Body Theme

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

My body is but the lees of my better being.

I hate a cramp. It is a treachery of one’s own body.

We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress’d, commands the mind to suffer with the body.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in one’s self.

Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul.

There is no devil and no hell. Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body; fear, therefore, nothing any more!

There is more sagacity in thy body than in thy best wisdom.

The conception and its existence are two sides, distinct yet united, like soul and body. The body is the same life as the soul, and yet the two can be named independently. A soul without a body would not be a living thing, and vice versa. Thus the visible existence of the conception is its body, just as the body obeys the soul which produced it.

The body, love, death, these three are just one.

The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations.