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“What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.”
Ivan Turgenev
Desire
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Body
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Science
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Curiosity
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Physicality
2.
“Mind is a captive of the body.”
Camille Paglia
Mind
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Body
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Philosophy
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Existence
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Captivity
3.
“When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.”
Camille Paglia
Feminism
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Gender
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Body
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Politics
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Society
4.
“Man’s spiritual trajectory ends in the rubbish heap of his own mother-born body.”
Camille Paglia
Spirituality
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Human
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Body
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Existence
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Fate
5.
“I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.”
Camille Paglia
Body
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Identity
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Intellectualism
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Philosophy
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Society
6.
“Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.”
Camille Paglia
Poetry
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Art
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Mind
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Body
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Philosophy
7.
“The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.”
Camille Paglia
Gender
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Body
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Nature
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Identity
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Philosophy
8.
“Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.”
Steven Wright
Body
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Accidents
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Irony
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Experience
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Humor
9.
“I wear my heart on my sleeve. I wear my liver on my pant leg.”
Steven Wright
Expression
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Emotion
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Body
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Irony
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Humor
10.
“On the other hand, you have different fingers.”
Steven Wright
Perspective
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Body
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Humor
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Wit
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Observation
11.
“If our body sits still, it decays. If our mind sits still, it grows.”
Ankur Warikoo
Body
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Mind
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Movement
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Growth
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Stagnation
12.
“In a cell like mine you very quickly become aware of your body. You can grow to hate your body. And your body is all you have: this was the curious thought that kept floating up through my rage.”
V.S. Naipaul
Isolation
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Body
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Awareness
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Prison
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Reflection
13.
“I wondered that clothes, even the apparently revealing tropical clothes I had seen on Yvette, should have concealed so much, should have broken the body up, as it were, into separate parts and not really hinted at the splendour of the whole.”
V.S. Naipaul
Perception
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Clothing
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Beauty
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Observation
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Body
14.
“Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.”
Ramakrishna
Health
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Body
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Soul
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Suffering
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Life
15.
“As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.”
Ramakrishna
Soul
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Body
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Detachment
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Spirituality
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Freedom
16.
“Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Self-Care
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Awareness
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Healing
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Body
,
Feelings
17.
“When you have a stomach ache you don’t tell your stomach to go away.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Acceptance
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Body
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Understanding
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Health
,
Awareness
18.
“When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Healing
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Relaxation
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Letting Go
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Body
,
Wellness
19.
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Health
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Gratitude
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Body
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Cosmos
,
Well-being
20.
“Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Breath
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Body
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Mind
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Alignment
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Balance
21.
“If the body were to take the soul to court for the pains and suffering it had endured throughout its life, then if he were to be on the jury for the case he would gladly cast his vote against the soul inasmuch as it had destroyed some parts of the body by negligence or dissipated them by drunkenness, and had ruined and ravaged other parts by its pursuit of pleasures – just as he would blame the careless user if a tool or utensil were in a bad condition.”
Democritus
Body
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Soul
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Responsibility
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Indulgence
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Wisdom
22.
“Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.”
Democritus
Sexuality
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Nature
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Body
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Health
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Philosophy
23.
“You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice.”
Leonard Cohen
Body
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Endurance
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Control
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Uncertainty
,
Fate
24.
“A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.”
Leonard Cohen
Body
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Self-image
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Love
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Insecurity
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Struggle
25.
“Your body will never be familiar.”
Leonard Cohen
Mystery
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Identity
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Body
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Self
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Change
26.
“I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.”
Thomas Merton
Universe
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People
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Control
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Body
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Self-awareness
27.
“Ninety percent of the people don’t realize that there is anything below the head. They think that the head is carried around by something very mysterious, and they’re not aware that it’s the body, something they should be in tune with.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Awareness
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Body
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Health
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Fitness
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Perception
28.
“The body is very important, but the mind is more important than the body.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Mindset
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Body
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Strength
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Health
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Growth
29.
“For by no wisdom can natural weakness of the body be removed. That which is implanted and inborn can be toned down by training, but not overcome.”
Seneca
Body
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Strength
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Limitations
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Training
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Self-Improvement
30.
“Embodied cognition is the science linked with the ancient science of mantra-tantra-yantra systems. It deals with body-mind and ego simultaneously as an integrated system. It encompasses biological, psychological and cultural context together.”
Amit Ray
Cognition
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Science
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Body
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Mind
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Integrated System
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