"True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

Body, Mind, Rest, Silence

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"True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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