What we feel

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

~Aldous Huxley

If the mind

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

Our bodies

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically,
if we are willing to listen.

~Shakti Gawain

A sound mind

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

~John Locke

It's hard

“It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”

~Sally Kempton

Few of us

Few of us have lost our minds,
but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.

~Ken Wilbur

The mind's first step

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

~George Sheehan

The human body

The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.

~Julien Offroy de la Mettrie

Body and mind

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Why

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body?

~Thomas Hardy

Our own physical body

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

~Henry Miller

The mind

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

~Saint Augustine

If the body

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

~Thomas Jefferson

Our bodies

Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners.

~William Shakespeare

Our bodies

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

~Frank Gillette Burgess

There is more

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies.

~Friedrich Nietzche

Man is

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

~Aldous Huxley

Every man

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.

~Henry David Thoreau

The body is

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

~George Santayana

A trembling

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

~Llewelyn Powers