comparisons

"Adam and Eve began the mass production of the human body, but Cain and Abel began that of the soul."

"Was anyone asking to see the soul? | Look at your shape, your appearance, people, substances, animals, trees, running rivers, rocks, sands. || All contain spiritual joys, which later emanate; | How can the real body die and be buried? || Of your true body, and of the true body of each man, of each woman, | each element will escape the hands of the gravediggers by transmigrating towards appropriate spheres, | carrying with him all that has enriched him, from the moment of birth to the hour of death. || The characters arranged by the printer do not convey the impression, the meaning, the main sense, | more than the substance and life of a man make him in body and soul, | indifferently, before death or after death. || Observe, the body includes and affirms the meaning, the main purpose, includes and affirms the soul; | whoever you are, how superb and divine is your body, or each part of it!"

"He who has a well-disposed body resists heat and cold; Likewise, those whose souls are in good condition can tolerate anger, sadness, great joy and every other emotion."

"What the eye is to the body, reason is to the soul."

"As a body everyone is individual, as a soul never."

"Just as the spider, standing in the center of the web, as soon as a fly breaks one of its threads, it notices it and quickly runs to it as if it feels bad for the thread breaking, so the soul of man, when a part of the body is injured , quickly goes there as if it could not bear the injury to the body to which it is permanently joined and according to a specific relationship."

"Just as the bark protects its trunk from cold, wind and water, so our body must protect our soul from temptation, greed and bad weather."

"How can we not see that nature asks us for nothing else with imperious cries, other than that the body be free from pain, and that the soul enjoys a joyful feeling free from worries and fears?"

"How can harmony exist between body and soul if the latter is ready at any moment to save itself at the expense of the body."

"Body and soul, or they will be two hands clasped in eternal adoration, or two wrists cuffed for eternal captivity."

"Just as pain is a sensation necessary for the preservation of our body, suffering is necessary for the preservation of our soul. :*Lev Tolstoy, Ciclo di letture, 28 October; quoted in Tatiana Tolstoj, p. 204."

""Heart" indicates precisely this overall play of man's perceptive forces, in which the correct intertwining of body and soul is also at stake, which belongs to the totality of the creature called "man". The fundamental affective disposition of man also depends precisely on this unity of soul and body and on the assumption that he accepts both his being body and his being spirit; who subjects the body to the discipline of the spirit, without however isolating reason or will but, accepting himself from God, also recognizes and lives the corporeality of existence as a richness for the spirit."

"Since our inner experiences consist of reproducing and combining sensory impressions, the concept of the soul without the body seems completely meaningless to me."

"It is better not to have the health of the body than to compromise the life of the soul."

"– Is it true that the soul has a body? – What are you saying? It is the body that has a soul. – Too bad, I thought the opposite."

"From the origin of life, therefore, body and soul perceive the same vital movements and share them, even when the human being is still in the maternal womb, so that their separation determines their mutual end: their unique survival, as their nature is unique. :*Tito Lucrezio Caro, Vivere laico, Paolo Marsich (editor), Oscar Mondadori, 2007, p. 43."

"I have declared that the soul is not worth more than the body, | and I have declared that the body is no more than the soul."

"I have always had this relationship for a long time... this bad relationship with my body and this terrible fear of sex and this terror of impurity that had been instilled in me since I was little. [...] I have always had close to me, in an enveloping (and also murky) way [...], priests who have always inculcated this idea of ​​chastity in me. Chastity, impurity, impurity and chastity. Continuously. These priests followed me. They also often came to my house, they were friends of my parents. They were very concerned about my spiritual life. Indeed, it seemed to me that they almost wanted to cultivate in me a chosen, particular creature like that. They wanted to take care of my soul a lot, but in taking care of my soul they made me experience my body in a schizophrenic way as if it were a shell to be forgotten."

"Pleasure unites bodies, pain unites souls."

"Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Blood and skin are but the bars of our confinement. But you need not fear. Flesh is destined to decay, death turns everything to ash, and in doing so frees the soul from its jailer."

"The body is the story of the soul."

"The body can give in to desire, without the soul participating."

"The pain of the soul is much worse than the pain of the body."

"The features of the soul surpass those of the body in beauty."

"The pallor shows us the extent to which the body can understand the soul."

"The bread of the body, without that of the soul, reduces man like a beast, and concerns him only with the life that passes, while he wanders in the world to achieve immortal life. It is an immense suffering to see that men only talk about material affairs, to see them anxious to make money, and completely or almost completely forgetful of their soul!"

"Tantra does not condemn the body. Tantra is a total acceptance of things for what they are. Christian theologians and those of other religions condemn the body. They create a dualism, a dichotomy, splitting you in two and saying that the body is the enemy, evil and must be fought. This duality is fundamentally wrong: it will divide your soul in two and create a split personality."

"Your body is the harp of the soul and it is up to you to make sweet music or confused sounds from it."

"In reality, however, our life consists only of the awareness of the spiritual being enclosed within the confines of the body."

"The soul helps the body and at certain times lifts it. It is the only bird that supports its cage."

"The soul of man is nourished by learning, just as the body is nourished by food."

"The soul desires to be with his body, because, without the organic instruments of this body, it can do nothing or feel anything."

"The soul is the body that functions; the body is dead, the soul is dead."

"The soul and the body are not two different things, but just two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology represent just two different attempts to unify our experiences through systematic thinking."

"The soul came to the body and the body to life for the purpose of evolving."

"Is the soul a shadow dwelling in the sin chest? Or is the body really in the soul as Giordano Bruno thought?"

"The soul is born old but becomes younger: this makes life a comedy. The body is born young but gets old: this makes life a tragedy."

"The harmony of soul and body... what a great thing! In our madness we separate them and have invented a realism that is vulgar and an idealism that is empty."

"The intention of the soul is more powerful than the bondage of the body."

"man truly becomes himself when body and soul find themselves in intimate unity; the challenge of eros can be said to be truly overcome when this unification is successful. If man aspires to be only spirit and wants to reject the flesh as a merely animalistic inheritance, then spirit and body lose their dignity. And if, on the other hand, he denies the spirit and therefore considers matter, the body, as an exclusive reality, equally loses its greatness."

"Man can do everything for his soul, but he can do almost nothing for his body. He can be saved from everything, even hell, but he cannot be saved from being a miserable, miserable animal."

"Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body."

"Never tell a child: you have a soul. Teach him: you are a soul, you have a body."

"Neither the soul nor the body, taken separately, is man: what is called by this name is what is born from their union."

"I don't care about the body - I love the soul, the shy, modest, shy soul - which hides because it is afraid, and the bold and intrusive body - sorry ma'am, did you call me?"

"No, it is not the body that is sick. It's the soul! Rather than a doctor... a confessor."

"It is not possible to give satisfaction to the Soul and to the body, one of the two must lose it, but lose, lose the body, for it too will one day benefit greatly."

"There is no need to search whether the soul and the body are one, just as one does not do so for the wax and the imprint."

"Last words: O little soul, wandering, joking, | host and companion of the body, | where will you go now, | pale, cold, naked, | deprived of the usual entertainment?"

"Every man is a synthesis of body and soul, destined to be a spirit, that is, to live in the house; but man prefers to stay in the cellar, that is, in the determination of sensuality."