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Your body is a sacred temple, but only if you treat it as one 

• There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. Novalis
• Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care. Buddha
• 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.
• 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
• Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.  Astrid Alauda
• The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. K.S. Lyengar
• 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
• If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred. Walt Whitman
• Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple. Swami Muktananda
• The body is a sacred garment. Martha Graham
• 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
• My body is precious and not separate from my soul. S.A.R.K.
• There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.  Thomas Carlyle
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Your body is the foundation of your life and freedom 

• To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Buddha
• Your body, the only one you will ever have, is the foundation of your life. And it’s either an anchor limiting your freedom and potential or a source of radiant energy, vitality and joy, elevating your life and the lives of those around you. Shawn Phillips
• In health, there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. Henri-Frederic Amiel
• If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. Thomas Jefferson
• If your body’s not right, the rest of your day will go all wrong. Take care of yourself. Terri Guillemets
• He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. Proverb
• The body is our general medium for having a world. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live 

• Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. Jim Rohn
• If you don’t take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given…where are you going to live? Karyn Calabrese
• A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.  Phillip Moffitt
• A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. Francis Bacon
• Health is the result of relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly.  A Course In Miracles
• Our body is…a vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care. Buddha
• Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. Jim Rohn
• 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
• Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything. Thich Nhat Hanh
• The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril.  The body ought to be the soul’s best friend.  Many good men however have neglected to make it such:  so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.  Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
• If you don’t take care of your body, where will you live?
• Yet this is health: To have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met, it never calls attention to its own existence.  Bertha Stuart Dyment
• Exercise, play, move. Stretch, feel, reach, sweat. Skip, dance, hug!  Use the body God gave you, don’t let it rot. Terri Guillemets
• If your body’s not right, the rest of your day will go all wrong. Take care of yourself. Terri Guillemets
• The body has to be looked after: one has to be very caring about the body and very loving to the body.  And then, it’s very spontaneity purifies it, makes it holy.  Osho
• 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 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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Nurture your body with physical exercise 

• Exercise is good for your mind, body, and soul.  Susie Michelle Cortright
• Wholesome exercise in the free air, under the wide sky, is the best medicine for body and spirit.  Sarah Louise Arnold
• Exercise, play, move. Stretch, feel, reach, sweat. Skip, dance, hug! Use the body God gave you, don’t let it rot.  Terri Guillemets
• The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. Thomas Jefferson
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Nourish your body with healthy food 

• Fuel your body with premium fuel and it will provide you with the strength and stamina to live well. Cheryl Richardson
• If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk. Goldie Hawn
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Keeping your body healthy is important for a strong mind and soul 

• To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Buddha
• 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.
• 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
• As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul. Mahatma Gandhi
• What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. Aldous Huxley
• An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body. George S. Patton Jr.
• If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. Thomas Jefferson
• 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
• Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. Leonardo da Vinci
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The body has amazing power to heal itself 

• It’s supposed to be a professional secret, but I’ll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing.  We only help and encourage the doctor within.  We are at best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.  Albert Schweitzer
• Your body has natural healing capacities that nobody in the field of medicine can pretend ultimately to understand. If you break a bone it will heal itself.  All the doctor does is make sure the pieces of the bone are properly set back together.  Wayne Dyer
• The human body has an amazing natural ability to defend, repair, heal, and even rejuvenate itself. Dr. Alejandro Junger
• The body is a self-healing organism, so it’s really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself. Barbara Brennan
• The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. Robert C. Peale
• Remove physiological stress from the body, and the body does what it was designed to do. It heals itself. Dr Ben Johnson
• We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organ—with no side effects. Deepak Chopra
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Learn to love and accept your body 

• You’ve got your body for life, you might as well learn to get along with it. Sandy Kumskov
• Peace, Love, Hope and Confidence are the ingredients to good body image. Dr Vivian Mehan
• Start living life fully now, in your present body, because waiting until you lose weight is a big old waste of time. Linda Bacon
• There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. Steve Maraboli
• You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. We all are. And you are beautiful. Amy Bloom
• So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind. Georg Feuerstein
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Revere your body as the amazing temple and miracle it is 

• There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. Novalis
• 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.
• Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. Astrid Alauda
• Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple. Swami Muktananda
• Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body. Saraha
• If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred. Walt Whitman
• The human body is the best work of art. Jess C. Scott
• Your body is a beautiful manifestation powered by spirit. Mike Dolan
• The body is a sacred garment. Martha Graham
• Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own. Mary Schmich
• As I explore the wilderness of my own body, I see that I am made of blood and bones, sunlight and water, pesticide residues and redwood humus, the fears and dreams of generations of ancestors, particles of exploded stars. Anne Cushman
• Your body is a flower that life let bloom…. Ilchi Lee
• What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed? Michelangelo

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Enjoy your body 

• Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. Anthony Bourdain
• Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun. Woody Allen
• The Church says: The body is a sin. Science says: The body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The body says: I am a fiesta. Eduardo Galeano
• The body is a bundle of careful compromises. Randolph Nesse and George Williams
• Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences. Robert Brault
• Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much? Jason Love
• I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don’t expect me to tell you to stop. Robert Brault
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Bring awareness to the body 

• Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are. Jack Kornfield
• The mind’s first step to self-awareness must be through the body. George Sheehan
• Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies. Ken Wilbur
• Mindfulness of the body is awareness of… the taste and smell of this moment. Steve Hagen
• 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
• 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
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Listen to your body 

• 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
• What can you do to start listening to your body? The most basic elements are as follows: Feel what you feel. Don’t talk yourself into denial. Accept what you feel. Don’t judge what’s actually there. Be open to your body. It’s always speaking. Be willing to listen. Trust your body. Every cell is on your side, which means you have hundreds of billions of allies.  Deepak Chopra
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The body contains much wisdom and inner knowing 

• There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies. Friedrich Nietzche
• A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain. Llewelyn Powers
• The body never lies. Martha Graham
• Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. Henry Miller
• Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen. Shakti Gawain
• The body is wiser than its inhabitants. The body is the soul. The body is God’s messenger. Erica Jong
• There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars. John Harold Johnson
• Sometimes your body is smarter than you are.
• I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. Herman Hesse
• 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
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a wise and intuitive counsellor 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
• When you coordinate your mind and body, you have unlimited access to the wisdom of the universe.  Koichi Tohei
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True health and well-being requires a harmony between body, mind and soul

• A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.   John Locke
• True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.   Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
• Mind, body, and spirit act in concert to determine health and well-being.  Dr Carl Thoresen
• To live without love, compassion, or any other spiritual value creates a state of such severe imbalance that every cell yearns to correct it. Ultimately, that is what lies behind the onset of disease; the body is sending a message that something lacking in the present—an imbalance existing somewhere—has given rise to highly visible, unarguable, physical symptoms. Deepak Chopra
• The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all parts work together. Kurdish Saying
• Health is a relationship between you and your body. Terri Guillemets
• The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity. Boris Pasternak
• True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. Humboldt
• Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.  Henry David Thoreau
• Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other.  Candace Pert
• The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.  Plato
• Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one and indivisible.  Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies.  C. Jeff Miller
• The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.   B.K.S. Iyengar
• A really spiritual person will live life as an art, will create a deep harmony between the body and the consciousness. And this is the greatest art there is. His life will be a joy to see. Osho
• Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.  Gabriela Sabatini
• Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.  Deepak Chopra
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The mind has great influence over the body

• The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind. Hazrat Khan
• What the mind has forgotten, the body remembers long after. Lilias Folan
• The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.  Jean Baptiste Moliere
• Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.  Cicero
• Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.  Martin Luther
• Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.  Zacharty Bercovitz
• Wellness that is being allowed, or the wellness that is being denied, is all about the mindset, the mood, the attitude, the practiced thoughts. There is not one exception, in any human or beast; because, you can patch them up again and again, and they will just find another way of reverting back to the natural rhythm of their mind. Treating the body really is about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic. Every bit of it, no exceptions.  Esther Hicks
• So great a power is there of the soul upon the body, that whichever way the soul imagines and dreams, thither doth it lead the body.   Agrippa
• If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life. Franz Alexander
• Hate and fear can poison the body as surely as any toxic chemicals. Joseph Krimsky
• The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies. Terri Guillemets
• It is the mind that makes the body.  Sojourner Truth
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To keep a healthy body, keep your mind happy and positive

• The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately. Plato
• In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.  Cicero
• Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.  John Armstrong
• The more consciousness you bring into the body, the stronger the immune system becomes. It is as if every cell awakens and rejoices.  It is also a potent form of self- healing.  Eckhart Tolle
• Hate and fear can poison the body as surely as any toxic chemicals.   Joseph Krimsky
• The body is sensitive. It registers every thought and feeling. Be tender with it.   Brendan O’Regan
• Every single cell in your body is affected by every single thought that you have.  Jack Canfield
• Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry. A happier, healthier body. Dr John Hagelin
• I admit thoughts influence the body. Albert Einstein
• There is no question that the things we think have a tremendous effect upon our bodies. If we can change our thinking, the body frequently heals itself.  C. Everett Koop, M.D.
• For a strong mind and soul, keep your body healthy
• To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.   Buddha
• You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.  Luc de Clapiers
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Nourish and exercise all aspects of yourself

• The older I get, the more I realise the importance of exercising the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind, and heart.  Taken together, these aspects give me a sense of wholeness.  I want to be a whole human being rather than one who limps on one leg because I don’t know how to use all of my parts.  Intellectual, emotional, and physical activity are not separate entities.  Rather, they are dimensions of the same human being.  Robert Fulghum
• Empowered choices are “whole choices” that take your mind, body and soul into consideration.  Danielle LaPorte
• If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.  Brian Koslow
• I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being – a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.  Yehudi Menuhin
• True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. William Penn
• I certainly believe that being in contact with one’s spirit and nurturing one’s spirit is as important as nurturing one’s body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.  Laurence Fishburne
• In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these two means man can attain perfection.  Plato

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Your body is your autobiography

• Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. Frank Gillette Burgess
• My body is a bulletin board, transmitting my condition. Terri Guillemets

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Your body is not who you are 

• 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.  Frederick Vogt
• Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body. Christopher Reeve
• 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.  M.H. Atwater
• You are not in the body, the body is in you! The mind is in you. They happen to you. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Once you give up your identification with the body, then you are all the time the Self, or Atman, only. For this, no effort is required. You only have to realize that you are not the body. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Realise once for all that neither your body nor your mind, nor even your consciousness is yourself and stand alone in your true nature beyond consciousness and unconsciousness. No effort can take you there, only the clarity of understanding. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• It is not so much a question of actual giving up the body and all that goes with it, as a clear understanding that you are not the body. A sense of aloofness, of emotional non-involvement. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Q: If the self is not the body nor the mind, can it exist without the body and the mind?  M: Yes, it can. It is a matter of actual experience that the self has being independent of mind and body. It is being — awareness — bliss.  Nisargadatta Maharaj
• You are experiencing something right now. So you are an experiencer of experiences. The ‘experiencer’ is your essential identity which you call ‘I’.  The ‘I’ is aware of an ever-changing stream of experiences right now.  But what is the ‘I’?  Is the ‘I’ your body?  The body is something you are experiencing.  Tim Freke
• I am thinking; therefore I exist. (…) I was a substance whose whole essence or nature is solely to think, and which does not require any place, or depend on any material thing, in order to exist. Accordingly, this ‘I’ – that is, the soul by which I am what I am – is entirely distinct from the body, and indeed is easier to know than the body, and would not fail to be whatever it is, even if the body did not exist. Descartes
• This is because the ‘I’ is not the body or mind. The ‘I’ is awareness witnessing the body and mind.  Tim Freke
• The body is like a companion, a friendly pet that follows one around…One can continue to own the body and be responsible for it without identifying with it as one’s identity. David R. Hawkins
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Thoughts on parts of the body 

• 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.  H. Auden
• Skin is a covering for our immortality. Terri Guillemets
• We don’t stop at our skin. Dolores Krieger
• Our feet are our body’s connection to the earth. Andrew Weil
• Make your feet your friend. M. Barrie
• Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Kabir
• A woman is as young as her knees. Mary Quant

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• I’m in good shape. That shape is round. Jarod Kintz 
• The trouble with having a body is that people know it’s where you hang out and you don’t get any privacy. Robert Brault 
• The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts. Hermann M. Biggs 
• Abdicate, v.: to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. 
• Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. William Osler 
• The way he treats his body, you’d think he was renting. Robert Brault 
• If we were meant to be nude, we would have been born that way.
• A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. Christopher Morley

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