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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.
Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.
A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
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.
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
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