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

Rebecca Beard
    
The body is our primary feedback mechanism which can show us what
is and isn't working about our ways of thinking, expressing, and living.
As we live our truth more fully and freely, our body grows healthier,
stronger, and more beautiful.

Shakti Gawain

      
The body has to be looked after:  one has to be very caring about
the body and very loving to the body.  And then, its very
spontaneity purifies it, makes it holy.

Osho
  

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

   
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

   

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
   
  
  

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
   

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
 
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
  
  
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
  
I see my body as an instrument rather than an ornament.

Alanis Morissette

If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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

The Buddha
   
When you coordinate your mind and body, you have unlimited access to the wisdom of the universe.

Koichi Tohei
  

   

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
   
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
   

   
Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.

Christopher Reeve
   

To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise
we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and
keep our mind strong and clear.  Water surrounds
the lotus petal, but does not wet its petals.

The Buddha
   
   

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
   

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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
   

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 difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with
just your eyes and reason.  The world becomes a stream of tremendously
rapid, unique events.  So you must trim your body to make it a good
receptor.  The body is an awareness; and it must be treated impeccably.

Carlos Castaneda
   

The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it.
Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.

Michel de Montaigne
   

     
If you want to experience the body, you must live in the body!
That's why the ancient sages and saints didn't know what to do
with their bodies:  they left them when they meditated,
so the body didn't participate at all.

The Mother
    

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than
the intellect.  We can go wrong in our minds.  But what our blood
feels and believes and says, is always true.

D.H. Lawrence
     

The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham
   
    

If you are feeling tired or ill, rest.  Your body will always want rest and ease
if it's sick.  When you become quiet, ask your body what you need to do
in order to heal yourself.  Your body may tell you to change certain habits,
eat more wholesome food, express some feelings, quit your job, see a
doctor, or it may have some other message for you, but there is always an
answer available to you.  The key is to ask and then listen honestly for a response.

Shakti Gawain
   

    
It is the physical body that relates us to the physical universe about us, that in which we find ourselves in this present form of existence.  But the body, wondrous as it is in its functions and its mechanisms, is not the life.  It has no life and no power in itself.  It is of the earth, earthy.  Every particle of it has come from the earth through the food we eat in combination with the air we breathe and the water we drink, and every part of it in time will go back to the earth.  It is the house we inhabit while here.

We can make it a hovel or a mansion; we can make it even a pigsty or a temple, according as the soul, the real self, chooses to function through it. We should make it servant, but through ignorance of the real powers within, we can permit it to become master.

Ralph Waldo Trine
   

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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