This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"The mind is host, the body guest." - Japanese Proverbs
"Medical doctors strike me as ignorant as to how a healthy body works. They know how to control or repair some diseased bodies, but their medicine is often worse than the disease. And what about the pressure and competitiveness of the pharmaceutical industry and the make-profits-quick motives of the food corporations? Medical doctors put little or no emphasis on nutrition, exercise and energy balance. They are paid when we are sick, not when we are well." - Jerry Rubin
"Prayer without study is like a soul without a body." - Jewish Proverbs
"To be still searching what we know not by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal and proportional), this is a golden rule in theology as well as in arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a Church; not the forced and outward union of cold and neutral, and inwardly divided minds." - John Milton
"Our happiness, satisfaction, and our understanding, even of God, will be no deeper than our capacity to know ourselves inwardly, to encounter the outer world from the deep comfort that comes from being at home in one’s own skin, from an intimate familiarity with the ways of one’s own mind and body." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Voluntary simplicity keeps me mindful of what is important, of an ecology of mind and body and world in which everything is interconnected and every choice has far-reaching consequences. You don’t get to control it at all. But choosing simplicity whenever possible adds to life an element of deepest freedom which so easily eludes us, and many opportunities to discover that less may actually be more." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
"What is required to participate more fully in our own health and well-being is simply to listen more carefully and to trust what we hear, to trust the messages from our own life, from our own body and mind and feelings." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
"The body is a thing, the soul is also a thing; man is not a thing, but a drama - his life. Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance. And the first thing he has to do is decide what he is going to do." - José Ortega y Gasset
"A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us without." - Joseph Addison
"Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects the alchemist ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire of them. If it cannot remove the disquietudes arising from a man's mind, body or fortune, it makes him easy under them." - Joseph Addison
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed." - Joseph Addison
"All hormonal function, including that of the immune system and even allergic responses, occur as a sophisticated memory system handled primarily by our emotional brain. Because learning and memory are emotional-cognitive functions, the neural pattern, imprint, or “structure of knowledge” (to use Piaget’s term) of specific learning events includes in its content the memory patterns of those emotional hormones prominent in the body at the time of that learning." - Joseph Chilton Pearce, aka Joe
"When brain and heart frequencies entrain, they enter a synchronous, resonant, or coherent wave pattern. Though rare in adults, such entrainment is critical to full development of our human nature… The same entrainment of heart frequencies occurs between mother and infant during breast-feeding and other close body contact." - Joseph Chilton Pearce, aka Joe
"There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment." - Joseph Joubert
"Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter." - Joseph Joubert
"The soul has more diseases than the body." - Josh Billings, pen name for Henry Wheeler Shaw, aka Uncle Esek
"O Friend, hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live, understand whilst you live; for in life deliverance abides. If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death? It is but an empty dream that the soul shall have union with Him because it has passed form the body; if He is found now, He is found then; if not, we do not but go to dwell in the City of Death." - Kabir, also Kabīra NULL
"The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic just because the body is rotten - that is all fantasy. What is found now is found then." - Kabir, also Kabīra NULL
"Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit... Life, Freedom and Thought are three-in-one, and are everlasting and never pass away." - Kahlil Gibran
"Love joins our present with the past and the future... Love is a divine knowledge that enables men to see as much as the gods... Love is a blinding mist that keeps the soul from discerning the secret of existence, so that the heart sees only trembling phantoms of desire among the hills, and hears only echoes of cries from voiceless valleys... Love is the rest of the body in the quiet of the grave, the tranquillity of the soul in the depth of Eternity... And so, all who passed spoke of Love as the image of their hopes and frustrations, leaving it a mystery as before." - Kahlil Gibran
"O soul! life is a darkness which ends as in the sunburst of day. The yearning of my heart tells me there is peace in the grave. O soul! if some fool tell you the soul perishes like the body and that which dies never returns, tell him the flower perishes but the seed remains and lies before us as the secret of life everlasting." - Kahlil Gibran
"The filth of a body cannot reach a pure soul." - Kahlil Gibran
"The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body." - Kahlil Gibran
"Your body is the harp of your soul." - Kahlil Gibran
"He who endeavours to cleave the body from the spirit, or the spirit from the body is directing his heart away from truth." - Kahlil Gibran
"The soul is an embryo in the body of man, and the day of death is the day of awakening, for it is the great era of labour and the rich hour of creation... Death is an ending to the son of the earth, but to the soul it is the start, the triumph of life... Death removes but the touch, and not the awareness of all good. And he who has lived one spring or more possesses the spiritual life of one who has lived a score of springs." - Kahlil Gibran
"If find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when the one suffers, the other sympathizes." - Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
"You cannot eradicate disease from the human body unless you eradicate it from the body politic." - Louis D. Brandeis, fully Louis Dembitz Brandeis
"Those who desire to be men in truth, not brutes in the appearance of men, must constantly endeavor to reduce the wants of the body." - Maimonides, given name Moses ben Maimon or Moshe ben Maimon, known as "Rambam" NULL
"When the perfect man is... near death, his knowledge increases mightily... and his love for the object of his knowledge becomes more intense, and it is in this great delight that his soul separates from his body." - Maimonides, given name Moses ben Maimon or Moshe ben Maimon, known as "Rambam" NULL
"Happiness is salutary for the body, but it is sorrow that develops spiritual strength." - Marcel Proust, fully Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind." - Marcel Proust, fully Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
"A room without books is a body without a soul." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule, may be old in body, but can never be so in mind." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
"Cultivation to the mind, is as necessary as food to the body." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
"Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
"Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. We must make a stand against old age. We must atone for its faults by activity. We must exercise the mind as we exercise the body, to keep it supple and buoyant. Life may be short, but it is long enough to live honorably and well. Old age is the consummation of life, rich in blessings." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
"The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
"The fact is that old age is respectable just as long as it asserts itself, maintains its proper rights, and is not enslaved to any one. For as I admire a young man who has something of the old man in him, so do I an old one who has something of a young man. The man who aims at this may possibly become old in body - in mind he never will." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
"The great affairs of life are not performed by physical strength, or activity, or nimbleness of body, but by deliberation, character, expression of opinion. Of these old age is not only not deprived, but, as a rule, has them in a greater degree." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
"What we need is soul, in the middle, holding together mind and body, ideas and life, spirituality and the world." - Marsilio Ficino
"The body never lies." - Martha Graham
"The soul must not boast that it is more holy than the body, for only in that it has climbed down into the body and works through its limbs can the soul attain to its perfection. The body on the other hand, may not brag of supporting the soul, for when the soul leaves, the flesh falls into decay." - Martin Buber
"Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed, so is the body." - Martin Luther
"The Masters say that the soul has two faces. The higher one always sees God, the lower one looks downward and informs the senses. The higher one is the summit of the soul, it gazes into eternity. It knows nothing about time and body." - Meister Eckhart, formally Meister von Hochheim
"The teacher is like the farmer or the physician. The farmer doesn’t produce the grains of the field; he merely helps them grow. The physician does not produce the health of the body; he merely helps the body maintain its health or regain its health. And the teacher does not produce knowledge in the mind; he merely helps the mind discover it for itself." - Mortimer J. Adler, fully Mortimer Jerome Adler
"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline." - Mortimer J. Adler, fully Mortimer Jerome Adler