What is the body?
A coming together of elements
which were previously to be found
in water, air, earth, and fire.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

All the powers of the universe
are potentially contained in man and his physical body,
and all this organs are nothing else
but the products and representatives of the powers of Nature.
-Paracelsus

Everything you'll ever need to know is within you;
the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
-Dan Millman

The most profound pilgrimage I can ever make

is within my own body.

-Saraha

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

-William Shakespeare

A healthy mind is a healthy body. 

-Juvenal

The sound body
is the product of the sound mind.
-George Bernard Shaw

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

My body is the objectivity of my will. 

-Arthur Schopenhauer

My body and my will are one.
-Arthur Schopenhauer

Our bodies are our gardens 

to which our wills are gardeners. 

-William Shakespeare

Man whose body is as fragile as a jar,
should make his thoughts firm as a fortress.
-Dhammapada

Body and mind must be solid as a rock.
-Daian

The mind should learn compassionate love for the body.
-Old Alchemical Saying

Body experience...is the center of creation.
-Barbara Hepworth

The human body is an instrument
for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
-Alfred North Whitehead

We are all sculptors and painters,
and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
-Henry David Thoreau

The body is not a thing, it is a situation:
it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
-Simone de Beauvoir

Our bodies are molded rivers.
-Novalis

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically,
if we are willing to listen to them.
-Shakti Gawain

Your body speaks its mind.
-Stanley Keleman

The body says what words cannot.
-Martha Graham

The body never lies.
-Martha Graham

You need to listen to your body
because your body is listening to you.
-Phil McGraw

When the body is finally listened to it becomes eloquent.
It's like changing a fiddle into a Stradivarius.
-Marion Woodman

If you can listen to the wisdom of your body,
love this flesh and bone,
dedicate yourself to its mystery,
you may one day find yourself smiling from your mirror.
-Marion Woodman

My body is a dot in the soul's vast expanse.
-Aurobindo Ghose

In the full realization
the body is within us,
not we in it.
-Aurobindo Ghose

You are not inside your body;
your body is inside you.
-W. Brugh Joy

Be strong then, and enter into your own body;
there your foothold is firm.
-Kabir

The body is the chrysalis of a soul.
-Aurobindo Ghose

The body is only a constant act of consciousness
of the spirit.
-Aurobindo Ghose

Your body is the lovely vehicle
through which Spirit and Soul manifest
according to your current understanding and awareness.
-Rebecca Clark

It is also true that the fate or destiny of each individual
depends on the extent and degree to which the Spirit in man
is able to control, direct and manifest the threads of life
through the cerebro-spinal nervous system.
The electricity of life truly flows through them.
-Inez Eudora Perry

What is form, or what is face,
But the soul's index or its case.
-Nathaniel Cotton

The body is the symbol
of what you think you are.
-A Course in Miracles

The body is the first pupil of the soul.
-Henry David Thoreau

The body is made
for the soul to express it.
-Jean Mouroux

The body is an instrument
or servant of the Soul.
-Sivananda

The better the instrument
the greater the satisfaction of the soul.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Your body is the harp of your soul.
-Kahlil Gibran

Reduced to our own body, our first instrument,
we learn to play it,
drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.
-Yehudi Menuhin

Having a body that is like a musical instrument,
open enough to be able to resonate,
literally resonate with what is coming
both from the inside and from the outside.
-Marion Woodman

The body is not only the necessary outer instrument
of the physical part of action,
but for the purposes of this life
a base or pedestal for all inner action.
-Aurobindo Ghose

The body is the firm foundation
for the mind.
-Deng Ming-Dao

The physical body is the outward manifestation of the mind.
Mind is the subtle form of the physical body.
-Sivananda

Your body is your thoughts
in a form you can see.
-Richard Bach

The mind modulates
what goes on in the body.
-Thomas Delbanco

My body is that part of the world
which can be altered by my thoughts.
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The mind is like the wind and the body is like the sand;
if you want to know how the wind is blowing,
you can look at the sand.
-Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given,
but a continuous creation.
-Norman O. Brown

When attention is fixed on any part of the body
that part becomes a magnet for energy.
-Isha Schwaller de Lubicz

The entire conquest of the body
comes by the conquest of the physical life-energy.
-Aurobindo Ghose

Your body is the church
where Nature asks to be reverenced.
-Marquis de Sade

There is but one temple in the world,
and that is the body of man.
-Novalis

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body,
to the god he worships,
after a style purely his own.
-Henry David Thoreau

Here in the body are the sacred rivers,
here are the sun and the moon,
as well as the pilgrimage places...
I have not encountered another temple
as blissful as my own body.
-Saraha

My body is a means
of communicating love.
-A Course in Miracles

The body is a sacred garment.
-Martha Graham

If anything is sacred the human body is sacred. 

-Walt Whitman

My holiest of holies
is the human body.
-Anton Chekhov

If he were to become true to his own divine nature,
his body would be a body of light,
a perfect expression of beauty.
-Franz Hartmann

He who realizes the truth of the body
can then come to know the truth of the universe.
-Ratnasara Tantra

Live not for your body
but live for your spirit which governs the body,
then the body will be transfigured and illuminated.
-J. Z. Knight "Ramtha"

And if you eventually experience your own body
completely filled with Divine Light,
an event so unforgettable, so overpowering,
you will have no doubt
that the experience came from something beyond the imagination.
-Sivananda Radha

I stand in awe of my body.
-Henry David Thoreau

I sing the body electric.
-Walt Whitman