happens

  "Big new tax – debate over Abbott's parental leave plan [Transcript]". Uhlmann, C., www.abc.net.au. March 09, 2010.

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• Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.

  Mark Steyn

  Ambition, Agency, Hands

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• Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Two, Legislation

  "Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 9, 1961.

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• Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno.

  Steven Morrissey

  Mind, Doe

  "Song: 'Still Ill'". 1984.

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• Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

  Auguste Rodin

  Taken, Torso, Figures

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• In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.

  Auguste Rodin

  Flower, Character, Eye

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• In order for romance to deepen, you must touch the heart and mind of your wife before you touch her body.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Heart, Order, Wife

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• If you have no interest in actually committing yourself to an actual group of gospel-believing, Bible-teaching Christians, you might question whether you belong to the body of Christ at all!

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Believe, Teaching

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