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=How to Prepare the Body?=

When the body feels its miseries, its limitations, one must establish this dream in it—of a strength which would have no limit, a beauty which would have no ugliness, and of marvellous capacities: one dreams of being able to rise into the air, of being wherever it is necessary to be, of setting things right when they go wrong, of healing the sick.

The body carries within itself the sense of its divinity. There. This is what you must try to find again in yourself if you have lost it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/31-july-1957#p1-p17</ref>

To reach this ideal goal, one must strictly shun all excess and every vice, great or small; one must deny oneself the use of such slow poisons as tobacco, alcohol, etc., which men have a habit of developing into indispensable needs that gradually destroy the will and the memory. One’s entire physical activity should be organised to help the body to grow in balance and strength and beauty. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p12-p21</ref>

So, we must assume that animality in the human being should be replaced by another source of life, and this is quite conceivable—not only conceivable but partially realisable; and this is obviously the aim we ought to set before ourselves if we want to transform matter and make it capable of expressing divine qualities. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/17-april-1957#p1-p15</ref>