“You can achieve better health by replacing passive “fix me” behaviors with self-reliant ones—new habits that keep you actively involved in your own
care.”
Source: Healthcare Choices: 5 Steps to Getting the Medical Care You Want and Need
“The consequence of the demand for fast answers to complicated health matters is the endless demand for tests, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals.”
Source: Healthcare Choices: 5 Steps to Getting the Medical Care You Want and Need
“When it comes to our most precious commodity, our own health, many of us are like sheep following whatever our doctors and insurance companies and other medical care providers tell us to do and not to do.
about our health.”
“Healing is essential for lasting change. ...healing is a transformation, not just a quick fix; a change from an inhibited or impaired state to one of greater health, integration and connection. What was damaged must be soothed, repaired, restored, and given new pathways in which to grow and flourish. In order for change to be thorough, old patterns need to be dissolved, and new, more coherent and refined constructs, formed. In creating coherency in new forms, what has become fragmented or separated, injured or diseased must be made whole again, or perhaps made whole for the first time.”
Source: ChangeAbility: How artists activists and awakeners navigate change
“Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.”
Source: All for Love
“I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world. summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.
I believe that health is wholeness. For many years I have returned again and again to the work of the English agriculturist SirAlbert Hovvard, who said, in The Soil and Health, that "the whole problem of health in soil, plant, animal, and man [is] one great subject."
I am moreover a Luddite, in what I take to be the true and appropriate sense. I am not "against technology" so much as I am for community. When the choice is between the health of a community and technological innovation, I choose the health of the community I would unhesitatingly destroy a machine before I would allow the machine to destroy my community.
I believe that the community-in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures-is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms.”
Source: Another Turn of the Crank: Essays
“Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.”
Source: ChangeAbility: How artists activists and awakeners navigate change
“Take a close look at nature and you’ll see that every living creature is wired for mutation and variation. The fact that people can say, “I’m not the same person I used to be,” is the greatest of all miracles.”
Source: The Great Brain Cleanse
“I never thought before how strange the notion of a transplant list is. The only list I've ever really given thought to were grocery lists and to-do lists, lists of homework assignments and list of clothes I wanted to buy before school started. I never thought there was such a thing as a list of names, people waiting for new faces. People waiting for someone else to die.”
Source: Faceless
“Your weight is merely a symptom of your diet and lifestyle.”
Source: Guide to Conquering Your Yeasty Beasties: Overcoming Candidiasis