The body is a temple

• The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers. K.S. Iyengar
• Your body is a sacred temple, but only if you treat it as one
• A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body. Gordon B. Hinckley
• My body is a temple, and my temple needs redecorating. Joan Rivers
• Remember, your body is a temple, not a 7-Eleven. Jennifer Love Hewitt
• Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple. Swami Muktananda
• Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. Astrid Alauda
• Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. Henry David Thoreau
• There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. Novalis
• If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows. Sylvia Plath
• Your body is your temple, it’s your home, and you must decorate it. Gabourey Sidibe
• The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. K.S. Lyengar
• Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it’s an amusement park. Jerry Doyle
• The body is God’s temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• There is but one temple – the body. It is the only temple that ever existed. Swami Vivekananda
• Your body is your temple. You do your body good, your body will do you good. Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
• God gave me a great body and it’s my duty to take care of my physical temple. Jean-Claude Van Damme
• I think of my body as a temple. Or at least a relatively well-managed Presbyterian youth center. Emo Philips
• Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That’s how God designed it. Ray Lewis
• There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it. Thomas Carlyle
• Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. Khalil Gibran
• My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not. GG Allin
• The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core. K.S. Iyengar
• If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper. Chuck Palahniuk
• My body is the temple of my soul. It is a gift from God. If I look after it, it will provide me with radiant energy to fulfil my purpose in life.
• Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them. Jose Antonio Carrillo
• The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Honor the physical temple that houses you by eating healthfully, exercising, listening to your body’s needs and treating it with dignity and love. Wayne Dyer
• If there is any true temple, true mosque or true church, it is our own body. This place God has designed for Himself, and He sits within it. Maharaj Charan Singh Ji
• Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body. Saraha
• Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin. Alejandro Jodorowsky
• He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye. Ramana Maharshi
• Since the sanctity of the body is so related to the sanctity of sex, why make the body so common? Why expose to the public eye this sacred thing which is the temple of God? Mark E. Petersen
• Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within. Adi Shankara
• Remember that the body is the temple of the soul. Those who mistreat the body tend to mistreat the soul within. Observe vital health laws, such as exercise, healthy diet, and self- control. Susan Santucci
• It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit? K.S. Iyengar
• The body of a human being is a temple of God. But this temple has to be enlightened and has to be auspicious. You have to clear and clean your being completely so it’s a beautiful temple for God to reside. Nirmala Srivastava
• There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body. Novalis
• It is through this physical body that the highest and greatest purpose of life is achieved. A person only calls it the physical body in ignorance. Once the knowledge has come…he begins to look upon it as the sacred temple of God. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• It is through this physical body that the highest and greatest purpose of life is achieved. A person only calls it the physical body in ignorance. Once the knowledge has come…he begins to look upon it as the sacred temple of God. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. Swami Vivekananda
• You only get one body; it is the temple of your soul. Even God is willing to live there. If you truly treat your body like a temple, it will serve you well for decades. If you abuse it you must be prepared for poor health and a lack of energy. Ollie Hille
• I always say your body is the temple of your spirit, why not decorate it? My kids say, no, no, your body is the temple of your spirit, keep it clean. I’m covered in tattoos and I get a tattoo every time I write a book. I get the tattoo from the book. Bill Ayers
• If we see the body we live in as a temple used to engage in beautiful activities in the service of God’s children, then we recognize it as spiritual. But if we use our body for more selfish purposes, then we’re only experiencing its material conception. Radhanath Swami
• Your relationship with love is your relationship with the essence of who you are. It affects your relationship with your body, and your relationship with food. When you realize that you are a spirit and that this body is a temple, then you want to treat it well. Marianne Williamson
• Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty. That’s why love gives such fullness, such deep contentment, such tremendously overflowing joy. Remain in love and let love be the door to the divine. Rajneesh
• Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed. The mind and body work together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and spirit. If you take good care of it, your body can take you wherever you want to go, with the power and strength and energy and vitality you will need to get there. Jim Rohn
• You’ve been provided with a perfect body to house your soul for a few brief moments in eternity. So regardless of its size, shape, color, or any imagined infirmities, you can honor the temple that houses you by eating healthfully, exercising, listening to your body’s needs, and treating it with dignity and love. Wayne Dyer
• Until you destroy your body, you don’t learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it. Bikram Choudhury
• Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. Henry David Thoreau

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The body is sacred

• The body is a sacred garment. Martha Graham
• My body is precious and not separate from my soul. S.A.R.K.
• If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred. Walt Whitman
• An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure. May Sarton
• Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. Jim Rohn
• My body is beautiful and sacred, and I’m going to celebrate it. India Arie
• Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care. Buddha
• Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too. Muhammad Ali
• Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything. Thich Nhat Hanh
• The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation….It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental. May Sarton
• The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor. Martha Graham
• The Human body is sacred – the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of mankind to develop, protect, and preserve it from pollution, unnecessary wastage, and weakness. Stephen L. Richards