Quotes for the Journey: The Body If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred. Walt Whitman

You are not your body.  It is just something you wear for a while, because living in the earthplane is infinitely more meaningful and more involved if you are encased in its trappings and subject to its rules.       -P.M.H. Atwater     The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken.  All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.       -Ralph Waldo Emerson     To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.       -The Buddha     Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a wise and intuitive counselor available 24/7?  You're in luck--you already have one.  Your body!  Our bodies carry ancient wisdom.  We literally live within a temple of intuitive and instinctive wisdom.  Sometimes we pay attention and access body wisdom; but unfortunately, the aphorism "Mrs. Smith lived a short distance from her body" is sadly true for many of us.       -Sue Patton Thoele     Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.       -Christopher Reeve      The body is the soul's house.  Shouldn't we therefore take care of our house so that it doesn't fall into ruin?       -Philo Judaeus

People make the mistake of identifying themselves with their body, then if something happens to a person's body, they think something has happened to the person.  When you think about it, that's as ridiculous as saying that if something happens to the clothing I'm wearing, something has happened to me.  Our body is just what we wear. . . We need to take care of it, but it's not who we are.       -H. Frederick Vogt

My body is so important to me.  My face, my arms, my legs, my hands, my eyes, everything.  I use everything I have.       -Monica Belluci

My body has taught me many things, all of them filled with soul:  how to dance and make love, mourn and make music; now it is teaching me how to heal.  I am learning to heed the shifting currents of my body--the subtle changes in temperature, muscle tension, thought and mood--the way a sailor rides the wind by reading the ripples on the water.       -Kat Duff

In Extremis    I saw my toes the other day. I hadn’t looked at them for months. Indeed, they might have passed away. And yet, they were my best friends once. When I was small, I knew them well I counted on them up to ten And put them in my mouth to tell The larger from the lesser. Then I loved them better than my ears, My elbows, and heart. But with the swelling of the years We drifted, toes and I, apart. Now, gnarled and pale, each said, j‘accuse!— I hid them quickly in my shoes. John Updike

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.       -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The body has its own way of knowing, a knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth, little to do with control, and much to do with acceptance, little to do with division and analysis and much to do with union.       -Marilyn Sewell

When you coordinate your mind and body, you have unlimited access to the wisdom of the universe.      -Koichi Tohei

Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz--something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.       -Chungliang Al Huang

William Blake says the body is "that portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses."  I live with that idea.  I sit and look out my window here in Canada and the autumn trees are golden against the blue sky.  I can feel their "food" coming into my eyes and going down, down, down, interacting inside, and I fill up with gold.  My soul is fed.  I see, I smell, I taste, I hear, I touch.  Through the orifices of my body, I give and I receive.  I am not trying to capture what is absent.  It's that interchange between the embodied soul and the outside world that is the dynamic process.  That's how growth takes place.  That is life.       -Marion Woodman

Our body is a machine for living.  It is organized for that, it is its nature.  Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.       -Lev Tolstoy

I see my body as an instrument rather than an ornament.        -Alanis Morissette

Bless your body always.  Speak no word of condemnation about it.       -Rebecca Beard

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

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