The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pa

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts. – Samuel Butler, Notebooks

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Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other. – Candace Pert

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Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds. – Zacharty Bercovitz

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Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all. – Marion Woodman

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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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