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Saint Teresa of Avila

"Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds."

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"Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds."

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"Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures."

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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

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"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."

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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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Asa Don Brown

"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."

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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

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"The body has a mind of its own."

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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

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"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

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"To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that."
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"God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person."
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"God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher."
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