A Quote by Martin Heidegger

We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily.

Martin Heidegger

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Body Rather

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Martin Heidegger
German - Philosopher
September 26, 1889 - May 26, 1976

Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body that rids itself of the desire to eat. Fasting is a time when the soul flourishes and lifts the body up with it. It rids the body of its loads and burdens and lifts it up so that God may work with it without impediment to the happiness of the spiritual entity.

Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

Some passions are bodily, other spiritual. Bodily passions have their sources in the body, while spiritual ones come from external things. But love and temperance cut out both the one and the other: Love cuts out spiritual passions, and temperance bodily ones.

Maximus the Confessor

In the dance the boundaries between body and soul are effaced. The body moves itself spiritually, the spirit bodily.

Gerard van der Leeuw

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

Socrates

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

Eva Zeisel

Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the body to reach the level of cooperation with the soul. When we fast, our intention is not to torture the body but to shun its behaviour. Thus, one who fasts becomes a spiritual and not a physical person. Fasting is an ascetic soul which takes the body with it as its partner in asceticism.

Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

Malcolm de Chazal

The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn out by illness: for thereby the passions are weakened, and a man comes to himself; indeed, bodily illness itself is sometimes caused by the passions.

Seraphim of Sarov

When a pastor continually makes light of the character of our Lord by speaking in scatological tones about the Son of Man's bodily functions in incarnation or wearing T-Shirts that rather mock the King of Righteousness rather than glorify Him, then something is terribly awry.

Steve Camp

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Thomas Jefferson

Every emotion is keyed into some bodily location, and taken all together, they form the emotional body.

Deepak Chopra

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

Ina May Gaskin

We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

Clifford Allbutt

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

Alexander Lowen

It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ