When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.
One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.
Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.