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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other read more
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
Hide your body in the Big Dipper
Hide your body in the Big Dipper
The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy read more
The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea read more
I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is read more
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.
If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred
If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred
