Features

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies,
telling friends and strangers alike
of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
-Marilyn Ferguson

After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies.
We get to be responsible for our faces.
-Cynthia Ozick

For after all we make our faces as we go along.
-May Sarton

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
-Enid Blyton

I believe that the way you feel about your life
will eventually show up on your face.
-Julia Roberts

The face is the mirror of the mind,
and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
-Saint Jerome

On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion
are eternally at work.
-Alexander Smith

The countenance is more eloquent
than the tongue.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater

Good looks are mental...
no way out of looking like our thoughts
except to think something else.
-Robert Jackson

Internal things shine forth through the countenance.
-Emanuel Swedenborg

There is no shine of sun, of lamps, or of rose-cut diamonds,
so dazzling and beautiful
as certain shinings of the face when a high thought burns through it.
-Frank Crane

Do we ever forget the face that shines as the sun?
-Christian Larson

It is particularly through the hands
that the will expresses itself.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Hands hold much of heat in little storage.
-John Crowe Ransom

Each finger is like an antenna
which receives and transmits waves
of different kinds circulating in space.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Every detail of the skin has a meaning.
Even its consistency -
smooth, supple, hard, flaccid, soft -
reflects the qualities, the essential characteristics of a person:
his resistance, his will power, his activity,
or on the contrary, his laziness and his deficiencies.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Each spot on the body is symbolical of an inner movement;
there is there a world of subtle correspondences...
The particular place in the body affected by an illness
is an index to the nature of the inner disharmony that has taken place.
It points to the origin, it is a sign of the cause of the ailment.
-Mirra Alfassa, "The Mother"

The foot represents
the state and destiny of the soul.
-Paul Diel

The feet bear the burden of the body,
the head the burden of the mind,
and the heart the burden of the spirit.
-Pearl Buck