Body Quote by Horace

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed…

— Horace

“Breathing has the dual nature of being both voluntary and autonomic, which is why the breath illuminates the eternal inquiry about what we can…

— Leslie Kaminoff

“[When the negative mind is neutralized through meditation], the body is set free to do what nature designed it to do: repair itself.”

— José Silva

“In meditation, placing our attention on the breathing takes the mind from daydreaming, worrying, thinking, and fantasizing. It gives our mind something healthy to…

— Sakyong Mipham

“The higher we went the more our spirits seemed to become purged and exalted. Once again I felt the influence on the soul of…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“The mind does not stay all the time with the feeling of breath. It goes to sounds, memories, emotions, perceptions, consciousness, and mental formations…

— Henepola Gunaratana

“In one breath, I release all negative feelings and fearful thoughts, then fill up my lungs with wonder and awe and pure, unadulterated joy.”

— Sara Baysinger

“The later-afternoon air of our exhalations hung in brief clouds before us. The thought balloon of my own breath said, "How have I found…

— Lorrie Moore

“Now when the soul by its efforts to abandon outward objects and gather itself inwards, is brought into the influence of the central tendency,…

— Madame Guyon

“Man's mental power, happiness, self-control, clear-sightedness, morals, and even his spiritual growth may be increased by an understanding of the "Science of Breath.”

— Yogi Ramacharaka

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

— Horace

When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.

— Marguerite Duras