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Herbert M. Shelton
Herbert M. Shelton

Herbert M. Shelton was a renowned author born on October 6, 1895, and passed away on January 1, 1985. His works primarily revolved around health and natural therapies, which had a profound impact on modern diet and lifestyle. more

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“A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons. The stench of chemicals offends the nose, while tranquillizers substitute for quietness.”

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“So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.”

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“An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it must be received; and we cannot have this gift except, perhaps, by supplication, by courting, by creating within ourselves that ‘begging bowl’ to which the gift is drawn.”

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Book:The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
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