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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is us

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. – Anaïs Nin

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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. – Anaïs Nin

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Miscellaneous
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. – Anaïs Nin

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Self-Discovery
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There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it. – Thomas Carlyle

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Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. – Henry David Thoreau

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He felt it, he said, an honor to wash his face, being, as it was, the temple of the Spirit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very

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Beyond my body my veins are invisible. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The only substance properly so called is the soul. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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