mind-body connection quotes

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.