Source: The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1951), Ch. V: Energy
“The way out from complication and doubt is to reduce the good to pleasure, something close to the body, or to utility, something useful to the body. … The body is considered as a factor all human beings have in common, hence an easy basis for generalization.”
How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science (2007)
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“If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.”

“The human body and the universe
grew from this, not this
from the universe and the human body.”
"This We Have Now" in Ch. 25 : Majesty. p. 262
The Essential Rumi (1995)
Context: This
that we are now
created the body, cell by cell,
like bees building a honeycomb. The human body and the universe
grew from this, not this
from the universe and the human body.

Quoted in: Dream It. List It. Do It!: How to Live a Bigger & Bolder Life, from the Life List Experts at 43Things.com http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_PBV0WJr9vsC&pg=PA98, Workman Publishing, 25 December 2008, p. 98
“My body separates me from all beings and all things. Only my body.”
Mi cuerpo me separa de todo ser y de toda cosa. Nada más que mi cuerpo.
Voces (1943)

Quoted in The Sage And the Housewife (2005) by Shanta Kelker, Ch. 3

Source: Ashtanga Yoga Primer, 1981, p.11

Source: No Way Out (2002), Ch. 4: You Invent Your Reality