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"I'm so mean I make medicine sick!"
"All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief."
"The best doctors give the least medicines"
"Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively."
"Your body has natural healing capacities that nobody in the field of medicine can pretend ultimately to understand."
"It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching."
"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."
"A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine."
"Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence."
"An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind."
"I sing the body electric."
"No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries."
"A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part."
"Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself."
"Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses."
"Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine."
"Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind."
"I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous."
"pain is inevitable,suffering is optional... we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health."