It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds refuse to know it.
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Passion can transform the mind, body and spirit...Passion can align you with the wisdom of nature and the power of what is in your heart.
The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual's autobiography, on the basis of which a notion of identity can be reconstructed repeatedly, by partial activation in topologically organized sensory maps. ... In brief, the endless reactivation of updated images about our identity (a combination of memories of the past and of the planned future) constitutes a sizable part of the state of self as I understand it.The second set of representations underlying the neural self consists of the primordial representations of an individual's body ... Of necessity, this encompasses background body states and emotional states. The collective representation of the body constitute the basis for a "concept" of self, much as a collection of representations of shape, size, color, texture, and taste can constitute the basis for the concept of orange.
Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39)
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.
[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)
I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and __ransformed_ her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?
Every Christian has their place in the body of Christ
Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there__ something dead about it, something deserted.
Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashing throughout your body until it floods your soul. To be honest and to be trustworthy are great attributes. Ah, the power, Ah, the freedom
You can't have a women's body without having her heart, mind and soul if only momentarily.
Before you examine the body of a patient, be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, you will also come to know his body.
Rain on your body burned my heart. (Pluie sur ton corps - Brûla mon coeur.)
Before you diagnose any sickness, make sure there is no sickness in the mind or heart. For the emotions in a man's moon or sun, can point to the sickness in any one of his other parts.
He puts us here to make an eternal difference.He puts us here to show everyone around us how much He loves them.He puts us here to be His hands and feet, His body and His heart.
Watch them describe you to somebody else and see how it long it takes for them to bring up your physical description that'll tell you all.
Mr. McCleod: And if there__ anything I want you guys to take with you from this class, as you__e abusing your bodies over break, is three things: the heart is the body__ strongest muscle, that the brain has more cells in it than our galaxy has stars, and that the body is 72% water. So wherever you go over vacation, don__ get too dehydrated.
Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.