D. H. Lawrence Quotes

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.

There is a definite correlation between the mind and the body.

The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, aging and entropy accelerate. Restoring mind/body integration brings about renewal. Through conscious breathing and movement techniques, you can renew the body/mind and reverse the aging process.

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind.

We exist solely because we have a body and a mind ? a mind that arises out of the body. If this were true, we would cease to exist after our body was gone.

there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.

The body and mind are dependent.

it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself. The mind hates that.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them.