physical vessel Quotes

Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed.

Your body is only the garage for your soul.

To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

Our bodies... are the tabernacles of our spirits.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.

I see the human body as your soul's apartment.

How did we get into this funny-looking body that has a hole at one end in which we regularly stuff dead plants and animals? It's bizarre that we got here, incarnated into this world with these bodies.

Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be alright.

Your body is the garage where you park your soul.

The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.