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An uninspired mind creates a lack of energy for the body, resulting in a lack of performance filled with excuses.

Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without the other. Since the body can only exist in the present, that__ where the mind should be too (unless we deliberately choose to contemplate the past or future). At the same time, the body needs to be healthy and in optimum operating condition so that it can respond effectively to the mind__ directives.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

Think of how you feel when you are sick, or how you felt when you were learning to ride your bike. The physical state of your body has a direct effect on how you think about the world, on the state of your mind. I don__ think it would be an exaggeration to say that your body has a direct effect on who you are

Nakamura Tempu Sensei viewed the mind as a segment of the body that could not be seen and the body as the element of the mind that was observable. He also likened the mind and body to a stream, with the mind as the source flowing down to the body. Whatever we drop in the stream will be carried down by the current. In like manner, our thoughts will influence the body and our well being.

Where our attention goes, our mind and body go, too.

My body felt like tangled rubber bands and dried-out pens and sticky paper clips, like the contents of a drawer where you put the things you don't have anywhere else to put, and I knew that the mind and body are connected, and that my bodily sensations were just messages from my mind, but I just wished there was a box or a drawer or a hole in the ground where I could put all this, all this mind and body stuff that I didn't know what else to do with.

Silent our body is a sacred temple, A place to connect with other people. Can't we just stay any younger? Really, we might keep it stronger, Elated, rather than so tilted or feeble!!

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.

Games lubricate the body and mind.

Each action we take is an act of self-expression. We often think of large-scale or important deeds as being indications of our real selves, but even how we sharpen a pencil can reveal something about our feelings at that moment. Do we sharpen the pencil carefully or nervously so that it doesn__ break? Do we bother to pay attention to what we__e doing? How do we sharpen the same pencil when we__e angry or in a hurry? Is it the same as when we__e calm or unhurried?Even the smallest movement discloses something about the person executing the action because it is the person who__ actually performing the deed. In other words, action doesn__ happen by itself, we make it happen, and in doing so we leave traces of ourselves on the activity. The mind and body are interrelated.

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

Mental strength induces mind and body.

We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day. (p.28)

Live to learn to love. Learn to love to live. Love to live to learn so that you may live the life that you yearn.