Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.
In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life
When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something.
All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.
He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and the feminine. I want to suggest that today the intersex movement is very engaged with criticizing that idea.
Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.
Sex has to do with imagination, so the sky is the limit. If you're not doing bodily harm, why shouldn't you do what turns you on?
Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick.
By going along with feelings, you unify your emotional, mental and bodily states. When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being.
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities. . . still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.
The greatest gift for an individual or a nation. . . was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.
In the dance the boundaries between body and soul are effaced. The body moves itself spiritually, the spirit bodily.
Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other. Courage is worthy of yet higher respect when danger is faced in defence of claims common to self and others, as in resistance to invasion. Courage is worthy of the highest respect when risk to life or limb is dared in defence of others.
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.
