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Letter "P" » physical body
«Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
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Sociologist)
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«Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.»
«But the TRUTH is, I AM, therefore I think! We exist first and then express ourselves as bodies in physical dimension.»
«It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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The Spiritual
«Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.»
Author: Henry Miller
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Author,
Writer)
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The Body
«Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.»
«Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.»
«For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
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Educator,
Social Reformer,
Writer)
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«Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.»
«Mind has no physical form and so it does not perish with the body; only the body perishes.»