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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• Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Meditation, Enlightenment

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• All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well, since we will have a body which is similar to our present physical body, but so much more glorious and wonderful and supernatural. We will be able to eat, drink, be merry and have fun without ever suffering pain or sickness or weariness or death.

  David Berg

  Fun, Pain, Suffering

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• You are going to die. Your physical body will disintegrate. You cannot help that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Body, Helping

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• The world is futile when viewed through the persona of the body. The body is not simply the physical body but it's the body of knowledge of this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, World, Body

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• The eye sees the physical body, other individuals, even insects, worms and things. It sees everything that is within its range. The body too is a thing that the eye sees, along with the rest. So, how can we conclude that the body is the I?

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Eye, Body, Individual

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• With constant practice, one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one’s self useful to himself and all mankind.

  Dharma Mittra

  Attitude, Self, Practice

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• The Soul is a fact, but it is not physical. ... Survivors of near-death experiences attest that some part of them apparently detaches from their physical bodies following the death of the body, but while that is proof of the soul for them, it does not prove it to us. The Soul is like divine music that only God can hear; it is the force of endless resurrection; the soul is like a fire that never goes out.

  Caroline Myss

  Fire, Soul, Doe

  "Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul". Book by Caroline Myss, 2007.

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• It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice and study. Dharma Yoga practice will give one’s body the power and strength to have resistance to common illnesses and diseases. With proper encouragement and increased faith in the Guru, as one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one's self useful to himself and all mankind.

  Dharma Mittra

  Encouragement, Attitude, Yoga

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• The spirit, if it could be seen with mortal eyes, would appear in bodily shape like a full-grown person with individual endowments that make it a counter-part of the body in which it [resides,] "that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is spiritual." (D&C 77:2.) It was that which came from God and entered at birth into the infant body prepared by its mortal parents. The spirit was of the "Lord from heaven." The physical body was "of the earth, earthy," (2 Cor. 15:47) or in other words, composed of the elements of which the things in the physical world are composed.

  Harold B. Lee

  Spiritual, Eye, Parent

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• It seems strange, since the aspect of a woman is power and that her subtle physical body conducts light very well, that more women don't attain enlightenment than men. I would suggest that the reason this is so, is cultural.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Light, Body

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• Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he [Jimmy Carter] puts nostalgia in its place.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Loss, Men, People

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

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• All disease and aging occurs as the subtle physical body breaks down.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Body

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• If you have eternal life at all, it simply means that you have the Son, Jesus Christ ­ NOW! Eternal life is not a peculiar feeling inside! It is not your ultimate destination, to which you will go when you are dead. If you are born again, eternal life is that quality of life that you possess right now, at this very moment, in your own physical body, with your own two feet on the ground, and in the world TODAY! And where does this life come from? Of Him! He is that life! So if you have eternal life, it means that you have Somebody, Jesus Christ, and the life that you possess is of Him.

  W. Ian Thomas

  Jesus, Mean, Son

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• These energies when directed towards the subtle physical body cause the subtle physical body to break down, to lose its lumonisity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Energy

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• Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Survival, Enlightenment

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• True health is only possible when we understand the unity of our minds, emotions, spirits and physical bodies.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Health, Unity

  FaceBook post by Dr. Christiane Northrup from Jan 21, 2009

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• In Heaven, our bodies are going to be the same make, but a new model. Our old, decaying, worn-out natural, physical body will go back to the dust. We will trade it in for an entirely new heavenly model!

  David Berg

  Dust, Heaven, Body

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• We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Intelligent

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer be confined to the physical body and the physical world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Understanding

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