“Sometimes I think we would lose ourselves altogether if it were not for our stubborn, irrepressible symptoms, calling us, requiring us, to recollect ourselves, to reorient ourselves to life.” SelfStubbornRecollect Author:Kat Duff
“By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.” WritingSleepGreekFacilitateOpiumPoppies Book:The Secret Life of Sleep Source: The Secret Life of Sleep
“Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.” PracticeSourceIllnessTraditionalRevelationsIsolationStillnessSeekersAbstinenceCocoonsReliable Sources Author:Kat Duff
“I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy.” LongFeltMagicEffectsMedicalPillsAlchemyResearchersVitaminsPlaceboPlacebo Effect Author:Kat Duff
“My body has taught me many things, all of them filled with soul: how to dance and make love, mourn and make music; now it is teaching me how to heal. I am learning to heed the shifting currents of my body-the subtle changes in temperature, muscle tension, thought and mood-the way a sailor rides the wind by reading the ripples on the water.” WaySoulBodyReadingWaterTeachingTaughtWindFilledCurrentsMoodHealTensionMusclesSubtleMaking LoveShiftingTemperatureMournSailorHeedRipple Author:Kat Duff
