Top 1200 Mind Body Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Life is not the body; it is not the mind; it is not the soul. It is a force.

Lust weakens both body and mind.

As brain functioning becomes more and more integrated, consciousness - the mind - becomes more and more invincible, and then any dictate of the mind is immediately followed by the body.

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.

Yoga is the best thing for your sex life. It keeps you limber in all kinds of ways. It teaches you to love your body and your partner's body. But more than anything, it keeps your mind liquid, and nothing's sexier than that.

If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.

The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.

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.

Where the mind goes the body will follow.

Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

When you are simply observing your breath, you are perceiving an automatically unfolding process in your body. By contrast, when you are observing your wandering mind, you are also experiencing the spontaneous activity of a process in your body.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Society is our extended mind and body.

This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes the soul outside the sphere of mechanical or scientific explanation. It splits the world of the mind from the world of science. It is often supposed to protect our cherished free will.

The body remembers what your mind forgets.

You are not a soul, you are not a mind, you are not a body. You are the controller of all three.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

The body will blossom and fade, but you will remain after this body of yours has gone away. This knowledge allows you to love the body without attachment. Thus, the body becomes absolutely pure.

It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.

Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.

Backbends are not poses meant for expressionism. Backbends are meant to understand the back parts of our bodies. The front body can be seen with the eyes, but the back body can only be felt. That's why I say these are the most advanced postures, where the mind begins to look at the back.

The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.

Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided as they are inter-related and but different aspects of the same all-pervading divine consciousness.

I've always had a little pooch. I just always have - that's just my body type. No matter how skinny I've been, it's always there. And now that I've had kids, I sort of don't mind as much because, you know what? What my stomach and my body went through is truly a miracle.

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

At the very center of our being is rhythmic movement, a cyclic expansion and contraction that is both in our body and outside it, that is both in our mind and in our body, that is both in our consciousness and not in it.

Being physically fit doesn't mean anything if the mind isn't fit and being fit in the mind is not worth much if the body is suffering.

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Whatever you habitually think sinks into the subconscious. The subconscious is the seat of the emotions and is a creative mind. Once subconscious accepts an idea, it begins to execute it. Whatever you feel is true, your subconscious will accept and bring forth into experience.

It is the mind itself which builds the body.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

If the body is pampered, the mind is free to concentrate.

If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.

Fear in the mind causes stress in the body.

One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

My MIND POWER gave me this body.

There is a definite correlation between the mind and the body.

The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.

If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic. Japa will bestow good health to both mind and body.

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

The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.

I've always been fascinated by the body and the mind.

There cannot be an animal body without a territorial body: three bodies are grafted over each other: the territorial body - the planet, the social body - the couple, and the animal body - you and me. And technology splits this unity, leaving us without a sense of where we are. This, too, is de-realization.

I let go of all negativity that rests in my body and mind

If one can control one's mind, the body follows suit.

There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.

A healthy mind can live in an unhealthy body.

What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?

I think, mind over body, it's real.