As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.
Interpretation
A healthy body supports a healthy mind and spirit.
This quote emphasizes the importance of physical well-being as a foundational element for inner peace and spiritual or mental development. Just as quality wine requires suitable conditions for its development, an individual's inner life thrives on the care and health of their physical existence.
In practice
During a wellness workshop, you might quote this to emphasize the connection between physical health and mental well-being.
Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.
The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a meaning separate from the rest-for example, the meeting of two people, which will become decisive for both-must bear in mind that each of the two brings with himself a texture of events, environments, other people, and that from the meeting, in turn, other stories will be derived which will break off from their common story.
Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual.
It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.
The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
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