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Health Advisory Level ::: A non-regulatory health-based reference level of chemical traces (usually in ppm) in drinking water at which there are no adverse health risks when ingested over various periods of time. Such levels are established for one day, 10 days, long term and life-time exposure periods. They contain a large margin of safety.
Health and Safety Study ::: Any study of any effect of a chemical substance or mixture on health or the environment or on both, including underlying data and epidemiological studies, studies of occupational exposure to a chemical substance or mixture, toxicological, clinical, and ecological studies of a chemical substance or mixture, and any test performed pursuant to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Health Assessment ::: An evaluation of available data on existing or potential risks to human health posed by a Superfund site. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is required to perform such an assessment at every site on the National Priorities List.
Health Effect ::: A deviation in the normal function of the human body.
Health Effect Assessment ::: The component of risk assessment which determines the probability of a health effect given a particular level or range of exposure to a hazard.
Health Hazard (types of) :::
Health Physics ::: The science concerned with the recognition, evaluation, and control of health hazards which may arise from the use and application of ionizing radiation.
Health Psychology ::: The specific field in psychology concerned with psychology’s impact on health, physical well being, and illness.
health behaviours: activities that maintain or improve health.
healthful ::: a. --> Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.
Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet.
Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition.
Well-disposed; favorable.
healthfully ::: adv. --> In health; wholesomely.
healthfulness ::: n. --> The state of being healthful.
healthily ::: adv. --> In a healthy manner.
healthiness ::: n. --> The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.
healthlessness ::: n. --> The state of being health/ess.
healthless ::: n. --> Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm.
Not conducive to health; unwholesome.
health ::: n. --> The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain.
A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast.
health promotion: refers to strategies and tactics that help enable people to gain control of, and therefore enhance, their health through changes in lifestyle and preventative practices, significantly reduce the risk of illness.
health psychology: area of psychology that aims to understand why people become ill, how they stay healthy and how they respond and cope with illness.
healthsome ::: a. --> Wholesome; salubrious.
healthward ::: a. & adv. --> In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency.
healthy ::: superl. --> Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.
Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion.
Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.
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1. Any material that poses a threat to human health and- /or the environment. Typical hazardous substances are toxic, corrosive, ignitable, explosive, or chemically reactive.
1. Perfect physical health;
6. Health; 7. Immortality.
Abracadabra: A magic word. A triangular arrangement of its letters worn on an amulet is believed by occultists to bring health and ward off disease.
ACGIH ::: American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists; an organization of professional personnel in governmental agencies or educational institutions engaged in occupational safety and health programs. ACGIH develops and publishes recommended occupational exposure limits (see TLV) for hundreds of chemical substances and physical agents.
"Action is a resultant of the energy of the being, but this energy is not of one sole kind; the Consciousness-Force of the Spirit manifests itself in many kinds of energies: there are inner activities of mind, activities of life, of desire, passion, impulse, character, activities of the senses and the body, a pursuit of truth and knowledge, a pursuit of beauty, a pursuit of ethical good or evil, a pursuit of power, love, joy, happiness, fortune, success, pleasure, life-satisfactions of all kinds, life-enlargement, a pursuit of individual or collective objects, a pursuit of the health, strength, capacity, satisfaction of the body.” The Life Divine*
“Action is a resultant of the energy of the being, but this energy is not of one sole kind; the Consciousness-Force of the Spirit manifests itself in many kinds of energies: there are inner activities of mind, activities of life, of desire, passion, impulse, character, activities of the senses and the body, a pursuit of truth and knowledge, a pursuit of beauty, a pursuit of ethical good or evil, a pursuit of power, love, joy, happiness, fortune, success, pleasure, life-satisfactions of all kinds, life-enlargement, a pursuit of individual or collective objects, a pursuit of the health, strength, capacity, satisfaction of the body.” The Life Divine
A hieroglyphic text found on stelae and other objects in the Serapeum at Sakkara states that Apis is called “the life of Osiris, the lord of heaven, Tem (with) his horns (in) his head,” he who gives “life, strength, health, to thy nostrils for ever.” Thus Serapis is represented in the form of a man with the head of a bull; the horns being crescent-shaped, encircling the solar disk; in his hands he bears the scepter with the flail and crook of Osiris.
airing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Air ::: n. --> A walk or a ride in the open air; a short excursion for health&
Air Pollution ::: The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of any dust, fumes, mist, smoke, other particulate matter, vapor, gas, odorous substances, or a combination thereof, in sufficient quantities and of such characteristics and duration as to be, or likely to be, injurious to health or welfare, animal or plant life, or property, or as to interfere with the enjoyment of life or property.
Air Quality Criteria ::: The levels of pollution and lengths of exposure above which adverse effects may occur on health and welfare.
ALARA ::: Acronym for "As Low As Reasonably Achievable," means making every reasonable effort to maintain exposures to ionizing radiation as far below the dose limits as practical, consistent with the purpose for which the licensed activity is undertaken, taking into account the state of technology, the economics of improvements in relation to state of technology, the economics of improvements in relation to benefits to the public health and safety, and other societal and socioeconomic considerations, and in relation to utilization of nuclear energy and licensed materials in the public interest. (see 10 CFR 20.1003).
"All disease is a means towards some new joy of health, all evil & pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss & good, all death an opening on widest immortality. Why and how this should be so, is God"s secret which only the soul purified of egoism can penetrate.” Essays Divine and Human
“All disease is a means towards some new joy of health, all evil & pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss & good, all death an opening on widest immortality. Why and how this should be so, is God’s secret which only the soul purified of egoism can penetrate.” Essays Divine and Human
all hail ::: interj. --> All health; -- a phrase of salutation or welcome.
alterative ::: a. --> Causing ateration.
Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. ::: n. --> A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
Amesha Spenta: One of the six immortal holy ones, high deities of Zoroastrianism, attendants of Ahura Mazda. They represent the personified attributes of Ahura Mazda: Ameretat (immortality), Aramaiti (holy harmony), Asha (righteousness), Haurvatat (saving health), Kshathra (rulership), and Vohumanah (good thought). They are known also as the Amshaspands.
Analogy of attribution: Is had when the principle of unity is found in a common concept to which the inferiors are related either by cause or effect. Moreover this common concept must refer principally and per se to a prime reality to which the inferiors are analogous. Thus food, medicine and pulse are said to be healthy. In this case the common concept is health which applies principally and per se to the animal; however, food, medicine and pulse are related to it through the various forms of cause and effect.
anaplasty ::: n. --> The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.
an.a ::: "the life-energy as it acts in the body", same as sthūla pran.a; the pran.a "directly involved in the body", where "it produces those reactions of hunger, thirst, fatigue, health, disease, physical vigour, etc. which are the vital experiences of the physical frame".
An :::economic_indicator ::: is a piece of economic data, usually of macroeconomic scale, that is used by analysts to interpret current or future investment possibilities or to judge the overall health of an economy. Economic indicators can be anything the investor chooses, but specific pieces of data released by government and non-profit organizations have become widely followed. Such indicators include but aren't limited to: the consumer price index (CPI), gross domestic product (GDP), unemployment figures and the price of crude oil.
Angel of Health—Mumiah; also Raphael.
Anukis [Greek from Egyptian Ȧnqet from ȧnq to surround, embrace] Third of the triad of deities of Elephantine, consisting of Khnemu, Sati, and Anqet or Anukis. Her worship was common in northern Nubia, but later centered at Sahal, where her principal temple was situated. At Philae she was identified with Nephthys or Neith, it being common to regard Khnemu as a form of Osiris: hence Sati and Anqet became associated with Isis and Nephthys. However, Anqet is also represented with the disk and horned headdress of Isis and is called the lady of heaven, mistress of all the gods; giver of life and of all power, and of all health and joy of heart. The goddess is also associated with the embracing waters of the Nile, though the root itself shows that she is the embracing and all-surrounding cosmic life as well as it minor functions in manifestation. The ascriptions given to Anukis as the giver of life and of all power associate the goddess with the moon, whether in the cosmogonical or lower generative sense.
Any practice of pranayama can be fraught with serious danger, not merely to physical health, but in extreme cases to mental balance or stability. Pranayama, when actually practiced according to the exoteric rules, is a very different thing from the excellent and common sense advice given by doctors to breathe deeply, and to fill the lungs with fresh air. Pranayama should never be practiced by anyone unless under the guidance of initiated teachers, and these never proclaim themselves as teachers of pranayama, for the adepts use it only in rarest cases for certain pupils who for karmic reasons can be helped in this unusual and extraordinary way.
arogya (arogya; arogyam) ::: health; freedom from disease (roga) in all its forms, part of physical perfection (sarirasiddhi); the first member of the sarira catus.t.aya, "the state of being healthy", whose first stage is when "the system is normally healthy and only gets disturbed by exceptional causes", its second stage when "even exceptional causes or great overstrain cannot disturb the system", while its culmination would be immortality (amr.ta) in the body; same as arogyasakti.
arogyam ::: [diseaselessness, health].
arogyaprakr.ti (arogyaprakriti) ::: healthy nature. arogyaprakrti arogya sadhana arogya
arogyasakti (arogyashakti; arogya-shakti; arogya shakti) ::: the force arogyasakti of health maintaining arogya and repelling tendencies or attacks of roga.
arogyasarira (arogyasharira) ::: healthy body. arogyasarira
arogyasiddhi (arogyasiddhi; arogya-siddhi; arogya siddhi) ::: the perarogyasiddhi fection of health (arogya); the movement towards this perfection or the power working to bring it about.
arogya tapas (arogya tapas; arogya-tapas) ::: will-power (tapas) acting arogya on the body to maintain or restore health.
As Low As Reasonably Practicable "legal" (ALARP) A term from {UK health and safety (http://hse.gov.uk/risk/theory/alarpglance.htm)} law that mandates reducting the risk to workers to the point where the cost of further reduction is grossly disproportionate to the benefit. (2010-10-05)
auscultation ::: n. --> The act of listening or hearkening to.
An examination by listening either directly with the ear (immediate auscultation) applied to parts of the body, as the abdomen; or with the stethoscope (mediate auscultation), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease.
AUTOmated GRouPing system "tool, mathematics" (AUTOGRP) An interactive statistical analysis system, an extension of {CML}. ["AUTOGRP: An Interactive Computer System for the Analysis of Health Care Data", R.E. Mills et al, Medical Care 14(7), Jul 1976]. (1994-11-07)
AUTOmated GRouPing system ::: (tool, mathematics) (AUTOGRP) An interactive statistical analysis system, an extension of CML.[AUTOGRP: An Interactive Computer System for the Analysis of Health Care Data, R.E. Mills et al, Medical Care 14(7), Jul 1976]. (1994-11-07)
autoplasty ::: n. --> The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.
AUTO-SUGGESTIONS. ::: Auto-suggestions- it is really faith in a mental form - act both on the subliminal and the subconscient. In the subliminal they set in action the powers of the inner being, its occult power to make thought, will or simple conscious force effective on the body - in the subconscient they silence or block the suggestions of death and illness (expressed or unexpressed) that prevent the return of health. They help also to combat the same things (adverse suggestions) in the mind, vital, body consciousness. Where all this is completely done or with some completeness, the effects can be very remarkable.
Ayur Veda (Sanskrit) Āyurveda [from āyus life, health, vital power + veda knowledge] One of the minor Vedas, generally considered a supplement to the Atharva-Veda, one of the four principal Vedas. It treats of the science of health and medicine, and is divided into eight departments: 1) salya, surgery; 2) salakya, the science and cure of diseases of the head and its organs; 3) kaya-chikitsa, the cure of diseases affecting the whole body, or general medical treatment; 4) bhuta-vidya, the treatment of mental — and consequent physical — diseases supposed to be produced by bhutas (demons); 5) kaumara-bhritya, the medical treatment of children; 6) agada-tantra, the doctrine of antidotes; 7) rasayana-tantra, the doctrine of elixirs; and 8) vajikarana-tantra, the doctrine of aphrodisiacs. Medicine was regarded as one of the sacred sciences by all ancient peoples and in archaic ages was one of the knowledges or sciences belonging to the priesthood; and this list of subjects shows that the field covered by its practitioners was extensive. Its authorship is attributed by some to Dhanvantari, sometimes called the physician of the gods, who was produced by the mystical churning of the ocean and appeared holding a cup of amrita (immortality) in his hands.
Bacteria, then, are a host of visible and invisible agents which, on our plane, subconsciously carry out many processes of evolutionary life and death. They are links in the karmic chain by which the divine recorders, who follow the immutable laws in the universal mind, return to each being the results of whatever it was the antecedent cause. Thus the bacteria of a disease will multiply and produce their injurious toxins only when the karmic conditions within or surrounding the individual provide a suitable culture-medium for them. Even then, the toxemia may or may not be modified or overcome by the natural antitoxins of the blood aided by competent medical treatment. The typical disease germs found inactive in healthy throats, etc., are instances of a karma which, paradoxically, provides a dangerous contact with individual protection. The healthy person may be an unconscious carrier of the disease germ to someone who is due to reap the full effects of causes he had set in motion at some time.
bath ::: n. --> The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.
Water or other liquid for bathing.
A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.
A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments
Betrayal of the Mysteries Ancient writers affirm that the prime requisite of every candidate seeking entrance into the Mysteries was a pledge of utter secrecy. Persons guilty of the betrayal of the Mysteries were rigidly excluded from participation in the celebration of the rites. Likewise those were debarred who accidentally were guilty of homicide or any major crime, or who had been proved guilty of sorcery. If merely unfortunate mediums, they were taken care of in hospitals maintained for that purpose in the neighborhood of temples, and if possible restored to health; if consciously traitorous or wicked, they were dealt with in other ways. Thus it is clear that even in the degenerate days dating from before Plato’s time in the countries surrounding the Mediterranean, abuse of occult power was considered one of the most heinous of human offenses, for it struck directly at the roots of society, and it was for this last reason that betrayal of the Mysteries, sorcery, or similar offense was punished by the State itself.
better ::: a. --> Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect.
Greater in amount; larger; more.
Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.
More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance;
Health Advisory Level ::: A non-regulatory health-based reference level of chemical traces (usually in ppm) in drinking water at which there are no adverse health risks when ingested over various periods of time. Such levels are established for one day, 10 days, long term and life-time exposure periods. They contain a large margin of safety.
Health and Safety Study ::: Any study of any effect of a chemical substance or mixture on health or the environment or on both, including underlying data and epidemiological studies, studies of occupational exposure to a chemical substance or mixture, toxicological, clinical, and ecological studies of a chemical substance or mixture, and any test performed pursuant to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Health Assessment ::: An evaluation of available data on existing or potential risks to human health posed by a Superfund site. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is required to perform such an assessment at every site on the National Priorities List.
Health Effect ::: A deviation in the normal function of the human body.
Health Effect Assessment ::: The component of risk assessment which determines the probability of a health effect given a particular level or range of exposure to a hazard.
Health Hazard (types of) :::
Health Physics ::: The science concerned with the recognition, evaluation, and control of health hazards which may arise from the use and application of ionizing radiation.
Health Psychology ::: The specific field in psychology concerned with psychology’s impact on health, physical well being, and illness.
Bioaccumulation ::: The process whereby certain toxic substances collect in living tissues, thus posing a substantial hazard to human health or the environment.
BioMeDical Package "language, library, statistics" (BMDP) A statistical language and library of over forty statistical routines developed in 1961 at {UCLA}, Health Sciences Computing Facility under Dr. Wilford Dixon. BMDP was first implemented in {Fortran} for the {IBM 7090}. Tapes of the original source were distributed for free all over the world. BMDP is the second iteration of the original {BIMED} programs. It was developed at {UCLA} Health Sciences Computing facility, with NIH funding. The "P" in BMDP originally stood for "parameter" but was later changed to "package". BMDP used keyword parameters to defined what was to be done rather than the fixed card format used by original BIMED programs. BMDP supports many statistical funtions: simple data description, {survival analysis}, {ANOVA}, {multivariate analyses}, {regression analysis}, and {time series} analysis. BMDP Professional combines the full suite of BMDP Classic (Dynamic) release 7.0 with the BMDP New System 2.0 {Windows} front-end. {BMDP from Statistical Solutions (http://statsol.ie/bmdp/bmdp.htm)}. (2004-01-14)
BioMeDical Package ::: (language, library, statistics) (BMDP) A statistical language and library of over forty statistical routines developed in 1961 at UCLA, Health Sciences Fortran for the IBM 7090. Tapes of the original source were distributed for free all over the world.BMDP is the second iteration of the original BIMED programs. It was developed at UCLA Health Sciences Computing facility, with NIH funding. The P in BMDP keyword parameters to defined what was to be done rather than the fixed card format used by original BIMED programs.BMDP supports many statistical funtions: simple data description, survival analysis, ANOVA, multivariate analyses, regression analysis, and time series analysis.BMDP Professional combines the full suite of BMDP Classic (Dynamic) release 7.0 with the BMDP New System 2.0 Windows front-end. .(2004-01-14)
Blood Transfusion The introducing of blood from the vascular system of one animal or person into the blood vessels of another. Selecting a person for a donor whose blood matches that of the recipient takes no account of the subtle personal and karmic qualities, both active and latent, which are carried over from the donor’s lifestream. The protean influence of personalized blood, thus directly transmitted, is conveyed to the other person with greater potency than would result even from drinking it. No laboratory findings of supposedly healthy blood can ever reveal the latent seeds of karmic disease, or of mental or psychological disorder, which will manifest in due time unless destroyed, even when transplanted into a different vital culture-medium. Moreover, transfusion may result in an increased or abnormal activity of such germinating seeds which thus have been involved with the physical conditions and the life issues of another person. W. Q. Judge, speaking of the esoteric teaching on the influence of the body’s tissues on the soul, says:
bloom ::: n. **1. The flower of a plant. 2. Fig. A condition or time of vigour, freshness, and beauty; prime. 3. Fig. Glowing charm; delicate beauty. blooms. v. 4. To bear flowers; to blossom. Also fig. 5. To be in a healthy, glowing, or flourishing condition. 6. To flourish or grow. 7. To cause to flourish or grow; to flourish. Chiefly fig. blooms, bloomed.**
bouncing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Bounce ::: a. --> Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
Excessive; big.
bulletin ::: n. --> A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.
Any public notice or announcement, especially of news recently received.
A periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society.
bumper ::: n. --> A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast.
A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer.
That which bumps or causes a bump.
Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.
buxom ::: a. --> Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.
Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.
cachexy ::: n. --> A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).
cacophony ::: n. --> An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables.
A combination of discordant sounds.
An unhealthy state of the voice.
calisthenics ::: n. --> The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics.
catoptromancy ::: n. --> A species of divination, which was performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.
CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Restoration and Compensation Liability Act)::: Cleanup Program focuses on human health and environmental concerns related to human health. The cleanup program is primarily carried out by EPA, working with States, on sites designated for cleanup on the NPL. Cleanup Program emphasizes local source control, prevention of further spread from sources. Cleanup Program is prohibited from "restoring" natural resources, although cleanup may prevent further injuries to natural resources.
cheiloplasty ::: n. --> The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.
Chronic Toxicity ::: The capacity of a substance to cause long-term poisonous human health effects.
collapse ::: 1. To fall or cave in; crumble suddenly. 2. Fig. To break down suddenly in strength or health and thereby cease to function. collapsed, collapsing.
color ::: n. --> A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.
Any hue distinguished from white or black.
The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.
That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.
Color therapy: The practical application, for therapeutic purposes, of the teaching that color affects emotions, health, mental states and conduct in general. (See: color awareness.)
conditioned ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Condition ::: a. --> Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man.
Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not absolute.
condition ::: n. --> Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.
Essential quality; property; attribute.
Temperament; disposition; character.
That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms
confirm ::: v. t. --> To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.
Contingency Plan ::: A document setting out an organized, planned, and coordinated course of action to be followed in case of a fire, explosion, or other accident that releases toxic chemicals, hazardous waste, or radioactive materials that threaten human health or the environment.
convalescency ::: n. --> The recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health.
convalescent ::: a. --> Recovering from sickness or debility; partially restored to health or strength.
Of or pertaining to convalescence. ::: n. --> One recovering from sickness.
convalesce ::: v. i. --> To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.
Cornell Theory Center ::: (CTC) One of four supercomputing centers funded by the US National Science Foundation. The CTC also receives funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Institutes of Health, New York State, IBM Corporation, and other members of the center's Corporate Research Institute. . (1994-12-08)
Cornell Theory Center (CTC) One of four supercomputing centers funded by the US {National Science Foundation}. The CTC also receives funding from the {Advanced Research Projects Agency}, the National Institutes of Health, New York State, {IBM} Corporation, and other members of the center's Corporate Research Institute. {(http://tc.cornell.edu/)}. (1994-12-08)
crankness ::: n. --> Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.
Sprightliness; vigor; health.
crawling horror "jargon" Ancient {crufty} hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like {dusty deck} or {gonkulator}, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare {WOMBAT}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-01)
Creen is the vital energy of work and action. Green light is a vital force, a dynamic force of the emotional vital which has the force to purify, harmonise or cure. Active energy of the divine Truth for work. It can signify various things according to the context ::: in the emotional vital. It is the colour of a cer- tain form of emotional generosity; in the vital proper, an activity with vital abundance or vital generosity behind it ; in the vital physical, it signifies a force of health.
Criteria Pollutants ::: The 1970 amendments to the Clean Air Act required EPA to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards for certain pollutants known to be hazardous to human health. EPA has identified and set standards to protect human health and welfare for six pollutants: ozone, carbon monoxide, total suspended particulates, sulfur dioxide, lead, and nitrogen oxide. The term, "criteria pollutants" derives from the requirement that EPA must describe the characteristics and potential health and welfare effects of these pollutants. It is on the basis of these criteria that standards are set or revised.
Critical Period ::: A time frame deemed highly important in developing in a healthy manner; can be physically, emotionally, behaviorally, or cognitively.
Data_science ::: is a field of Big Data geared toward providing meaningful information based on large amounts of complex data. Data science, or data-driven science, combines different fields of work in statistics and computation in order to interpret data for the purpose of decision making. BREAKING DOWN 'Data Science' Data is drawn from different sectors and platforms including cell phones, social media, e-commerce sites, healthcare surveys, internet searches, etc. The increase in the amount of data available opened the door to a new field of study called Big Data — or the extremely large data sets that can help produce better operational tools in all sectors. The continually increasing sets of and easy access to data are made possible by a collaboration of companies known as fintech, which use technology to innovate and enhance traditional financial products and services. The data produced creates even more data which is easily shared across entities thanks to emergent fintech products like cloud computing and storage. However, the interpretation of vast amounts of unstructured data for effective decision making may prove too complex and time consuming for companies, hence the emergence of data science.
decayed ::: broke down into component parts; gradually deteriorated to an inferior state: declined in health, etc.
Decay Products ::: Degraded radioactive materials, often referred to as "daughters" or "progeny", radon decay products of most concern from a public health standpoint are polonium-214 and polonium-218.
demography ::: n. --> The study of races, as to births, marriages, mortality, health, etc.
destructive ::: a. --> Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth. ::: n.
Deterministic Effect::: The health effects, the severity of which varies with the dose and for which a threshold is believed to exist. Radiation-induced cataract formation is an example of a deterministic effect (also called a non-stochastic effect)
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Dhrystone ::: (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker , intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C.The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health.Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented. . .(2002-03-26)
Dhrystone "benchmark" A short {synthetic benchmark} program by Reinhold Weicker "weicker.muc@sni.de", "weicker.muc@sni-usa.com", intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in {ADA}, {Pascal} and {C}. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the {cache} is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented. {Sources (ftp://ftp.nosc.mil/pub/aburto/)}. {Results (http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/dhrystone.data.col0.html)}. (2002-03-26)
Dictynra, Dictynna (Greek) [from diktyon net] A sea goddess worshipped in Crete, an aspect of Britomartis (sweet maid), a goddess worshiped throughout the Mediterranean islands and coast, often identified with Artemis. Britomartis dispensed happiness and was a patroness of hunters, fishermen, and sailors, a goddess of health and birth. Dictynna, a daughter of Zeus and Artemis, seems to have originally been a moon goddess. She is said to “wear a wreath made of the magic plant diktamnon, or dictamnus, the evergreen shrub whose contact is said, at the same time, to develop somnambulism and cure it finally . . .” (IU 1:264).
diet ::: n. --> Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.
different ::: a. --> Distinct; separate; not the same; other.
Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different shapes; different degrees of excellence.
Disease Broadly stated, disease is a disordered or inharmonious vital state of the organism, with more of less excess, defect, or perversion of functional activity. The condition may be some chemical or mechanical wrong which renders the body unable to respond naturally to the psychoelectric and other forces which play through and sustain the physical person. Moreover, the material and immaterial elements of the human constitution react upon each other for health or disease, because the mind and emotions on the one hand, and the organs and their functions on the other, are interrelated parts of the same entity. As a rule, this interplay between the material and the conscious person becomes a vicious circle in disease. Mental or emotional shock or strain can so affect function as to result in organic disease. Long continued selfish emotions cause a distorted and inharmonious interaction of the pranic or vital currents of the body, resulting in one or another disorder, according to the type of the emotions and the individual karma.
dissipated ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Dissipate ::: a. --> Squandered; scattered.
Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate.
dissipation ::: n. --> The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
Dose-response Assessment ::: The process of characterizing the relation between the dose of an agent administered or received and the incidence of an adverse health effect in exposed populations and estimating the incidence of the effect as a function of human exposure to the agent.
dumpster diving ::: /dump'-ster di:'-ving/ 1. The practice of sifting refuse from an office or technical installation to extract confidential data, especially damaged copies of AT&T internal manuals taught them much. The technique is still rumored to be a favourite of crackers operating against careless targets.2. The practice of raiding the dumpsters behind buildings where producers and/or consumers of high-tech equipment are located, with the expectation (usually to health in some hacker's den. Experienced dumpster-divers not infrequently accumulate basements full of moldering (but still potentially useful) cruft.[Jargon File]
dumpster diving /dump'-ster di:'-ving/ 1. The practice of sifting refuse from an office or technical installation to extract confidential data, especially security-compromising information ("dumpster" is an Americanism for what is elsewhere called a "skip"). Back in AT&T's monopoly days, before paper shredders became common office equipment, phone phreaks (see {phreaking}) used to organise regular dumpster runs against phone company plants and offices. Discarded and damaged copies of AT&T internal manuals taught them much. The technique is still rumored to be a favourite of crackers operating against careless targets. 2. The practice of raiding the dumpsters behind buildings where producers and/or consumers of high-tech equipment are located, with the expectation (usually justified) of finding discarded but still-valuable equipment to be nursed back to health in some hacker's den. Experienced dumpster-divers not infrequently accumulate basements full of moldering (but still potentially useful) {cruft}. [{Jargon File}]
Elementaries ::: "Properly, the disembodied souls of the depraved; these souls having at some time prior to deathseparated from themselves their divine spirits, and so lost their chance for immortality" (TheosophicalGlossary, H. P. Blavatsky).Strictly speaking, the word "elementaries" should be used as H. P. Blavatsky defines it in this quotationfrom her. But in modern theosophical literature the word has come to signify more particularly thephantoms or eidola of disembodied persons, these phantoms or eidola really being the kama-rupicshades, with especial application to the cases of grossly materialistic ex-humans whose evil impulses andappetites still inhering in the kama-rupic phantom draw these phantoms to physical spheres congenial tothem. They are a real danger to psychical health and sanity, and literally haunt living human beingspossessing tendencies akin to their own. They are soulless shells, but still filled with energies of adepraved and ignoble type. Their destiny of course is like that of all other pretas or bhutas -- ultimatedisintegration; for the gross astral atoms composing them slowly dissolve through the years after themanner of a dissolving column of smoke or a wisp of dark cloud on a mountainside.
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) ::: The awareness of and ability to manage one&
Endangerment Assessment::: A study to determine the nature and extent of contamination at a site on the National Priorities List and the risks posed to public health or the environment. EPA or the state conducts the study when a legal action is to be taken to direct potentially responsible parties to clean up a site or pay for it. An endangerment assessment supplements a remedial investigation.
End, (in Scholasticism): That object for the attainment of which the agent moves and acts. End which (finis qui): That good the agent intends to attain, e.g. health, which a sick man intends. End for whom (finis cui): Refers to the person or subject for whom the end which (finis qui) is procured, e.g. the sick man himself for whom health is procured.
ergonomics ::: The study of the design and arrangement of equipment so that people will interact with the equipment in healthy, comfortable, and efficient manner. As physical design of the keyboard, screens, and related hardware, and the manner in which people interact with these hardware devices. (1995-04-14)
ergonomics The study of the design and arrangement of equipment so that people will interact with the equipment in healthy, comfortable, and efficient manner. As related to computer equipment, ergonomics is concerned with such factors as the physical design of the keyboard, screens, and related hardware, and the manner in which people interact with these hardware devices. (1995-04-14)
eschar ::: n. --> A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.
In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams.
eucrasy ::: --> Such a due mixture of qualities in bodies as constitutes health or soundness.
euplastic ::: a. --> Having the capacity of becoming organizable in a high degree, as the matter forming the false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy person. ::: n. --> Organizable substance by which the tissues of an animal body are renewed.
eutrophy ::: n. --> Healthy nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions.
Evolutionary ethics: Any ethical theory in which the doctrine of evolution plays a leading role, as explaining the origin of the moral sense, and, more especially, as contributing importantly to the determination of the moral standard, e.g. the ethics of Charles Darwin, H. Spencer, L. Stephen. Typical moral standards set up by evolutionists are adaptation, conduciveness to life, social health. Cf. H. Spencer, The Data of Ethics. -- W.K.F.
exercise ::: n. --> The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice.
Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.
Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise
Exposure Concentration ::: The concentration of a chemical or other pollutant representing a health threat in a given environment.
extraordinary health, force and suppleness and seeks to liberate it from the habits by which it is subjected to ordinary physical
Faith Healing, Drugless Healing Apart from the regular medical and surgical practice, widespread forms of drugless healing are employed today. Public opinion generally is either frankly skeptical about the whole matter, or believes that such afford safe and easy means of relief and escape from suffering and disease. As a whole, these forms of faith or magnetic healing depend on the “inborn or inherent, ability of the ‘healer’ or practitioner to convey healthy life-force from himself to the diseased person. This is the key to success, or the lack of success, in all cases, and in all kinds of healing of whatever so-called ‘school’ ” (SOPh 622). If the practitioner succeeds in conveying the vitality of the pranic fluids from his own healthy body to the diseased body or organ of another person, that healthy life-force “expels” or changes the inharmonious vibrations in the afflicted part and, by restoring harmony there, brings about health. Such cures can be permanent; usually they are temporary, lasting from a few days to a few years.
Family Therapy ::: Treatment involving family members which seeks to change the unhealthy familial patterns and interactions.
FATIGUE. ::: In the ordinary condition of the body if you oblige the body to do too much work, it can do with the support of the vital force. But as soon as the work is done, the vital force withdraws and then the body feels fatigue. If this is done too much and for too long a time, there may be a breakdown of health and strength under the oveisOafn. Rest is then needed for recovery. If, however, the mind and the vital get the habit of opening to the Mother’s Force, they are then supported by the Force and may even be fully filled with it — the Force does the work and the body feels no strain or fatigue before or after.
Financial_porn ::: is a slang term used to describe sensationalist reports of financial news and products causing irrational buying that can be detrimental to investors' financial health. Short-term focus by the media on a financial topic can create excitement that does little to help investors make smart, long-term financial decisions, and in many cases clouds investors' decision-making ability. Expanded media coverage, specifically the advent of 24-hour cable news networks and the internet and the tools it has provided the financial industry, has led to a large increase in financial porn. Examples of financial porn include constant advertisements of easy-to-use trading-strategy products that purport to turn minimal investments into small fortunes, media coverage of the latest and greatest sector trends and magazines with front pages that claim to have the next 10-must-own mutual funds of next year. Many of these products and ideas expose investors to great risks posed by both the movement of the market and the risk of fraud.
flourish ::: v. i. --> To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
The simplest approach to quantification of a risk with a limited treatment of each risk component (e.g. source terms, transport, health effects, etc.).
Four also appears in the sacred key-numbers 4, 3, 2 (in this sequence): these are the basic numbers used in esoteric computations, and hence they form the numerical structure of the time periods of the four yugas of ancient India, which likewise were prominent in ancient Chaldean calculations — for the numerical science was the same in both lands. “The sacredness of the cycle of 4320, with additional cyphers, lies in the fact that the figures which compose it, taken separately or joined in various combinations, are each and all symbolical of the greatest mysteries in Nature. Indeed, whether one takes the 4 separately, or the 3 by itself, or the two together making 7, or again the three [4, 3, 2] added together and yielding 9, all these numbers have their application in the most sacred and occult things, and record the workings of Nature in her eternally periodical phenomena. They are never erring, perpetually recurring numbers, unveiling, to him who studies the secrets of Nature, a truly divine System, an intelligent plan in Cosmogony, which results in natural cosmic divisions of times, seasons, invisible influences, astronomical phenomena, with their action and reaction on terrestrial and even moral nature; on birth, death, and growth, on health and disease. All these natural events are based and depend upon cyclical processes in the Kosmos itself, producing periodic agencies which, acting from without, affect the Earth and all that lives and breathes on it, from one end to the other of any Manvantara. Causes and effects are esoteric, exoteric, and endexoteric, so to say” (SD 2:73-4).
ftiction ::: n. --> The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action.
The resistance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion.
A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or
Furthermore, because it is an expression of energy, all vibration is force and energy itself, and hence capable of arousing energies or forces of exactly the same quality or rate of intensity in other beings which they affect — this being the reason behind sympathetic vibration. When vibrations thus interlock and synchronize in rate, intensity, and quality, we have what is called sympathy, love, or attraction, and such sympathetic vibration is operative on all the planes of universal nature. Not only is this the case in all relations of humans with each other, but likewise sympathetic vibration plays an enormous part in such matters as mob psychology, quick electrical sympathies affecting audiences, hates and rebellions — even what is known as health and disease are communicated by means of vibrations, the one first affected being able to communicate his “affection” of whatever kind to others who are at the time negative to the vibrational impact and in time vibrating synchronously with the impacting energy. There is, of course, such a thing as resistance, which expresses itself in manifold ways, such as being able to throw off the vibration affecting it, and even to return it upon the sender, consciously or unconsciously; and herein lies the secret of the old medieval saying that curses come home to roost, or that if the magician is not stronger than the elementals or nature spirits he attempts to control, he is almost invariably destined to become their victim.
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gymnastical ::: a. --> Pertaining to athletic exercises intended for health, defense, or diversion; -- said of games or exercises, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin, etc.; also, pertaining to disciplinary exercises for the intellect; athletic; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc.
hail ::: n. --> Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones.
A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call. ::: v. i. --> To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.
hale ::: a. --> Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body. ::: n. --> Welfare. ::: v. t.
hardiest ::: being in robust and sturdy good health.
Hatha yoga practices can be exceedingly dangerous to sanity and health. Being of nonphysical nature on one side, they can adversely affect the mind, and in extreme cases even dislodge the mind from its normal and proper seat, producing insanity. Being of a physical nature also, they interfere with the proper pranic circulations in the body; the pranas when left alone are usually productive of health, and when disturbed by attempted meddling produce disease.
Hathayoga: Yoga in its aspect of physical health discipline.
Haurvatat: In Zoroastrianism, one of the six Amesha Spentas (q.v.), personified representation of “saving health,” spirit of the waters.
Hazard Evaluation ::: A component of risk evaluation that involves gathering and evaluating data on the types of health injury or disease that may be produced by a chemical and on the conditions of exposure under which such health effects are produced.
Hazard Identification::: The process of determining whether exposure to an agent can cause an increase in the incidence of a health condition.
Hazardous Chemical ::: An EPA designation for any hazardous material requiring an MSDS under OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard. Such substances are capable of producing fires and explosions or adverse health effects like cancer and dermatitis. Hazardous chemicals are distinct from hazardous waste.
Hazard Ranking System (HRS) ::: The principle screening tool used by EPA to evaluate risks to public health and the environment associated with abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. The HRS calculates a score based on the potential of hazardous substances spreading from the site through the air, surface water, or groundwater, and on other factors such as density and proximity of human population. This score is the primary factor in deciding if the site should be on the National Priorities List and, if so, what ranking it should have compared to other sites on the list.
heal ::: 1. To restore to health or soundness; cure. 2.* Fig. To restore (a person) to spiritual wholeness. 3. To become whole and sound; return to health. 4. To bring to an end or conclusion, as conflicts between people or groups, usually with a strong implication of restoring former amity; settle; reconcile. *heals, healed, healing.
healthful ::: a. --> Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.
Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet.
Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition.
Well-disposed; favorable.
healthfully ::: adv. --> In health; wholesomely.
healthfulness ::: n. --> The state of being healthful.
healthily ::: adv. --> In a healthy manner.
healthiness ::: n. --> The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.
healthlessness ::: n. --> The state of being health/ess.
healthless ::: n. --> Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm.
Not conducive to health; unwholesome.
health ::: n. --> The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain.
A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast.
healthsome ::: a. --> Wholesome; salubrious.
healthward ::: a. & adv. --> In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency.
healthy ::: superl. --> Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.
Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion.
Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.
heal ::: v. t. --> To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.
To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound.
To restore to original purity or integrity.
To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.
hearty ::: superl. --> Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.
Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak; as, a hearty timber.
Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant; as, hearty food; a hearty meal.
He is often identified with Mercury, the divine healer or cosmic serpent, represented by the caduceus of Mercury; and in some of his functions he is the same as Ptah in Egypt, creative intellect or wisdom, and as Apollo, Baal, Adonis, and Hercules (SD 2:208; 1:353). Also called the serpent and the savior: “Esculapius, Serapis, Pluto, Knoum, and Kneph, are all deities with the attributes of the serpent. Says Dupuis, ‘They are all healers, givers of health, spiritual and physical, and of enlightenment’ ” (SD 2:26). Thus Aesculapius is mystically the divine healer or healing power, the ray of divine wisdom emanating from the spiritual sun in man.
hele ::: n. --> Health; welfare. ::: v. t. --> To hide; to cover; to roof.
High Risk Community ::: A community located within the vicinity of numerous sites or facilities or other potential sources of environmental exposure/health hazards which may result in high levels of exposure to contaminants or pollutants. In determining risk or potential risk, factors such as total weight of toxic contaminants, toxicity, routes of exposure, and other factors may be used.
homeopathy ::: n. --> The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy.
Hormesis ::: The notion that small doses of radiation can be healthful.
HOS-STPL ::: Hospital Operating System - STructured Programming Language. A Fortran-like language with structured extensions.[HOS-STPL User Manual, Health Services Research, US Public Health Service (Jan 1975)].
HOS-STPL Hospital Operating System - STructured Programming Language. A {Fortran}-like language with structured extensions. ["HOS-STPL User Manual", Health Services Research, US Public Health Service (Jan 1975)].
hugieiēs [Greek] ::: of the health.
Human Health Risk ::: The likelihood that a given exposure or series of exposures may have or will damage the health of individuals.
Humors In medieval European medical thought, a fluid or juice, applied especially the four fluids — blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile) — which were thought to determine a person’s health and temperament. This theory derived from classical sources. “These vital spirits and humors corresponded, however imperfectly, to the pranic fluids of ancient Hindu teaching — considered to be both ethereal essences and physical humors. From early mediaeval times up to the recent present, medicine consistently taught that normal physical health in the human body was maintained when these vital spirits and humors were operating in equilibrium, and that disease and even death were products of their malfunctioning. The archaic ages were unanimous in their agreement on these points” (FSO 556).
hygeian ::: a. --> Relating to Hygeia, the goddess of health; of or pertaining to health, or its preservation.
hygeia ::: n. --> The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius.
Hygeia or Hygea (Greek) hygieia. Health; goddess of health, daughter of Aesculapius, represented as a maiden feeding a serpent from a cup — the serpent referring generally to the vital pathways or flow of the buddhi, often alluded to in Hindu writings as kundalini, drinking from the cup of knowledge. Identified with the Roman Salus.
hygiene ::: n. --> That department of sanitary science which treats of the preservation of health, esp. of households and communities; a system of principles or rules designated for the promotion of health.
hygienic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to health or hygiene; sanitary.
hygienics ::: n. --> The science of health; hygiene.
hygiology ::: n. --> A treatise on, or the science of, the preservation of health.
Hypnotism [from Greek hypnos sleep] One name for an artificially produced somnambulistic, entranced, or psychologized state. A better word for the procedure is psychologization, hypnotism being but one phase of the general subject which includes fascination, multiple or double personality, some religious ecstasies, and different methods of psychic healing. All these things operate in and upon the important intermediate part between our spiritual and physical-astral self and usually affect the latter self very strongly. This intermediate part is the human soul of the reincarnating entity — the man or woman we see and know. As this includes the psychomental-emotional powers and faculties, it is intimately related to intelligence and sanity, to emotions and conduct, and to health.
hypochondriasis ::: n. --> A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health.
iatrochemistry ::: n. --> Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by chemical principles.
illness ::: n. --> The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness.
Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness.
Wrong moral conduct; wickedness.
ill-tempered ::: a. --> Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.
Unhealthy; ill-conditioned.
impair ::: v. t. --> To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.
To grow worse; to deteriorate. ::: a. --> Not fit or appropriate.
Indifferents: (Gr. adiaphora) In Stoic ethics those things which are in themselves neither good nor bad, as producing neither virtue nor vice; such as life, health, pleasure, beauty, wealth, noble birth, and their contraries. The Stoics further distinguished between indifferents that are to be preferred (proegmena) and those that are not to be preferred (apoproegmena). The former, though not goods, have a certain value and are the objects of natural inclination. -- G.R.M.
indispose ::: v. t. --> To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.
To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat.
To disincline; to render averse or unfavorable; as, a love of pleasure indisposes the mind to severe study; the pride and selfishness of men indispose them to religious duties.
infirmity ::: a. --> The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind.
A personal frailty or failing; foible; eccentricity; a weakness or defect.
injure ::: v. t. --> To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind.
injurious ::: a. --> Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable.
Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, credit, reputation, property, etc.
injury ::: a. --> Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character.
inoculation ::: n. --> The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.
The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh.
Fig.: The communication of principles, especially false principles, to the mind.
In popular modern theosophical literature, the word has also been applied to the phantoms or kama-rupic shades of disimbodied persons in general, especially to the case of grossly materialistic humans whose evil impulses and appetites, still inhering in the kama-rupic phantom, draw these phantoms to physical spheres congenial to them. Even these last are a real danger to the psychological health and sanity of imbodied humans, and literally haunt living human beings possessing tendencies akin to their own. Such soulless astral shells are less dangerous than actual elementaries because far less conscious, but are still filled with energies of a depraved and ignoble type. Their destiny is like that of all other pretas or bhutas — ultimate disintegration; for the gross astral atoms composing them slowly dissolve after the manner of a dissolving column of smoke.
insalubrious ::: a. --> Not salubrious or healthful; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate.
insalubrity ::: n. --> Unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness; as, the insalubrity of air, water, or climate.
insalutary ::: a. --> Not salutary or wholesome; unfavorable to health.
Not tending to safety; productive of evil.
insanitary ::: a. --> Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage.
INSIGHT ::: A simulation and modelling language especially for health care problems.[Simulation Modeling with INSIGHT, S.D. Roberts Proc 1983 Winter Sim Conf, S.D. Roberts et al eds, pp.7-16]. (1995-03-03)
INSIGHT A {simulation} and modelling language especially for health care problems. ["Simulation Modeling with INSIGHT", S.D. Roberts Proc 1983 Winter Sim Conf, S.D. Roberts et al eds, pp.7-16]. (1995-03-03)
Interview ::: A subjective personality and mental health assessment typically consisting of questions and answers.
intuitionistic logic ::: (logic, mathematics) Brouwer's foundational theory of mathematics which says that you should not count a proof of (There exists x such that P(x)) valid proof of (A or B) is valid only if it actually exhibits either a proof of A or a proof of B.In intuitionism, you cannot in general assert the statement (A or not-A) (the principle of the excluded middle); (A or not-A) is not proven unless you have a proof of A or a proof of not-A. If A happens to be undecidable in your system (some things certainly will be), then there will be no proof of (A or not-A).This is pretty annoying; some kinds of perfectly healthy-looking examples of proof by contradiction just stop working. Of course, excluded middle is a theorem of classical logic (i.e. non-intuitionistic logic). .(2001-03-18)
intuitionistic logic "logic, mathematics" Brouwer's foundational theory of mathematics which says that you should not count a proof of (There exists x such that P(x)) valid unless the proof actually gives a method of constructing such an x. Similarly, a proof of (A or B) is valid only if it actually exhibits either a proof of A or a proof of B. In intuitionism, you cannot in general assert the statement (A or not-A) (the principle of the {excluded middle}); (A or not-A) is not proven unless you have a proof of A or a proof of not-A. If A happens to be {undecidable} in your system (some things certainly will be), then there will be no proof of (A or not-A). This is pretty annoying; some kinds of perfectly healthy-looking examples of {proof by contradiction} just stop working. Of course, excluded middle is a theorem of {classical logic} (i.e. non-intuitionistic logic). {History (http://britanica.com/bcom/eb/article/3/0,5716,118173+14+109826,00.html)}. (2001-03-18)
invalescence ::: n. --> Strength; health.
invaletudinary ::: a. --> Wanting health; valetudinary.
invalid ::: a. --> Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.
Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement.
A person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health. ::: n.
invalidity ::: n. --> Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will.
Want of health; infirmity.
In view of the electric nature of matter, physical disorder may be regarded as an electrical disharmony or wrong, since disease always changes the polarity of the body, more or less. The vital currents of human electricity connect the conscious person with his body by the living wires of nerves. The rhythmic motion or natural harmony vibrating in each cell and organ at its own rate, is responsive to the universal vibration or Great Breath which in other modes of motion manifests as heat, light, sound, density, etc. But beyond the electrical and vibrational states of the body, and above the mental influence, is the essential self, the source of all harmony or rhythmic procedures in all below it, keyed to harmony and striving to raise the lower nature to act in unison with its finer and greater powers. When the instinct of the animal body, the mental reasoning faculties, and the reimbodying ego’s intuition are functioning together, the person is keyed to health, sanity, and wisdom. Otherwise, the real inner conflict manifests in some form of disorder.
isopathy ::: n. --> The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.
The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal.
The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.
It is here, when this foundation has been secured, that the practice of Asana and Pranayama come in and can then bear their perfect fruits. By itself the control of the mind and moral being only puts our normal consciousness into the right preliminary condition; it cannot bring about that evolution or manifestation of the higher psychic being which is necessary for the greater aims of Yoga. In order to bring about this manifestation the present nodus of the vital and physical body with the mental being has to be loosened and the way made clear for the ascent through the greater psychic being to the union with the superconscient Purusha. This can be done by Pranayama. Asana is used by the Rajayoga only in its easiest and most natural position, that naturally taken by the body when seated and gathered together, but with the back and head strictly erect and in a straight line, so that there may be no deflection of the spinal cord. The object of the latter rule is obviously connected with the theory of the six chakras and the circulation of the vital energy between the muladhara and the brahmarandhra. The Rajayogic Pranayama purifies and clears the nervous system; it enables us to circulate the vital energy equally through the body and direct it also where we will according to need, and thus maintain a perfect health and soundness of the body and the vital being; it gives us control of all the five habitual operations of the vital energy in the system and at the same time breaks down the habitual divisions by which only the ordinary mechanical processes of the vitality are possible to the normal life. It opens entirely the six centres of the psycho-physical system and brings into the waking consciousness the power of the awakened Shakti and the light of the unveiled Purusha on each of the ascending planes. Coupled with the use of the mantra it brings the divine energy into the body and prepares for and facilitates that concentration in Samadhi which is the crown of the Rajayogic method. Rajayogic concentration is divided into four stages; it commences with the drawing both of the mind and senses from outward things, proceeds to the holding of the one object of concentration to the exclusion of all other ideas and mental activities, then to the prolonged absorption of the mind in this object, finally, to the complete ingoing of the consciousness by which it is lost to all outward mental activity in the oneness of Samadhi. The real object of this mental discipline is to draw away the mind from the outward and the mental world into union with the divine Being. Th
refore in the first three stages use has to be made of some mental means or support by which the mind, accustomed to run about from object to object, shall fix on one alone, and that one must be something which represents the idea of the Divine. It is usually a name or a form or a mantra by which the thought can be fixed in the sole knowledge or adoration of the Lord. By this concentration on the idea the mind enters from the idea into its reality, into which it sinks silent, absorbed, unified. This is the traditional method. There are, however, others which are equally of a Rajayogic character, since they use the mental and psychical being as key. Some of them are directed rather to the quiescence of the mind than to its immediate absorption, as the discipline by which the mind is simply watched and allowed to exhaust its habit of vagrant thought in a purposeless running from which it feels all sanction, purpose and interest withdrawn, and that, more strenuous and rapidly effective, by which all outward-going thought is excluded and the mind forced to sink into itself where in its absolute quietude it can only
reflect the pure Being or pass away into its superconscient existence. The method differs, the object and the result are the same. Here, it might be supposed, the whole action and aim of Rajayoga must end. For its action is the stilling of the waves of consciousness, its manifold activities, cittavrtti, first, through a habitual replacing of the turbid rajasic activities by the quiet and luminous sattwic, then, by the stilling of all activities; and its object is to enter into silent communion of soul and unity with the Divine. As a matter of fact we find that the system of Rajayoga includes other objects,—such as the practice and use of occult powers,—some of which seem to be unconnected with and even inconsistent with its main purpose. These powers or siddhis are indeed frequently condemned as dangers and distractions which draw away the Yogin from his sole legitimate aim of divine union. On the way, th
refore, it would naturally seem as if they ought to be avoided; and once the goal is reached, it would seem that they are then frivolous and superfluous. But Rajayoga is a psychic science and it includes the attainment of all the higher states of consciousness and their powers by which the mental being rises towards the superconscient as well as its ultimate and supreme possibility of union with the Highest. Moreover, the Yogin, while in the body, is not always mentally inactive and sunk in Samadhi, and an account of the powers and states which are possible to him on the higher planes of his being is necessary to the completeness of the science. These powers and experiences belong, first, to the vital and mental planes above this physical in which we live, and are natural to the soul in the subtle body; as the dependence on the physical body decreases, these abnormal activities become possible and even manifest themselves without being sought for. They can be acquired and fixed by processes which the science gives, and their use then becomes subject to the will; or they can be allowed to develop of themselves and used only when they come, or when the Divine within moves us to use them; or else, even though thus naturally developing and acting, they may be rejected in a single-minded devotion to the one supreme goal of the Yoga. Secondly, there are fuller, greater powers belonging to the supramental planes which are the very powers of the Divine in his spiritual and supramentally ideative being. These cannot be acquired at all securely or integrally by personal effort, but can only come from above, or else can become natural to the man if and when he ascends beyond mind and lives in the spiritual being, power, consciousness and ideation. They then become, not abnormal and laboriously acquired siddhis, but simply the very nature and method of his action, if he still continues to be active in the world-existence.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 539-40-41-42
“ . . . It is similar to the regular and healthy pulsation of the heart, as the life fluid passes through its hollow muscles. Could the human heart be made luminous, and the living and throbbing organ be made visible, so as to have it reflected upon a screen, . . . then every one would see the Sun-spot phenomenon repeated every second — due to its contraction and the rushing of the blood” (SD 1:541-2). The sunspots serve not only as vents for egress and ingress of the steams of lives in constant circulation throughout this solar system, but such solar pulsations are cosmically rhythmic and the well-being of the entire solar system is controlled by the vital and intellectual energies constantly active in and through the sun, and whose functional operations are physically expressed by the appearance and disappearance of the sunspots.
Jnana-sakti has the power or intrinsic faculty of movement of intelligence in the universe, which likewise expresses itself in man, a child of that universe; consequently it acts according to its own peculiarities or characteristics. The adept, knowing this through the power of his spiritual monad, can at any time select any one of these saktis of his constitution and use it alone or in combination with others to produce both interior or exterior phenomena. He does so by an expenditure of one or the other of the saktis that he is using, which are concentrated so to speak in his constitution. Hence their use is always followed by a corresponding reaction, much after the fashion of an electrical discharge; and a certain time is always required for the constitution to reestablish its normal equilibrium. Such equilibrium is a condition of health.
know whether we are in the presence of “a spirit of health or goblin damned,” whether we are
kursaal ::: n. --> A public hall or room, for the use of visitors at watering places and health resorts in Germany.
Laboratory INstrument Computer "computer" (LINC) A computer which was originally designed in 1962 by {Wesley Clark}, {Charles Molnar}, Severo Ornstein and others at the {Lincoln Laboratory Group}, to facilitate scientific research. With its {digital logic} and {stored programs}, the LINC is accepted by the {IEEE Computer Society} to be the World's first {interactive} {personal computer}. The machine was developed to fulfil a need for better laboratory tools by doctors and medical researchers. It would supplant the 1958 {Average Response Computer}, and was designed for individual use. Led by William N. Papian and mainly funded by the {National Institute of Health}, Wesley Clark designed the logic while Charles Molnar did the engineering. The first LINC was finished in March 1962. In January 1963, the project moved to {MIT}, and then to {Washington University} (in St. Louis) in 1964. The LINC had a simple {operating system}, four "knobs" (which was used like a {mouse}), a {Soroban keyboard} (for alpha-numeric data entry), two {LINCtape} drives and a small {CRT} display. It originally had one {kilobit} of {core memory}, but this was expanded to 2 Kb later. The computer was made out of {Digital Equipment Corporation} (DEC) hardware modules. Over 24 LINC systems had been built before late 1964 when DEC began to sell the LINC commercially. After the introduction of the {PDP-8}, {Dick Clayton} at DEC produced a rather frightening hybrid of the LINC and PDP-8 called a LINC-8. This really was not a very satisfactory machine, but it used the new PDP-8 style DEC cards and was cheaper and easier to produce. It still didn't sell that well. In the late 1960s, Clayton brought the design to its pinnacle with the PDP-12, an amazing tour de force of the LINC concept; along with about as seamless a merger as could be done with the PDP-8. This attempted to incorporate {TTL logic} into the machine. The end of the LINC line had been reached. Due to the success of the LINC-8, {Spear, Inc.} produced a LINC clone (since the design was in the {public domain}). The interesting thing about the Spear {micro-LINC 300} was that it used {MECL} II logic. MECL logic was known for its blazing speed (at the time!), but the Spear computer ran at very modest rates. In 1995 the last of the classic LINCs was turned off for the final time after 28 years of service. This LINC had been in use in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory of Auditory Physiology (EPL) of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. On 15 August 1995, it was transferred to the MIT {Computer Museum} where it was put on display. {LINC/8, PDP-12 (http://faqs.org/faqs/dec-faq/pdp8/section-7.html)}. {Lights out for last LINC (http://rleweb.mit.edu/publications/currents/6-1linc.HTM)}. ["Computers and Automation", Nov. 1964, page 43]. (1999-05-20)
Laboratory INstrument Computer ::: (computer) (LINC) A computer which was originally designed in 1962 by Wesley Clark, Charles Molnar, Severo Ornstein and others at the Lincoln stored programs, the LINC is accepted by the IEEE Computer Society to be the World's first interactive personal computer.The machine was developed to fulfil a need for better laboratory tools by doctors and medical researchers. It would supplant the 1958 Average Response Computer, and was designed for individual use.Led by William N. Papian and mainly funded by the National Institute of Health, Wesley Clark designed the logic while Charles Molnar did the engineering. The first LINC was finished in March 1962.In January 1963, the project moved to MIT, and then to Washington University (in St. Louis) in 1964.The LINC had a simple operating system, four knobs (which was used like a mouse), a Soroban keyboard (for alpha-numeric data entry), two LINCtape drives was expanded to 2 Kb later. The computer was made out of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) hardware modules.Over 24 LINC systems had been built before late 1964 when DEC began to sell the LINC commercially.After the introduction of the PDP-8, Dick Clayton at DEC produced a rather frightening hybrid of the LINC and PDP-8 called a LINC-8. This really was not a very satisfactory machine, but it used the new PDP-8 style DEC cards and was cheaper and easier to produce. It still didn't sell that well.In the late 1960s, Clayton brought the design to its pinnacle with the PDP-12, an amazing tour de force of the LINC concept; along with about as seamless a merger as could be done with the PDP-8. This attempted to incorporate TTL logic into the machine. The end of the LINC line had been reached.Due to the success of the LINC-8, Spear, Inc. produced a LINC clone (since the design was in the public domain). The interesting thing about the Spear micro-LINC 300 was that it used MECL II logic. MECL logic was known for its blazing speed (at the time!), but the Spear computer ran at very modest rates.In 1995 the last of the classic LINCs was turned off for the final time after 28 years of service. This LINC had been in use in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory of Auditory Physiology (EPL) of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.On 15 August 1995, it was transferred to the MIT Computer Museum where it was put on display. . .[Computers and Automation, Nov. 1964, page 43]. (1999-05-20)
LaborNet ::: An IGC network serving groups, unions and labour advocates interested in information sharing and collaboration with the intent of enhancing the human community health and safety issues, trade issues and international union solidarity and collaboration.
LaborNet An {IGC} network serving groups, unions and labour advocates interested in information sharing and collaboration with the intent of enhancing the human rights and economic justice of workers. Issues covered include workplace and community health and safety issues, trade issues and international union solidarity and collaboration.
languishing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Languish ::: a. --> Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.
Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look.
Latency Period::: The period of time from exposure to an agent to the onset of a health effect.
laudable ::: v. i. --> Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.
Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory "body" (LLNL) A research organaisatin operated by the {University of California} under a contract with the US Department of Energy. LLNL was founded on 2 September 1952 at the site of an old World War II naval air station. The Lab employs researchers from many scientific and engineering disciplines. Some of its departments are the National Ignition Facility, the Human Genome Center, the ASCI Tera-Scale Computing partnership, the Computer Security Technology Center, and the Site 300 Experimental Test Facility. Other research areas are Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Automation and Robotics, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Energy Research, Engineering, Environmental Science, Fusion, Geology and Geophysics, Health, Lasers and Optics, Materials Science, National Security, Physics, Sensors and Instrumentation, Space Science. LLNL also works with industry in research and licensing projects. At the end of fiscal year 1995, the lab had signed agreements for 193 cost-shared research projects involving 201 companies and worth nearly $600m. {(http://llnl.gov/)}. Address: Fremont, California, USA. (1996-10-30)
Level of Concern ::: The concentration in air of an extremely hazardous substance above which there may be serious immediate health effects to anyone exposed to it for short periods.
lose ::: v. t. --> To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one&
loss ::: v. t. --> The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.
The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.
That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable.
lusty ::: superl. --> Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body.
Beautiful; handsome; pleasant.
Of large size; big. [Obs.] " Three lusty vessels." Evelyn. Hence, sometimes, pregnant.
Lustful; lascivious.
malady ::: 1. Any disorder or disease of the body, esp. one that is chronic or deep-seated. 2. Any unwholesome, unhealthy, morbid or desperate condition. maladies.
malaria ::: n. --> Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.
A morbid condition produced by exhalations from decaying vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving rise to fever and ague and many other symptoms characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals.
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) ::: A compilation of information required under the OSHA Communication Standard on the identity of hazardous chemicals, health, and physical hazards, exposure limits, and precautions. Section 311 of SARA requires facilities to submit MSDSs under certain circumstances.
Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) ::: Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, a non-enforceable concentration of a drinking water contaminant, set at the level at which no known or anticipated adverse effects on human health occur and which allows an adequate safety margin. The MCLG is usually the starting point for determining the regulated Maximum Contaminant Level.
Mean: In general, that which in some way mediates or occupies a middle position among various things or between two extremes. Hence (especially in the plural) that through which an end is attained; in mathematics the word is used for any one of various notions of average; in ethics it represents moderation, temperance, prudence, the middle way. In mathematics: The arithmetic mean of two quantities is half their sum; the arithmetic mean of n quantities is the sum of the n quantities, divided by n. In the case of a function f(x) (say from real numbers to real numbers) the mean value of the function for the values x1, x2, . . . , xn of x is the arithmetic mean of f(x1), f(x2), . . . , f(xn). This notion is extended to the case of infinite sets of values of x by means of integration; thus the mean value of f(x) for values of x between a and b is ∫f(x)dx, with a and b as the limits of integration, divided by the difference between a and b. The geometric mean of or between, or the mean proportional between, two quantities is the (positive) square root of their product. Thus if b is the geometric mean between a and c, c is as many times greater (or less) than b as b is than a. The geometric mean of n quantities is the nth root of their product. The harmonic mean of two quantities is defined as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of their reciprocals. Hence the harmonic mean of a and b is 2ab/(a + b). The weighted mean or weighted average of a set of n quantities, each of which is associated with a certain number as weight, is obtained by multiplying each quantity by the associated weight, adding these products together, and then dividing by the sum of the weights. As under A, this may be extended to the case of an infinite set of quantities by means of integration. (The weights have the role of estimates of relative importance of the various quantities, and if all the weights are equal the weighted mean reduces to the simple arithmetic mean.) In statistics, given a population (i.e., an aggregate of observed or observable quantities) and a variable x having the population as its range, we have: The mean value of x is the weighted mean of the values of x, with the probability (frequency ratio) of each value taken as its weight. In the case of a finite population this is the same as the simple arithmetic mean of the population, provided that, in calculating the arithmetic mean, each value of x is counted as many times over as it occurs in the set of observations constituting the population. In like manner, the mean value of a function f(x) of x is the weighted mean of the values of f(x), where the probability of each value of x is taken as the weight of the corresponding value of f(x). The mode of the population is the most probable (most frequent) value of x, provided there is one such. The median of the population is so chosen that the probability that x be less than the median (or the probability that x be greater than the median) is ½ (or as near ½ as possible). In the case of a finite population, if the values of x are arranged in order of magnitude --repeating any one value of x as many times over as it occurs in the set of observations constituting the population --then the middle term of this series, or the arithmetic mean of the two middle terms, is the median. --A.C. In cosmology, the fundamental means (arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic) were used by the Greeks in describing or actualizing the process of becoming in nature. The Pythagoreans and the Platonists in particular made considerable use of these means (see the Philebus and the Timaeus more especially). These ratios are among the basic elements used by Plato in his doctrine of the mixtures. With the appearance of the qualitative physics of Aristotle, the means lost their cosmological importance and were thereafter used chiefly in mathematics. The modern mathematical theories of the universe make use of the whole range of means analyzed by the calculus of probability, the theory of errors, the calculus of variations, and the statistical methods. In ethics, the 'Doctrine of the Mean' is the moral theory of moderation, the development of the virtues, the determination of the wise course in action, the practice of temperance and prudence, the choice of the middle way between extreme or conflicting decisions. It has been developed principally by the Chinese, the Indians and the Greeks; it was used with caution by the Christian moralists on account of their rigorous application of the moral law. In Chinese philosophy, the Doctrine of the Mean or of the Middle Way (the Chung Yung, literally 'Equilibrium and Harmony') involves the absence of immoderate pleasure, anger, sorrow or joy, and a conscious state in which those feelings have been stirred and act in their proper degree. This doctrine has been developed by Tzu Shu (V. C. B.C.), a grandson of Confucius who had already described the virtues of the 'superior man' according to his aphorism "Perfect is the virtue which is according to the mean". In matters of action, the superior man stands erect in the middle and strives to follow a course which does not incline on either side. In Buddhist philosophy, the System of the Middle Way or Madhyamaka is ascribed more particularly to Nagarjuna (II c. A.D.). The Buddha had given his revelation as a mean or middle way, because he repudiated the two extremes of an exaggerated ascetlsm and of an easy secular life. This principle is also applied to knowledge and action in general, with the purpose of striking a happy medium between contradictory judgments and motives. The final objective is the realization of the nirvana or the complete absence of desire by the gradual destruction of feelings and thoughts. But while orthodox Buddhism teaches the unreality of the individual (who is merely a mass of causes and effects following one another in unbroken succession), the Madhyamaka denies also the existence of these causes and effects in themselves. For this system, "Everything is void", with the legitimate conclusion that "Absolute truth is silence". Thus the perfect mean is realized. In Greek Ethics, the doctrine of the Right (Mean has been developed by Plato (Philebus) and Aristotle (Nic. Ethics II. 6-8) principally, on the Pythagorean analogy between the sound mind, the healthy body and the tuned string, which has inspired most of the Greek Moralists. Though it is known as the "Aristotelian Principle of the Mean", it is essentially a Platonic doctrine which is preformed in the Republic and the Statesman and expounded in the Philebus, where we are told that all good things in life belong to the class of the mixed (26 D). This doctrine states that in the application of intelligence to any kind of activity, the supreme wisdom is to know just where to stop, and to stop just there and nowhere else. Hence, the "right-mean" does not concern the quantitative measurement of magnitudes, but simply the qualitative comparison of values with respect to a standard which is the appropriate (prepon), the seasonable (kairos), the morally necessary (deon), or generally the moderate (metrion). The difference between these two kinds of metretics (metretike) is that the former is extrinsic and relative, while the latter is intrinsic and absolute. This explains the Platonic division of the sciences into two classes: those involving reference to relative quantities (mathematical or natural), and those requiring absolute values (ethics and aesthetics). The Aristotelian analysis of the "right mean" considers moral goodness as a fixed and habitual proportion in our appetitions and tempers, which can be reached by training them until they exhibit just the balance required by the right rule. This process of becoming good develops certain habits of virtues consisting in reasonable moderation where both excess and defect are avoided: the virtue of temperance (sophrosyne) is a typical example. In this sense, virtue occupies a middle position between extremes, and is said to be a mean; but it is not a static notion, as it leads to the development of a stable being, when man learns not to over-reach himself. This qualitative conception of the mean involves an adaptation of the agent, his conduct and his environment, similar to the harmony displayed in a work of art. Hence the aesthetic aspect of virtue, which is often overstressed by ancient and neo-pagan writers, at the expense of morality proper. The ethical idea of the mean, stripped of the qualifications added to it by its Christian interpreters, has influenced many positivistic systems of ethics, and especially pragmatism and behaviourism (e.g., A. Huxley's rule of Balanced Excesses). It is maintained that it is also involved in the dialectical systems, such as Hegelianism, where it would have an application in the whole dialectical process as such: thus, it would correspond to the synthetic phase which blends together the thesis and the antithesis by the meeting of the opposites. --T.G. Mean, Doctrine of the: In Aristotle's ethics, the doctrine that each of the moral virtues is an intermediate state between extremes of excess and defect. -- O.R.M.
• MEDICINE. ::: Medical Science has been more a curse to rnankind than u blessing. It has weakened the natural health of man and multiplied individual diseases ; it has implanted fear and dependence in the mind and body ; it has taught our health to repose not on natural soundness but a rickety and distasteful witch compact from the mineral and vegetable kingdom.
morbid ::: a. --> Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.
Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.
morbose ::: a. --> Proceeding from disease; morbid; unhealthy.
morbosity ::: n. --> A diseased state; unhealthiness.
MSHA ::: The Department of Labor (DOL) Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is the agency directly responsible for the nation's mine safety and health programs.
National Emissions Standards For Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPS)::: Emissions standards set by EPA for an air pollutant not covered by NAAQS that may cause an increase in fatalities or in serious, irreversible, or incapacitating illness. Primary standards are designed to protect human health, secondary standards to protect public welfare (e.g., building facades, visibility, crops, and domestic animals).
Nature and kept within the narrow bounds of her normal ope- rations. Id the ancient tradition of Hatha Yoga it has always been supposed that this conquest could be pushed so far even as to conquer to a great extent the force of gravitation. By various subsidiary but elaborate processes the Hatha Yogin next contrives to keep the body free from all impurities and the ner- vous system unclogged for those exercises of respiration which are his most important instruments. These are called prana- yama, the control of the breath or vital power ; for breathing is the chief physical functioning of the vital forces. Prdnayaina, for the Hatha Yogin, serves a double purpose. First, it completes the perfection of the body. The vitality is liberated from many of the ordinary necessities of physical Nature ; robust health, prolonged youth, often an extraordinary longevity arc attained.
New Thought: The name of a movement, based on the work of Phineas P. Quimby (1802-1866), who practiced mental and spiritual healing. The movement adopted the name The National New Thought Alliance in 1908, and became the International New Thought Alliance in 1914. Its constitution, adopted in 1916, states that its purpose is “to teach the Infinitude of the Supreme One, the Divinity of Man and his Infinite possibilities through the creative power of constructive thinking and obedience to the voice of the Indwelling Presence which is our source of Inspiration, Power, Health and Prosperity.”
NIHCL ::: A class library for C++ from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
NIHCL A {class library} for {C++} from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
NIH ::: The United States National Institutes of Health.
NIH The United States National Institutes of Health.
NIOSH ::: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). A federal agency which, among other activities, tests and certifies respiratory protective devices and air sampling detector tubes, recommends occupational exposure limits for various substances and assists OSHA and MSHA in occupational safety and health investigations and research.
noisome ::: a. --> Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.
Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.
“No system of Yoga should ever be practiced unless under the direct teaching of one who knows the dangers of meddling with the psycho-mental apparatus of the human constitution, for dangers lurk at every step, and the meddler in these things is likely to bring disaster upon himself, both in matters of health and as regards sane mental equilibrium. The higher branches of Yoga, however, such as the Raja-Yoga and Jnana-Yoga, implying strict spiritual and intellectual discipline combined with a fervid love for all beings, are perfectly safe. It is, however, the ascetic practices, etc., and the teachings that go with them, wherein lies the danger to the unwary, and they should be carefully avoided” (OG 183).
nourish ::: v. t. --> To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
To support; to maintain.
To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.
To cherish; to comfort.
To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to
noxious ::: injurious to physical or mental health.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)::: NRC is an independent regulatory agency created out of the Atomic Energy Commission in 1975 to regulate the civilian uses of nuclear material. Specifically, the NRC is responsible for ensuring that activities associated with the operation of nuclear power plants and fuel cycle plants, and medical, industrial, and research applications, are carried out with adequate protection of the public health and safety, the environment, and national security. At full complement, the NRC has five Commissioners nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate; the President designates one of the Commissioners as Chairman. NRC regulates all commercial Atomic Energy Act materials. Except in a few cases, NRC does not regulate DOE. NRC does not regulate NARM.
nutrition ::: n. --> In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.
In a more limited sense, the process by which the living tissues take up, from the blood, matters necessary either for their repair or for the performance of their healthy functions.
That which nourishes; nutriment.
Occupational Safety and Heath Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor. Federal agency with safety and health regulatory and enforcement authorities for most U.S. industry and business.
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of bestowing long life and improving the health of
of health and longevity. His corresponding angel
One phase of hatha yoga is the pranayama (suppression of the breath), interference with the normal and healthy respiration of the body; a practice which can readily produce tuberculosis of the lungs. It is breathing deeply, healthfully, and as often as common sense suggests, that brings benefits to the body because bringing about a better oxygenation of the blood and therefore a better physical tone. In very rare circumstances only, where a chela has advanced relatively far mentally and spiritually, but has still an unfortunate and heavy physical karma as yet not worked out, it may possibly be proper, under the guidance of a genuine teacher, to use the hatha yoga methods in a limited degree, but only under the teacher’s own eye. For this reason hatha yoga books are occasionally mentioned in theosophical literature — the Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali, for example, is a hatha yoga scripture, but one of the highest type. But generally, hatha yoga practices are injurious and therefore unwise, for they distract the attention from things of the spirit and direct it to the lower parts of the constitution.
On the other hand, we are morally obligated to help the sick and suffering in the right ways of treating the body, mind, and soul; right because involving the arousing of the patient’s own inner powers of spiritual, moral, and intellectual resistance against the weaknesses in himself. The wrong ways consist in the overpowering — however good the motive of the practitioner may be — of the moral instincts, will, and conscience of the sufferer, thereby rendering him weaker than before. In genuine mesmerism the vital emanation from a pure-minded, unselfish, healthy operator arouses the inert or disordered forces of the diseased organ or body, causing them to vibrate harmoniously and naturally. Thus the sufferer makes himself whole or healthy, and has no bad reaction. The best of all drugless healing methods is where the sufferer is brought into a state of hope, self-confidence, and the higher kind of resignation bringing peace and inner quiet, all of which works in harmony with the body’s natural resources of health and healing. This is the kind of faith-cure used by Jesus and others of similar spiritual and intellectual stature.
overuse strain injury "medical" (Or "repetitive strain injury", RSI, "repetitive strain disorder") Any tendon or muscle injury resulting from overuse, usually in the hand, wrist, or arm. Injury may be caused by any combination of repetitive, unacustomed, or prolonged movements, forcefulness, or an awkward position (often due to bad {ergonomics}). The symptoms are pain, tingling, weakness, numbness, swelling, cracking, stiffness, or reduced coordination. Common conditions are: Carpal tunnel syndrome, where swelling of the membrane linings in your wrist surrounding the tendons that bend your fingers compresses the median nerve. This may result in numbness and pain in the hand, arm, shoulder, and neck. Tennis elbow, where rotating your wrist and using force causes a form of epicondylitis. Tendinitis, where unacustomed exercise or repeated awkward movements inflame wrist, elbow, or shoulder tendons, often leading to severe stiffness. Trigger finger, a popping or catching sensation when you bend your finger, wrist, or shoulder. This form of tenosynovitis is caused by repetitive hand movements. To prevent the condition worsening, treat the pain with heat, cold, or aspirin, ibuprofen, or naproxen sodium; rest; or immobilise the injured area with a splint or bandage. See a doctor. {Amara's RSI information (http://amara.com/aboutme/rsi.html)}. {RSI links from Yahoo (http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Diseases_and_Conditions/Repetitive_Strain_Disorder/)}. {Guide to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (http://sechrest.com/mmg/cts/)}. {CTS from Yahoo (http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Diseases_and_Conditions/Carpal_Tunnel_Syndrome/)}. (1999-10-03)
pestiferous ::: a. --> Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.
Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue.
Pleasures of the imagination: The moderate, healthful, and agreeable stimulus to the mind, resulting (in the primary class) from the properties of greatness, novelty, and beauty (kinship, color, proportionality, etc. ) in objects actually seen; (in the secondary class) from the processes of comparison, association, and remodelling set up in the mind by the products of art or by the recollection of the beauties of nature. (Addison.) -- K.E.G.
plethora ::: n. --> Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; -- opposed to anaemia.
State of being overfull; excess; superabundance.
poison ::: n. --> Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.
That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.
To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.
To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.
police ::: n. --> A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.
That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or
poorliness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being poorly; ill health.
precarious ::: a. --> Depending on the will or pleasure of another; held by courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another; as, precarious privileges.
Held by a doubtful tenure; depending on unknown causes or events; exposed to constant risk; not to be depended on for certainty or stability; uncertain; as, a precarious state of health; precarious fortunes.
Primary Drinking Water Regulation::: Applies to public water systems and specifies a contaminant level, which, in the judgment of the EPA Administrator, will not adversely affect human health.
prophylaxis ::: n. --> The art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease; the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health; preservative or preventive treatment.
propine ::: v. t. --> To pledge; to offer as a toast or a health in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup.
Hence, to give in token of friendship.
To give, or deliver; to subject. ::: n. --> A pledge.
prurigo ::: n. --> A papular disease of the skin, of which intense itching is the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy cuticle in color.
Psychic Powers ::: The lowest powers of the intermediate or soul-nature in the human being, and we are exercising andusing them all the time -- yes, and we cannot even control them properly! Men's emotional thoughts arevagrant, wandering, uncertain, lacking precision, without positive direction, and feebly governed. Theaverage man cannot even keep his emotions and thoughts in the grip of his self-conscious will. Hisweakest passions lead him astray. It is this part of his nature whence flow his "psychic powers." It isman's work to transmute them and to turn them to employment which is good and useful and holy.Indeed, the average man cannot control the ordinary psycho-astral-physical powers that he commonlyuses; and when, forsooth, people talk about cultivating occult powers, by which they mean merelypsychic powers, it simply shows that through ignorance they know not to what they refer. Their mindsare clouded as regards the actual facts. Those who talk so glibly of cultivating occult powers are just thepeople who cannot be trusted as real guides, for before they themselves can crawl in these mysteriousregions of life, they seem to desire to teach other people how to run and to leap. What most people reallymean, apparently, when they speak of cultivating occult powers is "I want to get power over otherpeople." Such individuals are totally unfit to wield occult powers of any kind, for the motive is in mostcases purely selfish, and their minds are beclouded and darkened with ignorance.The so-called psychic powers have the same relation to genuine spiritual powers that baby-talk has to thediscourse of a wise philosopher. Before occult powers of any kind can be cultivated safely, man mustlearn the first lesson of the mystic knowledge, which is to control himself; and all powers that later hegains must be laid on the altar of impersonal service -- on the altar of service to mankind.Psychic powers will come to men as a natural development of their inner faculties, as evolution performsits wonderful work in future ages. New senses, and new organs corresponding to these new senses, bothinterior and exterior, will come into active functioning in the distant future. But it is perilous both tosanity and to health to attempt to force the development of these prematurely, and unless the training anddiscipline be done under the watchful and compassionate eye of a genuine occult teacher who knowswhat he is about. The world even today contains hundreds of thousands of "sensitives" who are the firstfeeble forerunners of what future evolution will make common in the human race; but these sensitivesare usually in a very unfortunate and trying situation, for they themselves misunderstand what is in them,and they are misunderstood by their fellows. (See also Occultism)
Puraka (Sanskrit) Pūraka [from the verbal root pṛ to fill] Inhaling; one of the practices used in hatha yoga for the regulation of the breath. In puraka, the right nostril is closed with the forefinger and then the breath is drawn up through the left nostril; and then the left nostril is closed and the air drawn up through the right nostril. Unless such practices are conducted under direct supervision of an adept, the breath control practices of puraka, kumbhaka, and rechaka are very dangerous to the health and disturb the mental balance, often causing insanity, and hence cannot be recommended.
Range ::: refers to the difference between the low and high prices for a security or index over a specific time period. Range defines the price spread for a defined period, such as a day, month or year, and indicates the security’s price volatility. The more volatile the security or index, the wider the range. The range expands over greater time periods; a security’s daily range is typically smaller than its 52-week range, which in turn is tighter than its five-year or 10-year range. Technical analysts closely follow ranges since they are useful in pinpointing entry and exit points for trades. Investors and traders may refer to a range, as a price range or trading range. BREAKING DOWN 'Range' The range depends on the type of security; and for a stock, the sector in which it operates. For example, the range for fixed-income instruments is much tighter than that for commodities and equities, which are more volatile in price. Even for fixed-income instruments, a Treasury bond or government security typically has a smaller trading range than a junk bond or convertible security. Many factors affect a security’s price, and hence its range. Macroeconomic factors such as the economic cycle and interest rates have a significant bearing on the price of securities over lengthy time periods. A recession, for instance, can dramatically widen the price range for most equities as they plunge in price. For example, most technology stocks had wide price ranges between 1998 to 2002, as they soared to lofty levels in the first half of that period and then slumped – many to single-digit prices – in the aftermath of the dotcom bust. Similarly, the 2007-08 financial crisis considerably widened the trading range for equities due to the broad correction that saw most indices plunge over 50% in price. Stock ranges have narrowed significantly since the Great Recession as volatility has reduced during a nine-year bull market. Ranges and Volatility Since price volatility is equivalent to risk, a security’s trading range is a good indicator of risk. A conservative investor prefers securities with smaller price fluctuations compared to securities that are susceptible to significant gyrations. Such an investor may prefer to invest in more stable sectors like utilities, healthcare and telecommunications, rather than in more cyclical (or high-beta) sectors like financials, technology and commodities. Generally speaking, high-beta sectors may have wider ranges than low-beta sectors. Range Support and Resistance A security's range can effectively highlight support and resistance levels. If the bottom of a stock's range has been around $10 on a number of occasions spanning many months or years, then the $10 region would be considered an area of strong support. If the stock breaks below that level (especially on heavy volume), traders interpret it as a bearish signal. Conversely, a breakout above a price that has marked the top of the range on numerous occasions is considered as a breach of resistance and provides a bullish signal. (To learn more, see: How do I Effectively Create a Range-Bound Trading Strategy?)
Rechaka(Recaka, Sanskrit) ::: One of the practices used in the hatha yoga system for the regulation of the breath.The breath is expelled or expired from one of the nostrils while the other nostril is held closed with thefinger, and then the operation isrepeated with the other nostril. These operations, as observed under Kumbhaka, are extremely dangerousto health and mental balance, and cannot be encouraged. Indeed, they should be unequivocallydiscouraged.
Recommended Maximum Contaminant Level (RMCL)::: The maximum level of a contaminant in drinking water at which no known or anticipated adverse affect on human health would occur, and that includes an adequate margin of safety. Recommended levels are non-enforceable health goals.
Records of ancient medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, etc., tell of the temples being used as hospitals, with priest-physicians supported by the state giving every care to the sick who came, both rich and poor. In addition to material means of treatment — many of which we have rediscovered — these devotees of the gods of healing used special incense, prayers, the “temple sleep,” invocations, music, astrology, etc., which we regard as harmless superstition of an earlier day. However, such conditions, intelligently adapted to each case, in making a pure, serene, uplifting atmosphere around the sick person, would invoke the influences of wholeness within and without him. By putting the inner man in tune with his body, his disordered nature-forces manifesting as disease would tend to flow freely in the currents of health. Natural magic is as practical as the unknown alchemy which transmutes our digested daily bread into molecules of our living body.
recover ::: 1. To get back; regain. 2. To find again or obtain the return of (something lost). 3. To regain a normal or usual condition, as of health. recovers, recovered, recovering. *adj. *recovered. 4. Restored, regained something; brought back to its normal state.
recover ::: v. t. --> To cover again.
To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.
To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.
To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of
Recovery from illnesses ::: Care should be taken of the body, certainly, the care that is needed for its good condition, rest, sleep, proper food, sufficient exercise, what is not good is too much preoccupation with it, anxiety, despondency in the illness etc., for these things only favour the prolongation of ill-health or weakness.
recruit ::: v. t. --> To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.
Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.
To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; as, he recruited two regiments; the army was recruited for a campaign; also, to muster; to enlist; as, he recruited
recuperate ::: v. i. --> To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce. ::: v. t. --> To recover; to regain; as, to recuperate the health or strength.
recuperation ::: n.. --> Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength.
reestablish ::: v. t. --> To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reestablish a covenant; to reestablish health.
regimen ::: n. --> Orderly government; system of order; adminisration.
Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation
a systematic course of diet, etc., pursed with a view to improving or preserving the health, or for the purpose of attaining some particular effect, as a reduction of flesh; -- sometimes used synonymously with hygiene.
A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends
Remedial Response ::: Long-term action that stops or substantially reduces a release or threat of a release of hazardous substances that is serious but not an immediate threat to public health.
remedy ::: n. --> That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for the gout.
That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed by for or against, formerly by to.
The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.
Response Action ::: Generic term for actions taken in response to actual or potential health-threatening environmental events such as spills, sudden releases, and asbestos abatement/management problems; A CERCLA-authorized action involving either a short-term removal action or a long-term removal response. This may include but is not limited to: removing hazardous materials from a site to an EPA-approved hazardous waste facility for treatment, containment or treating the waste on-site, identifying and removing the sources of groundwater contamination and halting further migration of contaminants; 3. Any of the following actions taken in school buildings in response to AHERA to reduce the risk of exposure to asbestos
restoration ::: n. --> The act of restoring or bringing back to a former place, station, or condition; the fact of being restored; renewal; reestablishment; as, the restoration of friendship between enemies; the restoration of peace after war.
The state of being restored; recovery of health, strength, etc.; as, restoration from sickness.
That which is restored or renewed.
Risk Analysis::: A detailed examination including risk assessment, risk evaluation, and risk management alternatives, performed to understand the nature of unwanted, negative consequences to human life, health, property, or the environment; an analytical process to provide information regarding undesirable events; the process of quantification of the probabilities and expected consequences for identified risks.
Risk Characterization::: This last step in the risk assessment process characterizes the potential for adverse health effects and evaluates the uncertainty involved.
Risk Communication::: The exchange of information about health or environmental risks among risk assessors and managers, the general public, news media, interest groups, etc.
robust ::: a. --> Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.
Violent; rough; rude.
Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.
rogamaya ::: diseased, unhealthy.
Romanticism was a healthy and necessary influence in reasserting the dignity of nature, in stressing the emotional factor in knowledge, and in emphasizing the concepts of process and evolution. It was an inadequate doctrine, in that it did not clarify the detailed movement of the process it posited, and could offer no positive advice for discovering this, other than to be inspired and intuit it. Romanticism is metaphysical expressionism, and like any expressionistic doctrine it is unable to give any concrete meaning to the concept of causality; it can therefore provide no categories under which to comprehend things, but can only say that things are because they have been expressed, and can be understood only by being re-expressed i.e., only by re-living the experience of their creator.
rouse ::: v. i. & t. --> To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. ::: n. --> A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
ruddy ::: n. --> Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame.
Of a lively flesh color, or the color of the human skin in high health; as, ruddy cheeks or lips. ::: v. t. --> To make ruddy.
ruin ::: n. --> The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes.
That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the
rules over health and longevity, and inspires
Sabazius (Greek) [from sabo a god of health; or sevas reverential awe] A Phrygian or Thracian deity whose worship was connected with that of the Great Mother, Cybele, and of Attis. He was associated with the chthonian deities and his emblem was a serpent. Regularly conducted Mysteries were held, probably similar in nature to the Dionysian Mysteries because the ancient Greeks connected Sabazius with Dionysos, even giving the name to Bacchus (or Dionysos). “Sabasia was a periodical festival with mysteries enacted in honour of some gods, a variant on the Mithraic Mysteries. The whole evolution of the races was performed in them” (SD 2:419n). The Sabazia were revived in Rome during the 2nd century, practiced under the name Sacra Savadia.
saga "jargon" (WPI) A {cuspy} but bogus raving story about N {random} broken people. Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by {Guy Steele} (GLS): Jon L. White (login name JONL) and I (GLS) were office mates at {MIT} for many years. One April, we both flew from Boston to California for a week on research business, to consult face-to-face with some people at {Stanford}, particularly our mutual friend {Richard Gabriel} (RPG). RPG picked us up at the San Francisco airport and drove us back to {Palo Alto} (going {logical} south on route 101, parallel to {El Camino Bignum}). Palo Alto is adjacent to Stanford University and about 40 miles south of San Francisco. We ate at The Good Earth, a "health food" restaurant, very popular, the sort whose milkshakes all contain honey and protein powder. JONL ordered such a shake - the waitress claimed the flavour of the day was "lalaberry". I still have no idea what that might be, but it became a running joke. It was the colour of raspberry, and JONL said it tasted rather bitter. I ate a better tostada there than I have ever had in a Mexican restaurant. After this we went to the local Uncle Gaylord's Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor. They make ice cream fresh daily, in a variety of intriguing flavours. It's a chain, and they have a slogan: "If you don't live near an Uncle Gaylord's - MOVE!" Also, Uncle Gaylord (a real person) wages a constant battle to force big-name ice cream makers to print their ingredients on the package (like air and plastic and other non-natural garbage). JONL and I had first discovered Uncle Gaylord's the previous August, when we had flown to a computer-science conference in {Berkeley}, California, the first time either of us had been on the West Coast. When not in the conference sessions, we had spent our time wandering the length of Telegraph Avenue, which (like Harvard Square in Cambridge) was lined with picturesque street vendors and interesting little shops. On that street we discovered Uncle Gaylord's Berkeley store. The ice cream there was very good. During that August visit JONL went absolutely bananas (so to speak) over one particular flavour, ginger honey. Therefore, after eating at The Good Earth - indeed, after every lunch and dinner and before bed during our April visit --- a trip to Uncle Gaylord's (the one in Palo Alto) was mandatory. We had arrived on a Wednesday, and by Thursday evening we had been there at least four times. Each time, JONL would get ginger honey ice cream, and proclaim to all bystanders that "Ginger was the spice that drove the Europeans mad! That's why they sought a route to the East! They used it to preserve their otherwise off-taste meat." After the third or fourth repetition RPG and I were getting a little tired of this spiel, and began to paraphrase him: "Wow! Ginger! The spice that makes rotten meat taste good!" "Say! Why don't we find some dog that's been run over and sat in the sun for a week and put some *ginger* on it for dinner?!" "Right! With a lalaberry shake!" And so on. This failed to faze JONL; he took it in good humour, as long as we kept returning to Uncle Gaylord's. He loves ginger honey ice cream. Now RPG and his then-wife KBT (Kathy Tracy) were putting us up (putting up with us?) in their home for our visit, so to thank them JONL and I took them out to a nice French restaurant of their choosing. I unadventurously chose the filet mignon, and KBT had je ne sais quoi du jour, but RPG and JONL had lapin (rabbit). (Waitress: "Oui, we have fresh rabbit, fresh today." RPG: "Well, JONL, I guess we won't need any *ginger*!") We finished the meal late, about 11 P.M., which is 2 A.M Boston time, so JONL and I were rather droopy. But it wasn't yet midnight. Off to Uncle Gaylord's! Now the French restaurant was in Redwood City, north of Palo Alto. In leaving Redwood City, we somehow got onto route 101 going north instead of south. JONL and I wouldn't have known the difference had RPG not mentioned it. We still knew very little of the local geography. I did figure out, however, that we were headed in the direction of Berkeley, and half-jokingly suggested that we continue north and go to Uncle Gaylord's in Berkeley. RPG said "Fine!" and we drove on for a while and talked. I was drowsy, and JONL actually dropped off to sleep for 5 minutes. When he awoke, RPG said, "Gee, JONL, you must have slept all the way over the bridge!", referring to the one spanning San Francisco Bay. Just then we came to a sign that said "University Avenue". I mumbled something about working our way over to Telegraph Avenue; RPG said "Right!" and maneuvered some more. Eventually we pulled up in front of an Uncle Gaylord's. Now, I hadn't really been paying attention because I was so sleepy, and I didn't really understand what was happening until RPG let me in on it a few moments later, but I was just alert enough to notice that we had somehow come to the Palo Alto Uncle Gaylord's after all. JONL noticed the resemblance to the Palo Alto store, but hadn't caught on. (The place is lit with red and yellow lights at night, and looks much different from the way it does in daylight.) He said, "This isn't the Uncle Gaylord's I went to in Berkeley! It looked like a barn! But this place looks *just like* the one back in Palo Alto!" RPG deadpanned, "Well, this is the one *I* always come to when I'm in Berkeley. They've got two in San Francisco, too. Remember, they're a chain." JONL accepted this bit of wisdom. And he was not totally ignorant - he knew perfectly well that University Avenue was in Berkeley, not far from Telegraph Avenue. What he didn't know was that there is a completely different University Avenue in Palo Alto. JONL went up to the counter and asked for ginger honey. The guy at the counter asked whether JONL would like to taste it first, evidently their standard procedure with that flavour, as not too many people like it. JONL said, "I'm sure I like it. Just give me a cone." The guy behind the counter insisted that JONL try just a taste first. "Some people think it tastes like soap." JONL insisted, "Look, I *love* ginger. I eat Chinese food. I eat raw ginger roots. I already went through this hassle with the guy back in Palo Alto. I *know* I like that flavour!" At the words "back in Palo Alto" the guy behind the counter got a very strange look on his face, but said nothing. KBT caught his eye and winked. Through my stupor I still hadn't quite grasped what was going on, and thought RPG was rolling on the floor laughing and clutching his stomach just because JONL had launched into his spiel ("makes rotten meat a dish for princes") for the forty-third time. At this point, RPG clued me in fully. RPG, KBT, and I retreated to a table, trying to stifle our chuckles. JONL remained at the counter, talking about ice cream with the guy b.t.c., comparing Uncle Gaylord's to other ice cream shops and generally having a good old time. At length the g.b.t.c. said, "How's the ginger honey?" JONL said, "Fine! I wonder what exactly is in it?" Now Uncle Gaylord publishes all his recipes and even teaches classes on how to make his ice cream at home. So the g.b.t.c. got out the recipe, and he and JONL pored over it for a while. But the g.b.t.c. could contain his curiosity no longer, and asked again, "You really like that stuff, huh?" JONL said, "Yeah, I've been eating it constantly back in Palo Alto for the past two days. In fact, I think this batch is about as good as the cones I got back in Palo Alto!" G.b.t.c. looked him straight in the eye and said, "You're *in* Palo Alto!" JONL turned slowly around, and saw the three of us collapse in a fit of giggles. He clapped a hand to his forehead and exclaimed, "I've been hacked!" [My spies on the West Coast inform me that there is a close relative of the raspberry found out there called an "ollalieberry" - ESR] [Ironic footnote: it appears that the {meme} about ginger vs. rotting meat may be an urban legend. It's not borne out by an examination of mediaeval recipes or period purchase records for spices, and appears full-blown in the works of Samuel Pegge, a gourmand and notorious flake case who originated numerous food myths. - ESR] [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-08)
sake ::: n. --> Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive; reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly in such phrases as, for the sake of, for his sake, for man&
salubrious ::: a. --> Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air, water, or climate.
salubrity ::: n. --> The quality of being salubrious; favorableness to the preservation of health; salubriousness; wholesomeness; healthfulness; as, the salubrity of the air, of a country, or a climate.
salutary ::: a. --> Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.
Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.
salutiferous ::: a. --> Bringing health; healthy; salutary; beneficial; as, salutiferous air.
sanatory ::: a. --> Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative.
sane ::: a. --> Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.
Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one&
sanitarian ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary. ::: n. --> An advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures.
sanitarium ::: n. --> A health station or retreat; a sanatorium.
sanitary ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory.
sanitation ::: n. --> The act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary measures; hygiene.
sanity ::: n. --> The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.
scavenger ::: v. --> A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health.
Selective Dissemination of Information "library" (SDI) (From Library Science) SDI is a current awareness system which alerts you to the latest publications in your specified field(s) of interest. A user registers at such a system with keywords representing his or her fields of interest, called a search profile. When new publications matching the search profile appear, the system informs the user of them instantly, periodically or upon request. Some systems may also be able to inform the user if changes in already notified publications occur. {Health Science Library SDI (http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/sdi.html)}. {FIZ Karlsruhe Scientific Service Institution (http://fiz-karlsruhe.de/mc-sdi.html)}. (1997-03-10)
shatter ::: 1. To break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow; smash. 2. To impair or destroy (health, nerves, etc.). 3. To weaken, destroy, or refute (ideas, opinions, etc.). 4. To damage, as by breaking or crushing. shattered, shatterer.
sick ::: superl. --> Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.
Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.
Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
Siloam, The Sleep of [from Hebrew the verbal root shalam wholeness, completion, perfectness, peace, health] Used by one of the highest schools of initiates in Asia Minor, Syria, and upper Egypt for one of the processes of initiation. While the candidate was plunged in deep sleep, his spiritual ego was enabled to confabulate with the gods, descend into Hades, or perform works of divinely spiritual character. When the neophyte begins the holy sleep of Siloam, he leaves the body, and his consciousness enters into the river of Lethe, the pools of quiet, where the complete work or great work of inner understanding takes place. After this he is rendered whole or perfect, is completed and is safe, and is the master of the peace and quiet of inner unity — masterhood. The same holy event has been known in all times and among all peoples under various names.
Simply ultimate: That to which all things are actually or virtually referred, -- and which itself is ordered to nothing further, as God. A relatively ultimate end (finis secundum quid ultimus): That which terminates some seiies of acts, in which it is intended ultimately and in itself, but nevertheless can be referrcd to another end, as health is the end of the art of medicine, but nevertheless it can be ordered to another end, e.g. to working. -- H.G.
So strongly is this the case, that even today in theosophical occult studies, drug taking of any kind is strictly forbidden, including alcohol, for alcohol is a drug, a product of natural decay and decomposition, and while less spectacular and violent as a rule than drugs such as opium and its derivatives, it is far more easily procurable and is therefore more specifically pointed to as objectionable. The idea of the occult student is to have the body absolutely normal, healthy, clean, and functioning in the smoothness of health, so that even overeating is seen to be a harmful thing, because it clogs the body, dulls the mind, and could even actually lead to physical disability.
soteriology ::: n. --> A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.
The doctrine of salvation by Jesus Christ.
spontaneity ::: n. --> The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force.
The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or cheked by the environment.
The tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigor and
statistics ::: n. --> The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state.
Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of
strong ::: superl. --> Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.
Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.
Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.
Svasti (Sanskrit) Svasti Well, happily; a salutation meaning, may it be well with thee! Hail! So be it! Adieu! Amen! Also a noun meaning success, prosperity, fortune, health; a goddess so personified. Any particular auspicious object, supposed to denote good luck, is called svastika, among which is the familiar cross to which this name is given.
syntactic salt ::: The opposite of syntactic sugar, a feature designed to make it harder to write bad code. Specifically, syntactic salt is a hoop the programmer must jump in that it tends to raise hackers' blood pressures in an unhealthy way. Compare candygrammar.[Jargon File]
syntactic salt The opposite of {syntactic sugar}, a feature designed to make it harder to write bad code. Specifically, syntactic salt is a hoop the programmer must jump through just to prove that he knows what's going on, rather than to express a program action. Some programmers consider required type declarations to be syntactic salt. A requirement to write "end if", "end while", "end do", etc. to terminate the last block controlled by a control construct (as opposed to just "end") would definitely be syntactic salt. Syntactic salt is like the real thing in that it tends to raise hackers' blood pressures in an unhealthy way. Compare {candygrammar}. [{Jargon File}]
Technically_strong_market ::: reflects healthy signals or positive data points from money flow or technical analysis. Common indicators include advance/decline line (A/D), Arms Index (TRIN) and moving averages.
Terminal Oriented Real Time Operating System "operating system" (TORTOS) An {operating system} developed from {MVT} at Health Sciences Computing, UCLA by Dr. Patrica Britt from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s. Dr. Britt was a senior scientist at {IBM}, who become the Assistant Director of HSCF. TORTOS pre-dated {TSO} and provided {batch}, {real-time} and {time sharing} on an {IBM 360}/91. (2004-07-02)
Terminal Oriented Real Time Operating System ::: (operating system) (TORTOS) An operating system developed from MVT at Health Sciences Computing, UCLA by Dr. Patrica Britt from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s.Dr. Britt was a senior scientist at IBM, who become the Assistant Director of HSCF.TORTOS pre-dated TSO and provided batch, real-time and time sharing on an IBM 360/91.(2004-07-02)
TESTS. ::: The idea of tests is not a healthy idea and ou^t not to be pushed too far. Tests are applied not by the Divine but by the forces of the lower planes — mental, vital, physical
the angel of science, health, prayer, and love.
::: "The psycho-analysis of Freud is the last thing that one should associate with yoga. It takes up a certain part, the darkest, the most perilous, the unhealthiest part of the nature, the lower vital subconscious layer, isolates some of its most morbid phenomena and attributes to it and them an action out of all proportion to its true role in the nature. Modern psychology is an infant science, at once rash, fumbling and crude. As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind — to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of Nature in its narrow terms — runs riot here. Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood and it can have a nasty influence and tend to make the mind and vital more and not less fundamentally impure than before.
“The psycho-analysis of Freud is the last thing that one should associate with yoga. It takes up a certain part, the darkest, the most perilous, the unhealthiest part of the nature, the lower vital subconscious layer, isolates some of its most morbid phenomena and attributes to it and them an action out of all proportion to its true role in the nature. Modern psychology is an infant science, at once rash, fumbling and crude. As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind—to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of Nature in its narrow terms—runs riot here. Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood and it can have a nasty influence and tend to make the mind and vital more and not less fundamentally impure than before.
The Rajayogic Pranayama purifies and clears- theaiervous system ; it enables us to circulate the vital energy equally through the body and direct it also where we will nccarding to need, and thus maintain a perfect health and soundness of the body and the vital being ; it gives us control of all the five habitual opera- tions of the vital energy in the system and at the same time breaks down the habitual divisions by which only the ordinary mechanical processes of the vitality arc possible (o the norma! life. It opens entirely the six centres of the psycho-physical system and brings Into (he waking consciousness the power of the awakened Shakti and the light of the unveiled Furusba on each of the as^nding planes. Cbupled with (be use of the mantra it brings the ^vine energy into the body and prepares for and facilitates that concentration in Samadbi which is the crown of the Rajayogic method.
There is a mystic science attached to the caduceus, the classical emblem of medicine. To the priest-physicians in the temples, this symbol was sacred not only to the god of wisdom and healing, but stood for profound cosmic truths, knowledge of which was held in common by all initiates. It symbolized the tree of life and being. Cosmically this symbol stood for the concealed root or origin of universal duality which manifests as positive and negative, good and evil, subjective and objective, light and darkness, male and female, health and sickness, life and death.
The Roman Catholic ritual of the exorcism of salt, promulgated in 1851 and 1852 under the sanction of Cardinal Engelbert, Archbishop of Malines, and of the Archbishop of Paris, runs: “The Priest blesses the salt and says: ‘Creature of Salt, I exorcise thee in the name of the living God . . . become the health of the soul and of the body. Everywhere where thou art thrown may the unclean spirit be put to flight’ ” (IU 2:85). A Qabbalistic version is similar.
“The sacredness of the cycle of 4320, with additional cyphers, lies in the fact that the figures which compose it, taken separately or joined in various combinations, are each and all symbolical of the greatest mysteries in Nature. Indeed, whether one takes the 4 separately, or the 3 by itself, or the two together making 7, or again the three added together and yielding 9, all these numbers have their application in the most sacred and occult things, and record the workings of Nature in her eternally periodical phenomena. They are never erring, perpetually recurring numbers, unveiling, to him who studies the secrets of Nature, a truly divine System, an intelligent plan in Cosmogony, which results in natural cosmic divisions of times, seasons, invisible influences, astronomical phenomena, with their action and reaction on terrestrial and even moral nature; on birth, death, and growth, on health and disease. All these natural events are based and depend upon cyclical processes in the Kosmos itself, producing periodic agencies which, acting from without, affect the Earth and all that lives and breathes on it, from one end to the other of any Manvantara. Causes and effects are esoteric, exoteric, and endexoteric, so to say” (SD 2:73-4).
The weakness of Hatha Yoga is that its laborious and difficult processes make so great a demand on the time and energy and impose so complete a severance from the ordinary life of men that the utilisation of its results for the life of the world becomes either impracticable or is extraordinarily restricted. The physical results, increased vitality, prolonged youth, health, longevity are of small avail if they must be held by us as misers of ourselves apart from the common life for their own sake, not utilised, not thrown into the common sura of the world’s activity. Hatha
Threshold Level ::: Time-weighted average pollutant concentration values, exposure beyond which is likely to adversely affect human health.
toast ::: v. t. --> To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady. ::: v.
tonicity ::: n. --> The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.
Toshiba Corporation "company" A Japanese technology manufacturer with 364 subsidiaries worldwide. Toshiba makes and sells electronics for home, office, industry and health care including information and communication systems, electronic components, heavy electrical apparatus, consumer products and medical diagnostic imaging equipment. In FY 2003-4, Toshiba employed 161,286 people. {Toshiba Home (http://toshiba.co.jp/)}. (2005-01-19)
Toxicity Profile ::: An examination, summary, and interpretation of a hazardous substance to determine levels of exposure and associated health effects. See our toxicity profiles.
Toxic Substance::: A chemical or mixture that may present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment.
transplantation ::: n. --> The act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal.
The removal of tissues from a healthy part, and the insertion of them in another place where there is a lesion; as, the transplantation of tissues in autoplasty.
The removal of a bodily organ or of tissues from one person, and the insertion of them into another person to replace a damaged organ or tissue; as, the transplantation of a heart, kidney, or
travel ::: v. i. --> To labor; to travail.
To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.
To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.
To pass; to go; to move.
unfriendly ::: a. --> Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor.
Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as, weather unfriendly to health.
unhealth ::: n. --> Unsoundness; disease.
University of East London ::: (body, education) (UEL) A UK University with six academic Faculties: Design and The Built Environment, East London Business School, Institute Of Health and Rehabilitation, Faculty Of Science, Social Sciences and Technology. . (1994-11-29)
University of East London "body, education" (UEL) A UK University with six academic Faculties: Design and The Built Environment, East London Business School, Institute Of Health and Rehabilitation, Faculty Of Science, Social Sciences and Technology. {(http://uel.ac.uk/)}. (1994-11-29)
unwell ::: a. --> Not well; indisposed; not in good health; somewhat ill; ailing.
Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant.
valetudinarian ::: a. --> Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm. ::: n. --> A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health.
valetudinarianism ::: n. --> The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity.
Vedas, the drink and the plant refer to the same entity, and is perceived as a giver of immortality, a healthy and long life, offspring, happiness, courage, strength, victory over enemies, wisdom, understanding and creativity
venom ::: n. --> Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging.
Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer.
To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
Visual Display Unit ::: (hardware) (VDU, or video terminal, video display terminal, VDT, display terminal) A device incorporating a cathode ray tube (CRT) display, a electronics which store the received data and convert it into electrical waveforms to drive the CRT.VDUs fall into two categories: dumb terminals and intelligent terminals (sometimes called programmable terminals).Early VDUs could only display characters in a single preset font, and these were confined to being layed out in a rectangular grid, reproducing the functionality of the paper-based teletypes they were designed to replace.Later models added graphics facilities but were still driven via serial communications, typically with several VDUs attached to a single multi-user computer. This contrasts with the much faster single bitmap displays integrated into most modern single-user personal computers and workstations.The term Display Screen Equipment (DSE) is used almost exclusively in connection with the health and safety issues concerning VDUs. .(2002-11-09)
Visual Display Unit "hardware" (VDU, or "video terminal", "video display terminal", VDT, "display terminal") A device incorporating a {cathode ray tube} (CRT) display, a keyboard and a {serial port}. A VDU usually also includes its own display electronics which store the received data and convert it into electrical waveforms to drive the CRT. VDUs fall into two categories: {dumb terminals} and {intelligent terminals} (sometimes called "programmable terminals"). Early VDUs could only display characters in a single preset {font}, and these were confined to being layed out in a rectangular grid, reproducing the functionality of the paper-based {teletypes} they were designed to replace. Later models added graphics facilities but were still driven via serial communications, typically with several VDUs attached to a single multi-user computer. This contrasts with the much faster single {bitmap displays} integrated into most modern single-user {personal computers} and {workstations}. The term "Display Screen Equipment" (DSE) is used almost exclusively in connection with the health and safety issues concerning VDUs. {Working with VDUs - UK Heath and Safety Executive (http://hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf)}. (2002-11-09)
Vitality The jiva or life-force which manifests through the different principles of the human septenary being, as well as through the multiform hierarchies of nature. It animates the cosmic entity in which we live as vital monadic units and in man manifests as the pranas: “there is a regular circulation of the vital fluid throughout our [solar] system, of which the Sun is the heart — the same as the circulation of the blood in the human body . . .” (SD 1:541). The lowest principle of cosmic jiva is diffused through all nature and, among its innumerable activities on all the cosmic planes, on our plane produces all living beings and entities — man, beast, plant, mineral, and the three kingdoms of the elemental world. “The animal tissues only absorb it according to their more or less morbid or healthy state,” matter being the necessary vehicle for its manifestation on this plane (SD 1:537). On cosmic planes of consciousness, the corresponding aspects of jiva are the vehicles of cosmic thought or ideation which manifest more or less consciously in entities, and automatically as the laws of nature. Likewise, in the human being the psychoelectric field of life-currents, vital fluids, or pranas provides the vehicles or avenues for transmitting his thought, feeling, emotion, and instincts. The tension of this life principle — in one sense the liquor vitae of Paracelsus — may be too high or too low, owing to the nervous changes in the matter it invests. Thus, an equilibrium of the vital currents of the body means a state of health, as disturbed or disordered conditions make for disease.
vitals ::: n. pl. --> Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.
Fig.: The part essential to the life or health of anything; as, the vitals of a state.
Vyana (Sanskrit) Vyāna [from vi separation + the verbal root an to breathe, blow] One of the pranas or vital life-currents in the human or animal body, which vitalize, build, and sustain the manifested vehicle, being the vital “air” which is separative or disintegrative. Hence it is connected with the digestion and other functions implying separative or disintegrative action in the health of the body, and thus operates to maintain the body’s equilibrium. Vyana is said to have its physical action throughout the body. See also UDANA
welfare ::: n. --> Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.
who is the spirit of health and vegetation, as well
whole ::: a. --> Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as, the whole earth; the whole solar system; the whole army; the whole nation.
Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; not broken or fractured; unimpaired; uninjured; integral; as, a whole orange; the egg is whole; the vessel is whole.
Possessing, or being in a state of, heath and soundness; healthy; sound; well.
wholesome ::: superl. --> Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.
Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws.
Sound; healthy.
worse ::: compar. --> Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense. ::: n. --> Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the
Yoga(Sanskrit) ::: Literally "union," "conjunction," etc. In India it is the technical name for one of the sixDarsanas or schools of philosophy, and its foundation is ascribed to the sage Patanjali. The name Yogaitself describes the objective of this school, the attaining of union or at-one-ness with the divine-spiritualessence within a man. The yoga practices when properly understood through the instructions of genuineteachers -- who, by the way, never announce themselves as public lecturers or through books oradvertisements -- are supposed to induce certain ecstatic states leading to a clear perception of universaltruths, and the highest of these states is called samadhi.There are a number of minor forms of yoga practice and training such as the karma yoga, hatha yoga,bhakti yoga, raja yoga, jnana yoga, etc. Similar religious aspirations or practices likewise exist inOccidental countries, as, for instance, what is called salvation by works, somewhat equivalent to theHindu karma yoga or, again, salvation by faith -- or love, somewhat similar to the Hindu bhakti yoga;while both Orient and Occident have, each one, its various forms of ascetic practices which may begrouped under the term hatha yoga.No system of yoga should ever be practiced unless under the direct teaching of one who knows thedangers of meddling with the psychomental apparatus of the human constitution, for dangers lurk atevery step, and the meddler in these things is likely to bring disaster upon himself, both in matters ofhealth and as regards sane mental equilibrium. The higher branches of yoga, however, such as the rajayoga and jnana yoga, implying strict spiritual and intellectual discipline combined with a fervid love forall beings, are perfectly safe. It is, however, the ascetic practices, etc., and the teachings that go withthem, wherein lies the danger to the unwary, and they should be carefully avoided.
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1:He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything." ~ Thomas Carlyle, #KEYS
2:Child, your body is also My body. I suffer if you do not keep good health. ~ Sri Sarada Devi, #KEYS
3:It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #KEYS
4:As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. ~ G K Chesterton, Orthodoxy, #KEYS
5:The absolute immunity can only come with the supramental change. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Illness and Health, #KEYS
6:Oh lord, I do not want riches, fame, health, happiness or anything else. Grant that I may have pure Bhakti for thy lotus feet! ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
7:In a supramentalised body immunity from illness would be automatic, inherent in its new nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Illness and Health, #KEYS
8:The delight of eating is contrary to the health of the body unless a rational temperance resists the pleasure and withdraws from its desire what is going to be a burden. ~ Leo the Great, #KEYS
9:Youth, beauty, life, riches, health, friends are things that pass; let not the wise man attach himself at all to these. ~ Mahabharata, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
10:Large abiding realisations in Yoga do not usually come in trance but by a persistent waking sadhana. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Illness and Health, #KEYS
11:Liberty is the first requisite for the sound health and vigorous life of a nation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I, Shall India be Free? - The Loyalist Gospel, #KEYS
12:Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
~ Benjamin Disraeli,#KEYS
13:The holiness of justice is the health of the soul; it is more precious than heaps ol gold and silver. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ecclesiasucus, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
14:Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." ~ Jim Rohn, #KEYS
15:In this world everything depends upon consciousness and its movements, even the things that seem not to do so. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Illness and Health, #KEYS
16:The art of healing and the doctor are causes of health, but the art is prior and the doctor is posterior ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (On the Principles of Nature, c. 5)., #KEYS
17:Pain and discomfort come from a physical consciousness not forceful enough to determine its own reaction to things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Illness and Health, #KEYS
18:Pain is caused because the physical consciousness in the Ignorance is too limited to bear the touches that come upon it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Illness and Health, #KEYS
19:And we cannot achieve this health except through the physician of our souls, Jesus Christ, 'who shall save His people from their sins' ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Mt. 1:21)(ScG 4.72)., #KEYS
20:Why think merely of your disease and ill health? Know always, and under all circumstances, 'I belong to the Lord. The Lord is my eternal treasure; He is the one Reality, the source of my well-being.' ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
21:Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases our own health and happiness." ~ Zoroaster, (c. 628~ c. 551), Iranian religious reformer and prophet, traditionally regarded as the founder of Zoroastrianism, Wikipedia., #KEYS
22:Water shall cleanse me from fear, Fire will purify my doubts, And the earth shall nourish me to health. All is well, all is well, all is well." ~ Zsuzanna E. Budapest, (b.1940), Hungarian author, living in U.S., writes about feminist spirituality., #KEYS
23:Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others." ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky M.D. Author of "Forgiveness: The Greatest Healer of All,", (1999). is an internationally recognized authority in the fields of psychiatry, health, business, and education., #KEYS
24:The great malady of the soul is error which brings in its train all evils without any good. Intelligence combats it and brings back the soul to good as the physician restores the body to health. ~ id, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
25:We beg you, Lord, to be our help and our support. Free us from our troubles; take pity on the lowly; raise up those who have fallen; give help to the poor, health to the sick, and bring home those who have wandered away. ~ Clement I to the Corinthians, #KEYS
26:You will end by the discovery that the best means, of health is to watch over the good health of others, and that the surest way to feel happy is to watch over the happiness of others. ~ Vivenkananda, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
27:Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions." ~ Gerald Jampolsky, (b. 1925), has published in the fields of psychiatry and health. See, #KEYS
28:[Sophrosune, self-control] is an embrace of simplicity…. Our understanding of happiness alters. We actively desire the health of the ecological communities to which we belong. We want to do what it takes to be at home. ~ Jan Zwicky, A Ship from Delos, #KEYS
29:As all religions and philosophies point to the Supreme but each in a different direction, so all medical fashions are ways to health—though they don't always reach it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Doctors and Medicines, #KEYS
30:he intelligence uncovers its light to the souls it governs and battles against their tendencies, even as a good physician uses fire and steel to combat the maladies of the body and recall it to health. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
31:Without continence nothing great can be achieved. Without absolute continence, you can neither have perfect health, nor be able to do good to others, or attain realization. Continence is such a great power, so noble, so necessary for all. ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA, #KEYS
32:Consciousness is the stone that creates the waves in a sea of nothing." ~ Richard Gerber MD, iauthor of the 1988 book, "Vibrational Medicine: New Choices for Healing Ourselves." See: https://spaceandmotion.com/health/richard-gerber-medical-doctor-vibrational-healing.htm, #KEYS
33:Love cannot be a means to any end. Love does not promise success, power, achievement, health, recovery, satisfaction, peace of mind, fulfillment, or any other prizes. Love is an end in itself, a beginning in itself. Love exists only for love." ~ Gerald G. May, (1940 - 2005)., #KEYS
34:Everything is backwards, everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality & governments destroy freedom." ~ Michael Ellner(1949- 2018), #KEYS
35:Man was created to praise, honor, and serve God. We therefore no more prefer health to sickness, riches to poverty, honor to disdain, long life to short, but desire and choose only that which more surely conduces toward the end for which we were created. ~ Saint Ignatius of Loyola, #KEYS
36:History instructs us, the law teaches, prophecy foretells, correction punishes, morality persuades; but the book of psalms goes further. It is medicine for our spiritual health. Whoever reads it will find in it a medicine to cure the wounds caused by his own passions. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
37:If you could take the bliss and happiness that comes from meditation, and put it into a bottle, it would be the most popular drink in the world. Of course, this is not possible. But the good news is that it is free, it is good for your health, and it is always available. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche, #KEYS
38:This is how you should pray: "Lord, if you see this to be for my good, if you judge it to be profitable for me, give me this thing to use for your honor; but if you foresee it will do me harm, impair the health of my soul, take away from me the desire for such a thing." ~ Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, #KEYS
39:Anyone who masters these techniques fully has achieved a tremendous power over himself more valuable than health, love, fame, or riches. He has set himself free from the effects of the world; nothing can touch him unless he wills it. As it has been said, the sage who knows how can live comfortably in hell.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS
40:Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #KEYS
41:We cannot counteract the harm done by mental faith in the need for drugs by any external measures. Only by escaping from the mental prison and emerging consciously into the light of the spirit, by a conscious union with the Divine, can we enable Him to give back to us the balance and health we have lost.The supramental transformation is the only true remedy.
~ The Mother, On Thoughts And Aphorisms,#KEYS
42:It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be. ~ Abraham Maslow, #KEYS
43:It is important to preserve the body's strength and health, for it is our best instrument. Take care that it is strong and healthy, you possess no better instrument. Imagine that it is as strong as steel and that thanks to it you travel over this ocean of life. The weak will never attain to liberation, put off all weakness, tell your body that it is robust, your intelligence that it is strong, have in yourself a boundless faith and hope ~ Vivekananda, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
44:The Japanese have a proverb: "The gods only laugh when men pray to them for wealth." The boon bestowed on the worshiper is always scaled to his stature and to the nature of his dominant desire: the boon is simply a symbol of life energy stepped down to the requirements of a certain specific case. The irony, of course, lies in the fact that, whereas the hero who has won the favor of the god may beg for the boon of perfect illumination, what he generally seeks are longer years to live, weapons with which to slay his neighbor, or the health of his child. ~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Ultimate Boon, #KEYS
45:The Magician should devise for himself a definite technique for destroying 'evil.' The essence of such a practice will consist in training the mind and the body to confront things which cause fear, pain, disgust, shame and the like. He must learn to endure them, then to become indifferent to them, then to analyze them until they give pleasure and instruction, and finally to appreciate them for their own sake, as aspects of Truth. When this has been done, he should abandon them, if they are really harmful in relation to health and comfort.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, Magick, APPENDIX VI: A FEW PRINCIPAL RITUALS, [311-312],#KEYS
46:In the Middle Ages, a favorite image that occurs in many, many contexts is the wheel of fortune. There's the hub of the wheel, and there is the revolving rim of the wheel. For example, if you are attached to the rim of the wheel of fortune, you will be either above going down or at the bottom coming up. But if you are at the hub, you are in the same place all the time. That is the sense of the marriage vow~I take you in health or sickness, in wealth or poverty: going up or going down. But I take you as my center, and you are my bliss, not the wealth that you might bring me, not the social prestige, but you. That is following your bliss. ~ Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, with Bill Moyers, #KEYS
47:Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord? Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him and that thou hide not thyself from thine own kind? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning and thy health shall spring forth speedily. ~ Isaiah, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
48:I am not this, not that, neti, neti :::
We say then to the mind This is a working of Prakriti, this is neither thyself nor myself; stand back from it. We shall find, if we try, that the mind has this power of detachment and can stand back from the body not only in idea, but in act and as it were physically or rather vitally. This detachment of the mind must be strengthened by a certain attitude of indifference to the things of the body; we must not care essentially about its sleep or its waking, its movement or its rest, its pain or its pleasure, its health or ill-health, its vigour or its fatigue, its comfort or its discomfort, or what it eats or drinks.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Release from Subjection to the Body, 344,#KEYS
49:An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. And that means, when it comes to deciding which approaches, methodologies, epistemologies, or ways or knowing are "correct" the answer can only be, "All of them." That is, all of the numerous practices or paradigms of human inquiry - including physics, chemistry, hermeneutics, collaborative inquiry, meditation, neuroscience, vision quest, phenomenology, structuralism, subtle energy research, systems theory, shamanic voyaging, chaos theory, developmental psychology-all of those modes of inquiry have an important piece of the overall puzzle of a total existence that includes, among other many things, health and illness, doctors and patients, sickness and healing. ~ Ken Wilber, #KEYS
50:I have said that from a young age children should be taught to respect good health, physical strength and balance. The great importance of beauty must also be emphasised. A young child should aspire for beauty, not for the sake of pleasing others or winning their admiration, but for the love of beauty itself; for beauty is the ideal which all physical life must realise. Every human being has the possibility of establishing harmony among the different parts of his body and in the various movements of the body in action. Every human body that undergoes a rational method of culture from the very beginning of its existence can realise its own harmony and thus become fit to manifest beauty. When we speak of the other aspects of an integral education, we shall see what inner conditions are to be fulfilled so that this beauty can one day be manifested. ~ The Mother, On Education, Physical Education, #KEYS
51:But if somewhere in your being - either in your body or even in your vital or mind, either in several parts or even in a single one - there is an incapacity to receive the descending Force, this acts like a grain of sand in a machine. You know, a fine machine working quite well with everything going all right, and you put into it just a little sand (nothing much, only a grain of sand), suddenly everything is damaged and the machine stops. Well, just a little lack of receptivity somewhere, something that is unable to receive the Force, that is completely shut up (when one looks at it, it becomes as it were a little dark spot somewhere, a tiny thing hard as a stone: the Force cannot enter into it, it refuses to receive it - either it cannot or it will not) and immediately that produces a great imbalance; and this thing that was moving upward, that was blooming so wonderfully, finds itself sick, and sometimes just when you were in the normal equilibrium; you were in good health, everything was going on well, you had nothing to complain about. One day when you grasped a new idea, received a new impulse, when you had a great aspiration and received a great force and had a marvellous experience, a beautiful experience opening to you inner doors, giving you a knowledge you did not have before; then you were sure that everything was going to be all right.... The next day, you are taken ill. So you say: "Still that? It is impossible! That should not happen." But it was quite simply what I have just said: a grain of sand. There was something that could not receive; immediately it brings about a disequilibrium. Even though very small it is enough, and you fall ill.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 175,#KEYS
52:indifference to things of the body :::
This detachment of the mind must be strengthened by a certain attitude of indifference to the things of the body; we must not care essentially about its sleep or its waking, its movement or its rest, its pain or its pleasure, its health or ill-health, its vigour or its fatigue, its comfort or its discomfort, or what it eats or drinks. This does not mean that we shall not keep the body in right order so far as we can; we have not to fall into violent asceticisms or a positive neglect of the physical frame. But we have not either to be affected in mind by hunger or thirst or discomfort or ill-health or attach the importance which the physical and vital man attaches to the things of the body, or indeed any but a quite subordinate and purely instrumental importance. Nor must this instrumental importance be allowed to assume the proportions of a necessity; we must not for instance imagine that the purity of the mind depends on the things we eat or drink, although during a certain stage restrictions in eating and drinking are useful to our inner progress; nor on the other hand must we continue to think that the dependence of the mind or even of the life on food and drink is anything more than a habit, a customary relation which Nature has set up between these principles. As a matter of fact the food we take can be reduced by contrary habit and new relation to a minimum without the mental or vital vigour being in any way reduced; even on the contrary with a judicious development they can be trained to a greater potentiality of vigour by learning to rely on the secret fountains of mental and vital energy with which they are connected more than upon the minor aid of physical aliments. This aspect of self-discipline is however more important in the Yoga of self-perfection than here; for our present purpose the important point is the renunciation by the mind of attachment to or dependence on the things of the body.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Release from Subjection to the Body,#KEYS
53:Accumulating Prostrations
Why Prostrate at All?
Why fling yourself full-length on an often filthy floor, then get up and do it again hundreds of thousands of times?
Prostrations are a very immediate method for taking refuge and one of the best available for destroying pride. They are an outer gesture of surrender to the truth of dharma, and an expression of our intention to give up and expose our pride.
So, as we take refuge, we prostrate to demonstrate our complete surrender by throwing ourselves at the feet of our guru and pressing the five points of our body — forehead, hands and knees — to the floor as many times as we can.
(In the Tibetan tradition there are two ways of doing prostrations: one is the full-length and the other the half-length prostration, and we usually accumulate the full-length version.)
Prostrations are said to bring a number of benefits, such as being reborn with an attractive appearance, or our words carry weight and are valued, or our influence over friends and colleagues is positive, or that we are able to manage those who work for us.
It is said that practitioners who accumulate prostrations will one day keep company with sublime beings and as a result become majestic, wealthy, attain a higher rebirth and eventually attain liberation.
For worldly beings, though, to contemplate all the spiritual benefits of prostrations and the amount of merit they accumulate is not necessarily the most effective way of motivating ourselves. The fact that prostrations are good for our health, on the other hand, is often just the incentive we need to get started.
It's true, doing prostrations for the sake of taking healthy exercise is a worldly motivation, but not one I would ever discourage.
In these degenerate times, absolutely anything that will inspire you to practise dharma has some value, so please go ahead and start your prostrations for the sake of the exercise. If you do, not only will you save money on your gym membership, you will build up muscle and a great deal of merit.
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, Not for Happiness - A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practises, Shambhala Publications,#KEYS
54:So then let the Adept set this sigil upon all the Words he hath writ in the book of the Works of his Will. And let him then end all, saying: Such are the Words!2 For by this he maketh proclamation before all them that be about his Circle that these Words are true and puissant, binding what he would bind, and loosing what he would loose. Let the Adept perform this ritual right, perfect in every part thereof, once daily for one moon, then twice, at dawn and dusk, for two moons; next thrice, noon added, for three moons; afterwards, midnight making up his course, for four moons four times every day. Then let the Eleventh Moon be consecrated wholly to this Work; let him be instant in constant ardour, dismissing all but his sheer needs to eat and sleep.3 For know that the true Formula4 whose virtue sufficed the Beast in this Attainment, was thus:
INVOKE OFTEN
So may all men come at last to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel: thus sayeth The Beast, and prayeth his own Angel that this Book be as a burning Lamp, and as a living Spring, for Light and Life to them that read therein.
1. There is an alternative spelling, TzBA-F, where the Root, "an Host," has the value of 93. The Practicus should revise this Ritual throughout in the Light of his personal researches in the Qabalah, and make it his own peculiar property. The spelling here suggested implies that he who utters the Word affirms his allegiance to the symbols 93 and 6; that he is a warrior in the army of Will, and of the Sun. 93 is also the number of AIWAZ and 6 of The Beast.
2. The consonants of LOGOS, "Word," add (Hebrew values) to 93 [reading the Sigma as Samekh = 60; reading it as Shin = 300 gives 333], and ΕΠΗ, "Words" (whence "Epic") has also that value; ΕΙ∆Ε ΤΑ ΕΠΗ might be the phrase here intended; its number is 418. This would then assert the accomplishment of the Great Work; this is the natural conclusion of the Ritual. Cf. CCXX, III, 75.
3. These needs are modified during the process of Initiation both as to quantity and quality. One should not become anxious about one's phyiscal or mental health on à priori grounds, but pay attention only to indubitable symptoms of distress should such arise. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber Samekh,#KEYS
55:complexity of the human constitution :::
There is another direction in which the ordinary practice of Yoga arrives at a helpful but narrowing simplification which is denied to the Sadhaka of the integral aim. The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being, the stimulating but also embarrassing multiplicity of our personality, the rich endless confusion of Nature. To the ordinary man who lives upon his own waking surface, ignorant of the self's depths and vastnesses behind the veil, his psychological existence is fairly simple. A small but clamorous company of desires, some imperative intellectual and aesthetic cravings, some tastes, a few ruling or prominent ideas amid a great current of unconnected or ill-connected and mostly trivial thoughts, a number of more or less imperative vital needs, alternations of physical health and disease, a scattered and inconsequent succession of joys and griefs, frequent minor disturbances and vicissitudes and rarer strong searchings and upheavals of mind or body, and through it all Nature, partly with the aid of his thought and will, partly without or in spite of it, arranging these things in some rough practical fashion, some tolerable disorderly order, -- this is the material of his existence. The average human being even now is in his inward existence as crude and undeveloped as was the bygone primitive man in his outward life. But as soon as we go deep within ourselves, -- and Yoga means a plunge into all the multiple profundities of' the soul, -- we find ourselves subjectively, as man in his growth has found himself objectively, surrounded by a whole complex world which we have to know and to conquer.
The most disconcerting discovery is to find that every part of us -- intellect, will, sense-mind, nervous or desire self, the heart, the body-has each, as it were, its own complex individuality and natural formation independent of the rest; it neither agrees with itself nor with the others nor with the representative ego which is the shadow cast by some central and centralising self on our superficial ignorance. We find that we are composed not of one but many personalities and each has its own demands and differing nature. Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, 74-75,#KEYS
56:
When one is bored, Mother, does that mean one does not progress?
At that time, yes, certainly without a doubt; not only does one not progress, but one misses an opportunity for progressing. There was a concurrence of circumstances which seemed to you dull, boring, stupid and you were in their midst; well, if you get bored, it means that you yourself are as boring as the circumstances! And that is a clear proof that you are simply not in a state of progress. There is nothing more contrary to the very reason of existence than this passing wave of boredom. If you make a little effort within yourself at that time, if you tell yourself: "Wait a bit, what is it that I should learn? What does all that bring to me so that I may learn something? What progress should I make in overcoming myself? What is the weakness that I must overcome? What is the inertia that I must conquer?" If you say that to yourself, you will see the next minute you are no longer bored. You will immediately get interested and you will make progress! This is a commonplace of consciousness.
And then, you know, most people when they get bored, instead of trying to rise a step higher, descend a step lower, they become still worse than what they were, and they do all the stupid things that others do, go in for all the vulgarities, all the meannesses, everything, in order to amuse themselves. They get intoxicated, take poison, ruin their health, ruin their brain, they utter crudities. They do all that because they are bored. Well, if instead of going down, one had risen up, one would have profited by the circumstances. Instead of profiting, one falls a little lower yet than where one was. When people get a big blow in their life, some misfortune (what men call "misfortune", there are people who do have misfortunes), the first thing they try to do is to forget it - as though one did not forget quickly enough! And to forget, they do anything whatsoever. When there is something painful, they want to distract themselves - what they call distraction, that is, doing stupid things, that is to say, going down in their consciousness, going down a little instead of rising up.... Has something extremely painful happened to you, something very grievous? Do not become stupefied, do not seek forgetfulness, do not go down into the inconscience; you must go to the end and find the light that is behind, the truth, the force and the joy; and for that you must be strong and refuse to slide down. But that we shall see a little later, my children, when you will be a little older. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 50,#KEYS
57:Although a devout student of the Bible, Paracelsus instinctively adopted the broad patterns of essential learning, as these had been clarified by Pythagoras of Samos and Plato of Athens. Being by nature a mystic as well as a scientist, he also revealed a deep regard for the Neoplatonic philosophy as expounded by Plotinus, Iamblichus, and Proclus. Neoplatonism is therefore an invaluable aid to the interpretation of the Paracelsian doctrine.
Paracelsus held that true knowledge is attained in two ways, or rather that the pursuit of knowledge is advanced by a two-fold method, the elements of which are completely interdependent. In our present terminology, we can say that these two parts of method are intuition and experience. To Paracelsus, these could never be divided from each other.
The purpose of intuition is to reveal certain basic ideas which must then be tested and proven by experience. Experience, in turn, not only justifies intuition, but contributes certain additional knowledge by which the impulse to further growth is strengthened and developed. Paracelsus regarded the separation of intuition and experience to be a disaster, leading inevitably to greater error and further disaster. Intuition without experience allows the mind to fall into an abyss of speculation without adequate censorship by practical means. Experience without intuition could never be fruitful because fruitfulness comes not merely from the doing of things, but from the overtones which stimulate creative thought. Further, experience is meaningless unless there is within man the power capable of evaluating happenings and occurrences. The absence of this evaluating factor allows the individual to pass through many kinds of experiences, either misinterpreting them or not inter preting them at all. So Paracelsus attempted to explain intuition and how man is able to apprehend that which is not obvious or apparent. Is it possible to prove beyond doubt that the human being is capable of an inward realization of truths or facts without the assistance of the so-called rational faculty?
According to Paracelsus, intuition was possible because of the existence in nature of a mysterious substance or essence-a universal life force. He gave this many names, but for our purposes, the simplest term will be appropriate. He compared it to light, further reasoning that there are two kinds of light: a visible radiance, which he called brightness, and an invisible radiance, which he called darkness. There is no essential difference between light and darkness. There is a dark light, which appears luminous to the soul but cannot be sensed by the body. There is a visible radiance which seems bright to the senses, but may appear dark to the soul. We must recognize that Paracelsus considered light as pertaining to the nature of being, the total existence from which all separate existences arise. Light not only contains the energy needed to support visible creatures, and the whole broad expanse of creation, but the invisible part of light supports the secret powers and functions of man, particularly intuition. Intuition, therefore, relates to the capacity of the individual to become attuned to the hidden side of life. By light, then, Paracelsus implies much more than the radiance that comes from the sun, a lantern, or a candle. To him, light is the perfect symbol, emblem, or figure of total well-being. Light is the cause of health. Invisible light, no less real if unseen, is the cause of wisdom. As the light of the body gives strength and energy, sustaining growth and development, so the light of the soul bestows understanding, the light of the mind makes wisdom possible, and the light of the spirit confers truth. Therefore, truth, wisdom, understanding, and health are all manifesta tions or revelations ot one virtue or power. What health is to the body, morality is to the emotions, virtue to the soul, wisdom to the mind, and reality to the spirit. This total content of living values is contained in every ray of visible light. This ray is only a manifestation upon one level or plane of the total mystery of life. Therefore, when we look at a thing, we either see its objective, physical form, or we apprehend its inner light Everything that lives, lives in light; everything that has an existence, radiates light. All things derive their life from light, and this light, in its root, is life itself. This, indeed, is the light that lighteth every man who cometh into the world. ~ Manly P Hall, Paracelsus,#KEYS
58:Chapter LXXXII: Epistola Penultima: The Two Ways to Reality
Cara Soror,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
How very sensible of you, though I admit somewhat exacting!
You write-Will you tell me exactly why I should devote so much of my valuable time to subjects like Magick and Yoga.
That is all very well. But you ask me to put it in syllogistic form. I have no doubt this can be done, though the task seems somewhat complicated. I think I will leave it to you to construct your series of syllogisms yourself from the arguments of this letter.
In your main question the operative word is "valuable. Why, I ask, in my turn, should you consider your time valuable? It certainly is not valuable unless the universe has a meaning, and what is more, unless you know what that meaning is-at least roughly-it is millions to one that you will find yourself barking up the wrong tree.
First of all let us consider this question of the meaning of the universe. It is its own evidence to design, and that design intelligent design. There is no question of any moral significance-"one man's meat is another man's poison" and so on. But there can be no possible doubt about the existence of some kind of intelligence, and that kind is far superior to anything of which we know as human.
How then are we to explore, and finally to interpret this intelligence?
It seems to me that there are two ways and only two. Imagine for a moment that you are an orphan in charge of a guardian, inconceivably learned from your point of view.
Suppose therefore that you are puzzled by some problem suitable to your childish nature, your obvious and most simple way is to approach your guardian and ask him to enlighten you. It is clearly part of his function as guardian to do his best to help you. Very good, that is the first method, and close parallel with what we understand by the word Magick.
We are bothered by some difficulty about one of the elements-say Fire-it is therefore natural to evoke a Salamander to instruct you on the difficult point. But you must remember that your Holy Guardian Angel is not only far more fully instructed than yourself on every point that you can conceive, but you may go so far as to say that it is definitely his work, or part of his work; remembering always that he inhabits a sphere or plane which is entirely different from anything of which you are normally aware.
To attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel is consequently without doubt by far the simplest way by which you can yourself approach that higher order of being.
That, then, is a clearly intelligible method of procedure. We call it Magick.
It is of course possible to strengthen the link between him and yourself so that in course of time you became capable of moving and, generally speaking, operating on that plane which is his natural habitat.
There is however one other way, and one only, as far as I can see, of reaching this state.
It is at least theoretically possible to exalt the whole of your own consciousness until it becomes as free to move on that exalted plane as it is for him. You should note, by the way, that in this case the postulation of another being is not necessary. There is no way of refuting the solipsism if you feel like that. Personally I cannot accede to its axiom. The evidence for an external universe appears to me perfectly adequate.
Still there is no extra charge for thinking on those lines if you so wish.
I have paid a great deal of attention in the course of my life to the method of exalting the human consciousness in this way; and it is really quite legitimate to identify my teaching with that of the Yogis.
I must however point out that in the course of my instruction I have given continual warnings as to the dangers of this line of research. For one thing there is no means of checking your results in the ordinary scientific sense. It is always perfectly easy to find a subjective explanation of any phenomenon; and when one considers that the greatest of all the dangers in any line of research arise from egocentric vanity, I do not think I have exceeded my duty in anything that I have said to deter students from undertaking so dangerous a course as Yoga.
It is, of course, much safer if you are in a position to pursue in the Indian Jungles, provided that your health will stand the climate and also, I must say, unless you have a really sound teacher on whom you can safely rely. But then, if we once introduce a teacher, why not go to the Fountain-head and press towards the Knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel?
In any case your Indian teacher will ultimately direct you to seek guidance from that source, so it seems to me that you have gone to a great deal of extra trouble and incurred a great deal of unnecessary danger by not leaving yourself in the first place in the hands of the Holy Guardian Angel.
In any case there are the two methods which stand as alternatives. I do not know of any third one which can be of any use whatever. Logically, since you have asked me to be logical, there is certainly no third way; there is the external way of Magick, and the internal way of Yoga: there you have your alternatives, and there they cease.
Love is the law, love under will.
Fraternally,
666 ~ Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears,#KEYS
59:Education
THE EDUCATION of a human being should begin at birth and continue throughout his life.
Indeed, if we want this education to have its maximum result, it should begin even before birth; in this case it is the mother herself who proceeds with this education by means of a twofold action: first, upon herself for her own improvement, and secondly, upon the child whom she is forming physically. For it is certain that the nature of the child to be born depends very much upon the mother who forms it, upon her aspiration and will as well as upon the material surroundings in which she lives. To see that her thoughts are always beautiful and pure, her feelings always noble and fine, her material surroundings as harmonious as possible and full of a great simplicity - this is the part of education which should apply to the mother herself. And if she has in addition a conscious and definite will to form the child according to the highest ideal she can conceive, then the very best conditions will be realised so that the child can come into the world with his utmost potentialities. How many difficult efforts and useless complications would be avoided in this way!
Education to be complete must have five principal aspects corresponding to the five principal activities of the human being: the physical, the vital, the mental, the psychic and the spiritual. Usually, these phases of education follow chronologically the growth of the individual; this, however, does not mean that one of them should replace another, but that all must continue, completing one another until the end of his life.
We propose to study these five aspects of education one by one and also their interrelationships. But before we enter into the details of the subject, I wish to make a recommendation to parents. Most parents, for various reasons, give very little thought to the true education which should be imparted to children. When they have brought a child into the world, provided him with food, satisfied his various material needs and looked after his health more or less carefully, they think they have fully discharged their duty. Later on, they will send him to school and hand over to the teachers the responsibility for his education.
There are other parents who know that their children must be educated and who try to do what they can. But very few, even among those who are most serious and sincere, know that the first thing to do, in order to be able to educate a child, is to educate oneself, to become conscious and master of oneself so that one never sets a bad example to one's child. For it is above all through example that education becomes effective. To speak good words and to give wise advice to a child has very little effect if one does not oneself give him an example of what one teaches. Sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self-control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches. Parents, have a high ideal and always act in accordance with it and you will see that little by little your child will reflect this ideal in himself and spontaneously manifest the qualities you would like to see expressed in his nature. Quite naturally a child has respect and admiration for his parents; unless they are quite unworthy, they will always appear to their child as demigods whom he will try to imitate as best he can.
With very few exceptions, parents are not aware of the disastrous influence that their own defects, impulses, weaknesses and lack of self-control have on their children. If you wish to be respected by a child, have respect for yourself and be worthy of respect at every moment. Never be authoritarian, despotic, impatient or ill-tempered. When your child asks you a question, do not give him a stupid or silly answer under the pretext that he cannot understand you. You can always make yourself understood if you take enough trouble; and in spite of the popular saying that it is not always good to tell the truth, I affirm that it is always good to tell the truth, but that the art consists in telling it in such a way as to make it accessible to the mind of the hearer. In early life, until he is twelve or fourteen, the child's mind is hardly open to abstract notions and general ideas. And yet you can train it to understand these things by using concrete images, symbols or parables. Up to quite an advanced age and for some who mentally always remain children, a narrative, a story, a tale well told teach much more than any number of theoretical explanations.
Another pitfall to avoid: do not scold your child without good reason and only when it is quite indispensable. A child who is too often scolded gets hardened to rebuke and no longer attaches much importance to words or severity of tone. And above all, take good care never to scold him for a fault which you yourself commit. Children are very keen and clear-sighted observers; they soon find out your weaknesses and note them without pity.
When a child has done something wrong, see that he confesses it to you spontaneously and frankly; and when he has confessed, with kindness and affection make him understand what was wrong in his movement so that he will not repeat it, but never scold him; a fault confessed must always be forgiven. You should not allow any fear to come between you and your child; fear is a pernicious means of education: it invariably gives birth to deceit and lying. Only a discerning affection that is firm yet gentle and an adequate practical knowledge will create the bonds of trust that are indispensable for you to be able to educate your child effectively. And do not forget that you have to control yourself constantly in order to be equal to your task and truly fulfil the duty which you owe your child by the mere fact of having brought him into the world.
Bulletin, February 1951
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
60:One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone.
The descriptions, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend.
The Chapters, headed 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing.
It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story.
As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me--who knows how?--with a transitory suddenness that left me no choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their source these random flashes of thought--as being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out from the 'flint' of one's own mind by the 'steel' of a friend's chance remark but they had also a way of their own, of occurring, a propos of nothing --specimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, 'an effect without a cause.' Such, for example, was the last line of 'The Hunting of the Snark,' which came into my head (as I have already related in 'The Theatre' for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been passages which occurred in dreams, and which I cannot trace to any antecedent cause whatever. There are at least two instances of such dream-suggestions in this book--one, my Lady's remark, 'it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does', the other, Eric Lindon's badinage about having been in domestic service.
And thus it came to pass that I found myself at last in possession of a huge unwieldy mass of litterature--if the reader will kindly excuse the spelling --which only needed stringing together, upon the thread of a consecutive story, to constitute the book I hoped to write. Only! The task, at first, seemed absolutely hopeless, and gave me a far clearer idea, than I ever had before, of the meaning of the word 'chaos': and I think it must have been ten years, or more, before I had succeeded in classifying these odds-and-ends sufficiently to see what sort of a story they indicated: for the story had to grow out of the incidents, not the incidents out of the story I am telling all this, in no spirit of egoism, but because I really believe that some of my readers will be interested in these details of the 'genesis' of a book, which looks so simple and straight-forward a matter, when completed, that they might suppose it to have been written straight off, page by page, as one would write a letter, beginning at the beginning; and ending at the end.
It is, no doubt, possible to write a story in that way: and, if it be not vanity to say so, I believe that I could, myself,--if I were in the unfortunate position (for I do hold it to be a real misfortune) of being obliged to produce a given amount of fiction in a given time,--that I could 'fulfil my task,' and produce my 'tale of bricks,' as other slaves have done. One thing, at any rate, I could guarantee as to the story so produced--that it should be utterly commonplace, should contain no new ideas whatever, and should be very very weary reading!
This species of literature has received the very appropriate name of 'padding' which might fitly be defined as 'that which all can write and none can read.' That the present volume contains no such writing I dare not avow: sometimes, in order to bring a picture into its proper place, it has been necessary to eke out a page with two or three extra lines : but I can honestly say I have put in no more than I was absolutely compelled to do.
My readers may perhaps like to amuse themselves by trying to detect, in a given passage, the one piece of 'padding' it contains. While arranging the 'slips' into pages, I found that the passage was 3 lines too short. I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in 3 consecutive lines. Now can my readers guess which they are?
A harder puzzle if a harder be desired would be to determine, as to the Gardener's Song, in which cases (if any) the stanza was adapted to the surrounding text, and in which (if any) the text was adapted to the stanza.
Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature--at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it come's is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune. I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story--I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it--but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen storybooks have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'--is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
Hence it is that, in 'Sylvie and Bruno,' I have striven with I know not what success to strike out yet another new path: be it bad or good, it is the best I can do. It is written, not for money, and not for fame, but in the hope of supplying, for the children whom I love, some thoughts that may suit those hours of innocent merriment which are the very life of Childhood; and also in the hope of suggesting, to them and to others, some thoughts that may prove, I would fain hope, not wholly out of harmony with the graver cadences of Life.
If I have not already exhausted the patience of my readers, I would like to seize this opportunity perhaps the last I shall have of addressing so many friends at once of putting on record some ideas that have occurred to me, as to books desirable to be written--which I should much like to attempt, but may not ever have the time or power to carry through--in the hope that, if I should fail (and the years are gliding away very fast) to finish the task I have set myself, other hands may take it up.
First, a Child's Bible. The only real essentials of this would be, carefully selected passages, suitable for a child's reading, and pictures. One principle of selection, which I would adopt, would be that Religion should be put before a child as a revelation of love--no need to pain and puzzle the young mind with the history of crime and punishment. (On such a principle I should, for example, omit the history of the Flood.) The supplying of the pictures would involve no great difficulty: no new ones would be needed : hundreds of excellent pictures already exist, the copyright of which has long ago expired, and which simply need photo-zincography, or some similar process, for their successful reproduction. The book should be handy in size with a pretty attractive looking cover--in a clear legible type--and, above all, with abundance of pictures, pictures, pictures!
Secondly, a book of pieces selected from the Bible--not single texts, but passages of from 10 to 20 verses each--to be committed to memory. Such passages would be found useful, to repeat to one's self and to ponder over, on many occasions when reading is difficult, if not impossible: for instance, when lying awake at night--on a railway-journey --when taking a solitary walk-in old age, when eyesight is failing or wholly lost--and, best of all, when illness, while incapacitating us for reading or any other occupation, condemns us to lie awake through many weary silent hours: at such a time how keenly one may realise the truth of David's rapturous cry "O how sweet are thy words unto my throat: yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!"
I have said 'passages,' rather than single texts, because we have no means of recalling single texts: memory needs links, and here are none: one may have a hundred texts stored in the memory, and not be able to recall, at will, more than half-a-dozen--and those by mere chance: whereas, once get hold of any portion of a chapter that has been committed to memory, and the whole can be recovered: all hangs together.
Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages--enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.
These two books of sacred, and secular, passages for memory--will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts. Let me say this, in better words than my own, by copying a passage from that most interesting book, Robertson's Lectures on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Lecture XLIX. "If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps."
Fourthly, a "Shakespeare" for girls: that is, an edition in which everything, not suitable for the perusal of girls of (say) from 10 to 17, should be omitted. Few children under 10 would be likely to understand or enjoy the greatest of poets: and those, who have passed out of girlhood, may safely be left to read Shakespeare, in any edition, 'expurgated' or not, that they may prefer: but it seems a pity that so many children, in the intermediate stage, should be debarred from a great pleasure for want of an edition suitable to them. Neither Bowdler's, Chambers's, Brandram's, nor Cundell's 'Boudoir' Shakespeare, seems to me to meet the want: they are not sufficiently 'expurgated.' Bowdler's is the most extraordinary of all: looking through it, I am filled with a deep sense of wonder, considering what he has left in, that he should have cut anything out! Besides relentlessly erasing all that is unsuitable on the score of reverence or decency, I should be inclined to omit also all that seems too difficult, or not likely to interest young readers. The resulting book might be slightly fragmentary: but it would be a real treasure to all British maidens who have any taste for poetry.
If it be needful to apologize to any one for the new departure I have taken in this story--by introducing, along with what will, I hope, prove to be acceptable nonsense for children, some of the graver thoughts of human life--it must be to one who has learned the Art of keeping such thoughts wholly at a distance in hours of mirth and careless ease. To him such a mixture will seem, no doubt, ill-judged and repulsive. And that such an Art exists I do not dispute: with youth, good health, and sufficient money, it seems quite possible to lead, for years together, a life of unmixed gaiety--with the exception of one solemn fact, with which we are liable to be confronted at any moment, even in the midst of the most brilliant company or the most sparkling entertainment. A man may fix his own times for admitting serious thought, for attending public worship, for prayer, for reading the Bible: all such matters he can defer to that 'convenient season', which is so apt never to occur at all: but he cannot defer, for one single moment, the necessity of attending to a message, which may come before he has finished reading this page,' this night shalt thy soul be required of thee.'
The ever-present sense of this grim possibility has been, in all ages, 1 an incubus that men have striven to shake off. Few more interesting subjects of enquiry could be found, by a student of history, than the various weapons that have been used against this shadowy foe. Saddest of all must have been the thoughts of those who saw indeed an existence beyond the grave, but an existence far more terrible than annihilation--an existence as filmy, impalpable, all but invisible spectres, drifting about, through endless ages, in a world of shadows, with nothing to do, nothing to hope for, nothing to love! In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passage
Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium
Versatur urna serius ocius
Sors exitura et nos in aeternum
Exilium impositura cymbae.
Yes, to him this present life--spite of all its weariness and all its sorrow--was the only life worth having: all else was 'exile'! Does it not seem almost incredible that one, holding such a creed, should ever have smiled?
And many in this day, I fear, even though believing in an existence beyond the grave far more real than Horace ever dreamed of, yet regard it as a sort of 'exile' from all the joys of life, and so adopt Horace's theory, and say 'let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'
We go to entertainments, such as the theatre--I say 'we', for I also go to the play, whenever I get a chance of seeing a really good one and keep at arm's length, if possible, the thought that we may not return alive. Yet how do you know--dear friend, whose patience has carried you through this garrulous preface that it may not be your lot, when mirth is fastest and most furious, to feel the sharp pang, or the deadly faintness, which heralds the final crisis--to see, with vague wonder, anxious friends bending over you to hear their troubled whispers perhaps yourself to shape the question, with trembling lips, "Is it serious?", and to be told "Yes: the end is near" (and oh, how different all Life will look when those words are said!)--how do you know, I say, that all this may not happen to you, this night?
And dare you, knowing this, say to yourself "Well, perhaps it is an immoral play: perhaps the situations are a little too 'risky', the dialogue a little too strong, the 'business' a little too suggestive.
I don't say that conscience is quite easy: but the piece is so clever, I must see it this once! I'll begin a stricter life to-morrow." To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow!
"Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says,
'Sorrow for sin God's judgement stays!'
Against God's Spirit he lies; quite stops Mercy with insult; dares, and drops,
Like a scorch'd fly, that spins in vain
Upon the axis of its pain,
Then takes its doom, to limp and crawl,
Blind and forgot, from fall to fall."
Let me pause for a moment to say that I believe this thought, of the possibility of death--if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life--that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds'--but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man--and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
One other matter may perhaps seem to call for apology--that I should have treated with such entire want of sympathy the British passion for 'Sport', which no doubt has been in by-gone days, and is still, in some forms of it, an excellent school for hardihood and for coolness in moments of danger.
But I am not entirely without sympathy for genuine 'Sport': I can heartily admire the courage of the man who, with severe bodily toil, and at the risk of his life, hunts down some 'man-eating' tiger: and I can heartily sympathize with him when he exults in the glorious excitement of the chase and the hand-to-hand struggle with the monster brought to bay. But I can but look with deep wonder and sorrow on the hunter who, at his ease and in safety, can find pleasure in what involves, for some defenceless creature, wild terror and a death of agony: deeper, if the hunter be one who has pledged himself to preach to men the Religion of universal Love: deepest of all, if it be one of those 'tender and delicate' beings, whose very name serves as a symbol of Love--'thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women'--whose mission here is surely to help and comfort all that are in pain or sorrow!
'Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.' ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Health is my expected heaven. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 2:Wisdom is the health of the soul. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 3:The first wealth is health. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 4:Happiness is health and a short memory! ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 5:Health and cheerfulness make beauty ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 6:Our bodies need real, fresh food to maintain health. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 7:Good nature is often a mere matter of health. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 8:Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 9:You must all pay attention to your health first. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 10:Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 11:I have decided to be happy because it’s good for one’s health. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove 12:Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 13:No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove 14:I allow the healing power in my body to manifest perfect health. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 15:God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 16:Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. ~ quentin-crisp, @wisdomtrove 17:Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 18:Be careful about reading health books for you may die of a misprint. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 19:My health is important, so I learn everything I can about nutrition. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 20:Rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 21:He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 22:If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 23:Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 24:Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 25:Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 26:It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 27:The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 28:There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 29:Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 30:The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 31:They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 32:When women take care of their health, they become their own best friend. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 33:I give a portion of my time to helping others. It is good for my own health. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 34:Being well adjusted to a sick society is not an indication of health. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 35:Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 36:Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 37:I lovingly do everything I can to assist my body in maintaining perfect health ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 38:Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 39:Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort. ~ kelly-mcgonigal, @wisdomtrove 40:health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 41:The measure of mental health is the disposition to see good everywhere. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 42:Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 43:I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 44:It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 45:Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 46:It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 47:Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 48:Take heart! Many great things have been done by people in poor mental health. ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove 49:the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it ! ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 50:Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health, and love. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 51:Get Health. No labour, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 52:Gratitude is the great multiplier, so say thank you for your health every single day. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 53:Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 54:You can't be great if you don't feel great. Make exceptional health your 55:Health is the greatest of blessings - with health and hope we should be content to live. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 56:The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. ~ arthur-schopenhauer, @wisdomtrove 57:It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 58:Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 59:How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 60:By which I get my wealth& 61:Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove 62:Promise yourself that you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 63:Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 64:Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove 65:It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 66:I used to work at a health food store. I got fired for drinking straight Bosco on the job. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 67:Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 68:You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 69:I have a thorough understanding of nutrition, and I feed my body only foods that support health. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 70:By all means ask for abundance and health for you, but also ask for it to be given to everyone. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 71:Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 72:Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 73:Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 74:Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 75:Flood your mind continually with pictures of the health, happiness, and prosperity that you desire. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 76:Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove 77:The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body. ~ diogenes, @wisdomtrove 78:Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 79:Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 80:Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 81:Health: thank the universe for your own healing. Laugh, stress free happiness will keep you healthy. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 82:I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 83:Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove 84:Stress leads to poor health, poor decision-making, poor thinking, and poor socialization. ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove 85:But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 86:A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 87:Contentment is the greatest treasure. Health is the greatest possession. Confidence is the greatest friend. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 88:Complaining is the absolute worst possible thing you could do for your health or your wealth. The worst! ~ t-harv-eker, @wisdomtrove 89:To keep the body in good health is a duty … otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove 90:Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 91:Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove 92:We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 93:Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 94:Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 95:He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 96:The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 97:We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 98:He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 99:It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 100:Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 101:Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all? ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 102:Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 103:Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 104:Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It & 105:This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 106:Today be thankful and think how rich you are. Your family is priceless, your time is gold and your health is wealth. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 107:When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 108:Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 109:Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 110:I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 111:Let's fill our minds with thoughts of peace, courage, health, and hope, for "our life is what our thoughts make it." ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 112:The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,& 113:When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 114:The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 115:As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 116:I worked in a health food store once. A guy asked me, & 117:The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 118:Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 119:Just the simple process of letting go of negative thoughts will allow your natural state of health to emerge within you. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 120:Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 121:Forgiveness is a great healer. You can literally forgive your way to health. You can forgive your way to happiness. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 122:Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 123:Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 124:There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 125:If you want to be healthy study health... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth... if you want to be happy, study happiness. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 126:Better to hunt in fields for health unbought than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 127:Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 128:The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 129:The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 130:Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 131:If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 132:The more clear your vision of health, happiness and prosperity, the faster you move toward it and the faster it moves toward you. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 133:Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 134:It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. ~ norman-cousins, @wisdomtrove 135:Your outer world of attitudes, wealth, work, relationships and health will always be a reflection of your inner attitudes of mind. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 136:Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 137:Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 138:The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 139:If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society! ~ robert-h-schuller, @wisdomtrove 140:Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 141:To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 142:[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 143:I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 144:If you develop an image of success, health, abundance, joy, peace, happiness, nothing on earth will be able to hold those things from you. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 145:Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 146:When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 147:The simple act of walking can be a tremendous boost to your focus, productivity, clarity of mind, not to mention your health and waistline. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 148:I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 149:No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 150:Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 151:I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and that loves me;I've all but riches bodily. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 152:The feeling of being valuable & 153:The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy. ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove 154:A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health - mental and physical vigor - go hand in hand. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 155:Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 156:I'm healthy as can be - not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 157:Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 158:I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 159:I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 160:Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect. ~ t-harv-eker, @wisdomtrove 161:The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 162:We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 163:The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 164:As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 165:I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 166:At the end of the day, it's important to know what really matters most in life... your sanity, your health, your family, and the ability to start anew. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 167:Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 168:When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 169:Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 170:A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state. ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove 171:Until you can say what is most difficult for you to say, you cannot speak from your heart, live unafraid, create health, or receive support from others. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 172:No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 173:Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 174:There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 175:Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 176:If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 177:I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 178:Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 179:To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 180:Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 181:Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 182:The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 183:It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 184:If you have conflicts, everything breaks down in society. Kids can't go to school. Basic health can't be looked after. Every aspect of society falls apart. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 185:I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 186:When you get up and say, "God, I want to thank you for being alive, I've got family, I've got my health," you're going to draw in more of the good things from God. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 187:It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 188:Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 189:Believe in poverty and you will be poor. Believe in wealth and you will be rich. Believe in love and you will have love. Believe in health and you will be healthy. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove 190:Consciously or unconsciously, health can be transmitted. A very strong man, living with a weak man, will make him a little stronger, whether he knows it or not. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 191:Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 192:The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 193:Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 194:Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 195:Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 196:Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 197:It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 198:I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. ~ nelson-mandela, @wisdomtrove 199:The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove 200:Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 201:Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul? ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 202:The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove 203:To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 204:Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 205:Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 206:The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 207:Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 208:Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings? ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 209:I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living. ~ frida-kahlo, @wisdomtrove 210:Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 211:So of all the particulars of health and exercise, and fit nutriment, and tonics. Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 212:Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy with endless stories with no space to be alone - that's not good. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 213:We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him]. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 214:One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 215:The subtle physical body protects the body's physical health. It is the radiant life force that is you. When you get sick, it is because there is a problem with your subtle physical body. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 216:Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 217:I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 218:First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 219:I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 220:To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 221:happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 222:Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 223:Research is showing that we can change our attitude, and thereby our relationship to our circumstances, in ways that can make a difference in our health and well-being, and possibly to our longevity. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 224:We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our room tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that they shall not be wanting in the best property of all& 225:When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 226:I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 227:Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 228:A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 229:Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 230:Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 231:Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 232:The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 233:I accept perfect health as the natural state of my being. I now consciously release any mental patterns within me that could express as dis-ease in any way. Perfect health is my Divine right, and I claim it now. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 234:Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigour; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 235:If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic. Japa will bestow good health to both mind and body. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 236:Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible and nothing can change that; neither new girlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, or God. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 237:We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 238:I honour health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 239:I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will work in my own sphere, nor wish it other than it is. This alone is health and happiness. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 240:God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 241:Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 242:Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 243:Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 244:To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but I am really very rich in blessings which no amount of money could buy - health and happiness and inner peace. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 245:Relaxation and Recreation The most relaxing recreating forces are a healthy religion, sleep, music, and laughter. Have faith in God—learn to sleep well— Love good music—see the funny side of life— And health and happiness will be yours. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 246:The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 247:After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat? ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 248:The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 249:When it comes to our health, there are essentially four things under our control: the decision not to smoke, a commitment to exercise, the quality of our diet, and our level of optimism. And optimism is at least as beneficial as the others. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 250:I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 251:Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighbourhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 252:If you realize how vital to your whole spirit – and being and character and mind and health – friendship actually is, you will take time for it. The trouble is though for so many of us we have to be in trouble before we remember what’s essential. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 253:Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 254:Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 255:Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 256:What motivates someone who's become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one who has perfect health to go and work with the sick? If you understand - then you understand the root and cause of all existence. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 257:All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every new-born baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 258:It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 259:Our kids were God's kids first... We tend to forget this fact, regarding our children as "our" children, as though we have the final say in their health and welfare. We don't. All people are God's people, including the small people who sit at our tables. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 260:Happiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength, intelligence and vitality. But it should be practiced properly in solitude and with care. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 261:To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove 262:It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. ~ nathaniel-hawthorne, @wisdomtrove 263:Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime criteria in choosing the food. We cannot relish the blossoming of the heart without foregoing the taste of the tongue. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 264:What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 265:All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 266:As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 267:The Cross was the place of your spiritual birth; it must ever be the spot for renewing your health, for it is the sanatorium of every sin-sick soul. The blood is the true balm of Gilead; it is the only catholicon [remedy] which heals every spiritual disease. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 268:I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 269:Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 270:Meditation increases your vitality and strengthens your intelligence... your mental clarity and health improve. You acquire the patience and fortitude to face any problem in life. So, meditate! Only through meditation will you find the treasure you are seeking. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 271:Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 272:I don't really know what the prosperity gospel is. The way I define it is that I believe God wants you to prosper in your health, in your family, in your relationships, in your business, and in your career. So I do ... if that is the prosperity gospel, then I do believe that. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 273:Life itself, every bit of health that we enjoy, every hour of liberty and free enjoyment, the ability to see, to hear, to speak, to think, and to imagine- all this comes from the hand of God. We show our gratitude by giving back to Him a part of that which He has given to us. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 274:There lies within each person a huge reservoir of untapped potential for achievement, success, happiness, health and greater prosperity. It's like an ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channelled toward some great good. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 275:As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 276:If your thoughts are thoughts that draw low-frequency energy current to you, your physical and emotional attitudes will deteriorate, and emotional or physical disease will follow, whereas thoughts that draw high-frequency energy current to you create physical and emotional health. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 277:In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 278:Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is playful and tentative rather than absolute and mandatory, while the concern with material possessions is pragmatic rather than obsessive. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove 279:In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 280:The true penance comes when God takes away the soul's health and strength for doing penance. Even though I have mentioned elsewhere the great pain this lack causes, the pain is much more intense here. All these things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 281:I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 282:The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 283:there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do? ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 284:You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 285:My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 286:When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all that went into the meal's creation as well a deep understanding of the relationship between the food on our table, our own health, and our planet's health. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 287:My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 288:The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 289:And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 290:Meditation increases our vitality and strengthens our intelligence. Our beauty is enhanced and our mental accuracy and health are improved. We gain the mental fortitude and patience to face life's problems. Meditate! Only through meditation can we find the treasure we're looking for. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 291:Promise yourself you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible. Promise to think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best in yourself and others. Promise to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements in the future. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 292:That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even though it is used only when a strike threatens the national health, welfare, or safety-is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 293:You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 294:Life without balance can cost you your relationships. Life without balance can cost you your health. Life without balance can cost you your spirituality. Life without balance can cost you your wealth and your happiness. So find things to motivate you from all areas of life. Your success depends on it. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 295:When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 296:Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 297:Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 298:I am glad that Congress has recently authorized $800,000 to State welfare agencies to expand their day-care services during the remainder of this fiscal year. But we need much more. We need the $8 million in the 1965 budget for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare allocated to this purpose. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 299:Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 300:You create your future with the power of your intention. Intention is simply the conscious act of determining your future now. Health, harmony in relationships, happiness, money, creativity, and love will come to you in the future, based on your intentions now. Intend every day and create your future life. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 301:From Bonheur de Vivre - I was thirty-five then - to this cut-out - I am eighty-two - I have not changed; not in the way my friends mean who want to compliment me, no matter what, on my good health, but because all this time I have looked for the same things, which I have perhaps realized by different means. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove 302:Money gained on Sabbath-day is a loss, I dare to say. No blessing can come with that which comes to us, on the devil's back, by our willful disobedience of God's law. The loss of health by neglect of rest, and the loss of soul by neglect of hearing the gospel, soon turn all seeming profit into real loss. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 303:The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. . . Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 304:It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 305:We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 306:Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 307:Children, those who are unmarried should conserve their vital energy by maintaining celibacy. To turn what we gain by this in to ojas (vitality), we also need to do spiritual practice. With increase in ojas, our intelligence, memory, health and beauty will also increase. We will gain lasting mental quietude. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 308:If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 309:We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 310:Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 311:According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship in our lives. As our lives unfold, our biological health becomes a living, breathing biographical statement that conveys our strengths, weaknesses, hopes and fears. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 312:A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. . . . It is something that we must build up. You have to create within yourself the experience of beauty, liberation, and infinity. This is health. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 313:All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this: In the last ninety days, with this treasure of information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our relationships, our health, our children and our careers for the better, how many books have we read? ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 314:The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 315:It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 316:According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship in our lives. As our lives unfold, our biological health becomes a living, breathing biographical statement that conveys our strengths, weaknesses, hopes and fears. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 317:As an automobile needs premium fuel to operate well, our bodies need real, fresh food to maintain health. Packaged food creates dis-ease. There’s no nourishment in it. The body can only handle it for so long. Then, when you do have a problem, you usually take an over-the-counter or prescription drug. This is another form of poison. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 318:Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 319:Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 320:The Secret gives you anything you want: happiness, health, and wealth. ¶Thoughts become things!... Say this over to yourself and let it seep into your consciousness and your awareness. Your thoughts become things. If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 321:The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 322:Healing of the physical without the change in the mental and spiritual aspects brings little real help to the individual in the end. How true, because the mind and the body imprint and imitate each other. What we think, we become. What we become, we think. It's an insidious process that can predispose us to illness or it can lead us to health. ~ edgar-cayce, @wisdomtrove 323:If you want to have more, you have to become more. For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to become better. If you improve, everything will improve for you. If you grow, your money will grow; your relationships, your health, your business and every external effect will mirror that growth in equal correlation. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 324:Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws you to previously dark places. Just as the sun shines earlier and longer in the spring, changes that seemed impossible appear to be possible with each new insight into your own health. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 325:Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made-on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 326:When you ask for happiness and a beautiful life, ask not just for you, but for everyone. When you ask for something better, ask not just for you, but for everyone. By all means ask for abundance and health for you, but also ask for it to be given to everyone. Can you imagine what would happen if six billion people asked for these things for you? ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 327:If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern! ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 328:For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases or preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues... This much then, is clear: in all our conduct, it is the mean that is to be commended. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 329:Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 330:Stress is a hindrance thinking Stress leads to poor health, poor decision-making, poor thinking, and poor socialization. We now understand that higher-level thinking is more likely to occur in the brain of a student who is emotionally secure than in the brain of a student who is scared, upset, anxious, or stressed. Mawhinney and Sagan ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove 331:Somebody said you have to love what you do, but that's not necessarily true. What is true is that you have to love the opportunity. The opportunity to build life, future, health, success and fortune. Knocking on someone's door or making that extra call may not be something you love to do, but you love the opportunity of what might be behind that door or call. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 332:I find that as we really love and accept and APPROVE OF OURSELVES EXACTLY AS WE ARE, then everything in life works. It's as if little miracles are everywhere. Our health improves, we attract more money, our relationships become much more fulfilling, and we begin to express ourselves in creatively fulfilling ways. All this seems to happen without even trying. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 333:This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 334:Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 335:If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 336:Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom; you will have everything. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 337:I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this "cyclonic" atmosphere. This is the way to perfection, to strive to be perfect, and to strive to make perfect a few men and women. My idea of doing good is this: to evolve out a few giants, and not to strew pearls before swine, and so lose time, health, and energy. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 338:When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 339:Most very successful people can remember that their success was discovered and built out of adversity of some kind. It's not the problems that beset us-problems are surprisingly pretty much the same for millions of others-it's how we react to problems that determines not only our degree of growth and maturity but our future success-and, perhaps, much of our health. ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove 340:Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 341:Seek first the kingdom of wealth and you'll worry over every dollar. Seek first the kingdom of health and you'll sweat every blemish and bump. Seek first the kingdom of popularity, and you'll relive every conflict. Seek first the kingdom of safety, and you'll jump at every crack of the twig. But seek first His kingdom and you will find it. On that, we can depend and never worry. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 342:Never will I pray for the material things of the world. I am not calling to a servant to bring me food. I am not ordering an innkeeper to provide me with room. Never will I seek delivery of gold, love, good health, petty victories, fame, success, or happiness. Only for guidance will I pray, that I may be shown the way to acquire these things, and my prayer will always be answered. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 343:Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches. ~ salvador-dali, @wisdomtrove 344:Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union - the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 345:Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love! ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 346:Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 347:I had created sufficient age when I started out January 1, 1953, and I said, that's enough. From that time on I thought of myself as being ageless and in radiant health, and I am. I haven't gotten younger, but I see no point in getting younger. I can get along just fine as I am, and if you have learned the lessons of the seasons of life before, you really have no wish to return to a prior season of life. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 348:We all share a type of physical body that becomes ill or heals for the same reasons. We also share emotional and psychological crises common to the human experience. Everyone fears abandonment, loss and betrayal; anger is as toxic within a Jewish body as it is within a Christian, Muslim or Hindu body; and we are all drawn to love. When it comes to health of our spirits and our bodies, we have no difference. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 349:Children, daily practice of yoga or sun salutations (surya-namaskara) is very good for health and for spiritual practice. Lack of proper exercise is the cause of many of today's diseases. If we can get somewhere in time on foot, always walk instead of taking a vehicle. It is good exercise. Only if we have to go far should we depend on vehicles. Use a bicycle, whenever possible. This will save money, too. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 350:No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 351:Now there is living to give instead of to get. As you concentrate on the giving, you discover that just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving - even the most wonderful things like health and happiness and inner peace. There is a feeling of endless energy, it just never runs out, it seems to be as endless as air. You seem to be plugged in to the source of universal energy. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 352:Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 353:There is a direct relationship between your own level of self-esteem and the health of your personality. The more you like and respect yourself, the more you like and respect other people. The more you consider yourself to be a valuable and worthwhile person, the more you consider others to be valuable and worthwhile as well. The more you accept yourself just as you are, the more you accept others just as they are. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 354:We all share a type of physical body that becomes ill or heals for the same reasons. We also share emotional and psychological crises common to the human experience. Everyone fears abandonment, loss and betrayal; anger is as toxic within a Jewish body as it is within a Christian, Muslim or Hindu body; and we are all drawn to love. When it comes to health of our spirits and our bodies, we have no difference. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 355:Do what you love, but be damned sure it's profitable. If you do work you love, but it doesn't generate income, your business will fail. If you do work you hate, but it generates income, your health will fail... and your business along with it. If you can't do what you love and make it profitable, you've either got a hobby or a headache, not a sustainable business. Don't settle for anything less than passion and profit. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 356:Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 357:The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 358:I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 359:It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amount to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 360:The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga. While this is a legitimate place to begin, it is not the end. Even in simple asanas, one is experiencing the three levels of quest: the external quest, which brings firmness of the body; the internal quest, which brings steadiness of intelligence; and the innermost quest, which brings benevolence of spirit. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 361:Our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development. These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges. Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice. And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 362:Our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development. These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges. Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice. And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 363:Your goal in life should be to enjoy the highest levels of health and energy possible. This requires that you eat the right foods and fewer of them. It requires you to get regular exercise and move every joint of your body daily. To enjoy superb physical health, you must get lots of rest and recreation. Above all, you maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 364:To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 365:Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 366:Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and drinking. The money we waste on these things can be used for so many useful things. With the money we smoke away, we can buy an artificial leg for one who has lost a leg, pay for an eye operation for someone with a cataract, or buy a wheelchair for a polio victim. Or, if nothing else, we can buy some spiritual books for the local library. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 367:In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 368:If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 369:Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 370:The biggest potential for helping us overcome shame is this: We are those people. The truth is…we are the others. Most of us are one paycheck, one divorce, one drug-addicted kid, one mental health illness, one sexual assault, one drinking binge, one night of unprotected sex, or one affair away from being those people–the ones we don’t trust, the ones we pity, the ones we don’t let our kids play with, the ones bad things happen to, the ones we don’t want living next door. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 371:R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It is therefore clearly as almost infinite variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility, this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers, and even death. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 372:Anarchy wears two faces, both Creator and Destroyer. Thus Destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators can then build a better world. Rubble, once achieved makes further ruins' means irrelevant. Away with our explosives, then! Away with our Destroyers! They have no place within our better world. But let us raise a toast to all our bombers, all our bastards, most unlovely and most unforgivable, let's drink their health, then meet with them no more. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 373:If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes that we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say that I'm a "Liberal." ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 374:Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built into the very nature of growth and life. Growth can become over-growth, life & 375:I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced to the condition of a silly old woman, worrying about a lot of imaginary rules of health, standards of food-value, and a thousand minute details of conduct that were in themselves completely ridiculous and stupid, and yet which haunted me with vague and terrific sanctions. If I eat this, I may go out of my mind. If I do not eat that, I may die in the night. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 376:Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 377:The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 378:In life, friendships change, divorces happen, people move on, others die. Money and jobs will come and go. Live long enough and your health and body will change. It goes with the territory of being human. The fact that you are still here gives you an advantage. Don't look back. Look straight ahead!! Decide to use all of your knowledge, skills, experiences and your life lessons from your mistakes, defeats and setbacks, to start over again. Life changes. You may not have the same life as before, but you can still enjoy your life! ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 379:Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 380:Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest capacity both for enjoyment and creation is highly specialized and exclusive, and hence the greatest ages of art have often been strangely intolerant. The invectives of one school against another, perverse as they are philosophically, are artistically often signs of health, because they indicate a vital appreciation of certain kinds of beauty, a love of them that has grown into a jealous passion. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 381:.. is an active and internal process that includes investigating one's attitudes, memories and beliefs with the desire to release all negative patterns that prevent one's full emotional and spiritual recovery. This internal review inevitably leads one to review one's external circumstances in an effort to recreate one's life in a way that serves activation of will - the will to see and accept truths about one's life and how one has used one's energies; and the will to begin to use energy for the creation of love, self-esteem, and health. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 382:.. is an active and internal process that includes investigating one's attitudes, memories and beliefs with the desire to release all negative patterns that prevent one's full emotional and spiritual recovery. This internal review inevitably leads one to review one's external circumstances in an effort to recreate one's life in a way that serves activation of will - the will to see and accept truths about one's life and how one has used one's energies; and the will to begin to use energy for the creation of love, self-esteem, and health. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 383:If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 384:There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfilment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy. The need to live is our physical need for such things as food, clothing, shelter, economical well- being, health. The need to love is our social need to relate to other people, to belong, to love and to be loved. The need to learn is our mental need to develop and to grow. And the need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 385:But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind - too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 386:Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 387:Comrades!' he cried. & 388:It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and most concerns dying men. Indeed, what is necessary every hour of our life is necessary in the hour of death too, and as long as one lives he will have need of repentance, and therefore it is necessary in the hour of death too; but he who hath constantly exercised himself in it in his health and vigor, will do it with less pain in his sickness and weakness; and he who hath practiced it all his life, will do it with more ease and less perplexity in the hour of his death. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 389:Manipulating or controlling others through the use of one's illness or suffering,for example,was-and remains-extremely effective for people who find they cannot be direct in their interactions,Who argues with someone who is in pain? And if pain is the only power a person has,health is not an attractive replacement. It was apparent to me that becoming healthy represented more than just getting over an illness. Health represented a complex progression into a state of personal empowerment in which one had to move from a condition of vulnerability to one of invincibility,from victim to victor,from silent bystander to aggressive defender of personal boundaries.Completing this race to the finish was a yeoman's task if ever there was one.Indeed,in opening the psyche and soul to the healing process,we had expanded the journey of wellness into one of personal transformation." ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 390:Manipulating or controlling others through the use of one's illness or suffering, for example, was-and remains-extremely effective for people who find they cannot be direct in their interactions, Who argues with someone who is in pain? And if pain is the only power a person has, health is not an attractive replacement. It was apparent to me that becoming healthy represented more than just getting over an illness. Health represented a complex progression into a state of personal empowerment in which one had to move from a condition of vulnerability to one of invincibility, from victim to victor, from silent bystander to aggressive defender of personal boundaries. Completing this race to the finish was a yeoman's task if ever there was one. Indeed, in opening the psyche and soul to the healing process, we had expanded the journey of wellness into one of personal transformation." ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 391:Eventually, we may reach a point when it will be impossible to disconnect from this all-knowing network even for a moment. Disconnection will mean death. If medical hopes are realised, future people will incorporate into their bodies a host of biometric devices, bionic organs and nano-robots, which will monitor our health and defend us from infections, illnesses and damage. Yet these devices will have to be online 24/7, both in order to be updated with the latest medical news, and in order to protect them from the new plagues of cyberspace. Just as my home computer is constantly attacked by viruses, worms and Trojan horses, so will be my pacemaker, my hearing aid and my nanotech immune system. If I don’t update my body’s anti-virus program regularly, I will wake up one day to discover that the millions of nano-robots coursing through my veins are now controlled by a North Korean hacker. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 392:A PRAYER The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous, powerful, or good, but simply to be radiant. I desire to radiate health, cheerfulness, calm courage and good will. I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected—ready to say I do not know, if it be so, and to meet all men on an absolute equality—to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid. I wish others to live their lives, too—up to their highest, fullest and best. To that end I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I’ll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference, and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 393:When it comes right down to it, the challenge of mindfulness is to realize that this is it Right now is my life. The question is, What is my relationship to it going to be? Does my life just automatically happen to me? Am I a total prisoner of my circumstances or my obligations, of my body or my illness, or of my history? Do I become hostile or defensive or depressed if certain buttons get pushed, happy if other buttons are pushed, and frightened if something else happens? What are my choices? Do I have any options? We will be looking into these questions more deeply when we take up the subject of our reactions to stress and how our emotions affect our health. For now the important point is to grasp the value of bringing the practice of mindfulness into the conduct of our daily lives. Is there any waking moment of your life that would not be richer and more alive for you if you were more fully awake while it was happening? ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
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46:Get physical to help your fiscal health ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
47:Life is not living, but living in health. ~ Martial, #NFDB
48:Live in joy, in love, in health, in peace. ~ Buddha, #NFDB
49:The absence of disease is not health. ~ Shawn Achor, #NFDB
50:The chiefe boxe of health is time. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
51:Watch out for those health claims. ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
52:"Difficulties are necessary for health." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
53:Gut health is the key to overall health. ~ Kris Carr, #NFDB
54:I row after health like a waterman. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
55:Restraint never ruins one's health. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
56:The state of ill health is a moment to ~ Vasant Lad, #NFDB
57:You need to make good health a hobby. ~ Jack LaLanne, #NFDB
58:Handguns are a public health issue. ~ Joycelyn Elders, #NFDB
59:Happiness is the highest form of health. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
60:Health and education are always issues. ~ Helen Clark, #NFDB
61:Lack of time is a real health killer. ~ Marilu Henner, #NFDB
62:Our health care is rationed by wealth. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
63:The essence of health is inner balance. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
64:Fair fights were bad for your health. ~ Robert J Crane, #NFDB
65:Health is worth more than learning. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
66:Make health care a right, not a privilege. ~ Ed Pastor, #NFDB
67:My health is good; it's my age that's bad. ~ Roy Acuff, #NFDB
68:You cant take good health for granted. ~ Jack Osbourne, #NFDB
69:Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. ~ Plato, #NFDB
70:Beauty is health. Health is beauty. ~ Andre Leon Talley, #NFDB
71:Go in peace, boys. And return in health. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
72:Health consists with temperance alone. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
73:Health to the ocean means health for us. ~ Sylvia Earle, #NFDB
74:Health without money is halfe an ague. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
75:I have no regrets. I've got my health. ~ Naomi Campbell, #NFDB
76:I honor health as the first Muse. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
77:Nothing can be comparable to good health ~ Choi Hong Hi, #NFDB
78:The groundwork of all happiness is health. ~ Leigh Hunt, #NFDB
79:Virtue is the health of the soul, ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
80:A good digestion turneth all to health. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
81:A woman's health is her capital. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #NFDB
82:Beautiful food and health are priceless. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
83:Donald Trump needs mental-health help. ~ Mika Brzezinski, #NFDB
84:Happiness is health and a short memory! ~ Audrey Hepburn, #NFDB
85:Health is the greatest of human blessings. ~ Hippocrates, #NFDB
86:Pasta is not health food—it is hurt food. ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
87:There can be no happiness without good health ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
88:Vivacity is the health of the spirit. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
89:Your health is not outside of you. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
90:All of our health is basically genetics. ~ Frank Langella, #NFDB
91:Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. ~ Plato, #NFDB
92:For life is only life when blessed with health. ~ Martial, #NFDB
93:Health and cheerfulness make beauty ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
94:Health care is a right, not a privilege. ~ Edward Kennedy, #NFDB
95:Health is not valued till sickness comes. ~ Thomas Fuller, #NFDB
96:Health is the requisite after morality ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
97:Health is value greater than studying. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
98:I believe health care is a civil right. ~ Dennis Kucinich, #NFDB
99:I'm a health nut, but when I eat, I go hard. ~ Kevin Hart, #NFDB
100:Loving yourself is good for your health. ~ Martha Stewart, #NFDB
101:May you live long, but not in good health. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
102:Sobriety and health is the greatest thing. ~ Jeff Bridges, #NFDB
103:We will have health care reform in America. ~ Dick Durbin, #NFDB
104:A man needs a purpose for real health. ~ Sherwood Anderson, #NFDB
105:Beautiful food and health are priceless. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
106:Health care should be affordable for everyone. ~ Ed Pastor, #NFDB
107:health elixir, so be happy now, no excuses! ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
108:Philosophy is the health of the mind. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
109:We're all gonna be gay if we get health care! ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
110:Age is not the determining factor in health. ~ Pete Egoscue, #NFDB
111:Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ~ Ingrid Bergman, #NFDB
112:Health and healing will follow fasting. ~ Jentezen Franklin, #NFDB
113:Health can be squandered, but not stored up. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
114:I like being vegan, I think it's good for my health. ~ Moby, #NFDB
115:I'm sick with life, I'm rotten with health. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
116:In wine there is health (In vino sanitas) ~ Pliny the Elder, #NFDB
117:My daily choices create my perfect health. ~ Tommy Newberry, #NFDB
118:Praise is “inner health made audible.”25 ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
119:Anger, hatred, fear, is very bad for our health ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
120:As for health, consider yourself well. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
121:Evolution has hard-wired health to happiness, ~ John J Ratey, #NFDB
122:Green exercise improves psychological health. ~ Richard Louv, #NFDB
123:Health is a return to our memory of wholeness. ~ David Simon, #NFDB
124:Mental health is one of the last great taboos. ~ Stephen Fry, #NFDB
125:My health, thank God, has kept my brain alive. ~ Don Rickles, #NFDB
126:AVOID FOOD PRODUCTS THAT MAKE HEALTH CLAIMS. ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
127:For many years I didn't have health insurance. ~ Chad Harbach, #NFDB
128:Governance is key to a robust Health IT system. ~ Dick Taylor, #NFDB
129:Health is more important than anything. ~ Floyd Mayweather Jr, #NFDB
130:If you would seek health, look first to the spine. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
131:Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
132:Music is important for one’s health. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
133:Music is important for one's health. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, #NFDB
134:The health you enjoy is largely your choice ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
135:Your virtue is the health of your soul. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
136:The health of the eye demands a horizon. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
137:Cerevisiam Bibat! (drink beer for health) ~ Hildegard of Bingen, #NFDB
138:Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. ~ Daniel Webster, #NFDB
139:Family, nature and health all go together. ~ Olivia Newton John, #NFDB
140:For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health. ~ Nicholas Udall, #NFDB
141:Having your health is having everything in life. ~ Brock Lesnar, #NFDB
142:Health depends on being in harmony with our souls ~ Edward Bach, #NFDB
143:Health is the core of human development ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland, #NFDB
144:I am in very good health. I've never felt better. ~ Hugh Hefner, #NFDB
145:If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
146:Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
147:Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health. ~ William Foege, #NFDB
148:10 A righteous man cares about his animal's health, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
149:Happiness lies, first of all, in health. ~ George William Curtis, #NFDB
150:Holiness is actually the true health of the person. ~ J I Packer, #NFDB
151:I love seeing someone else's health improve. ~ Kristin Cavallari, #NFDB
152:Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health. ~ Galen, #NFDB
153:My health and my family are the core of my being. ~ Jon Bon Jovi, #NFDB
154:Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics. ~ Benjamin Haydon, #NFDB
155:The attitudes towards mental health must change ~ Kate Middleton, #NFDB
156:The girl that I wanna save is like a danger to my health ~ Drake, #NFDB
157:Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health. ~ Melissa Etheridge, #NFDB
158:Health has its science, as well as disease. ~ Elizabeth Blackwell, #NFDB
159:Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
160:He asked me if I had adequate health insurance. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
161:Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
162:information could destroy health insurance systems, ~ Jean Tirole, #NFDB
163:Our bodies need real, fresh food to maintain health. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
164:The best part of health is fine disposition ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
165:The end of health or of vigor is sad. [p. 149] ~ Sylvia Boorstein, #NFDB
166:The market alone can't solve our health-care woes. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
167:The patient is the nucleus of the health care system. ~ Paul Ryan, #NFDB
168:Whatever one does cheerfully is good for health. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
169:DR. LINDA MATHESON. HEAD OF HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
170:giving too many fucks is bad for your mental health. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
171:Good nature is often a mere matter of health. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
172:I am talking about the general psychological health ~ John Fowles, #NFDB
173:I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health. ~ Chris Shays, #NFDB
174:Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
175:Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health. ~ David Gilmour, #NFDB
176:Health is a priceless wealth. Invest while you can. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
177:Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind. ~ Mary Baker Eddy, #NFDB
178:Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. ~ Aldo Leopold, #NFDB
179:Make space in your life, space for health and happiness ~ Kris Carr, #NFDB
180:Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
181:Mental Health is dedication to reality at all costs. ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
182:Negative thoughts are the single worst health habit. ~ Pete Egoscue, #NFDB
183:Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also. ~ Theodor Adorno, #NFDB
184:Health is when it hurts in a new place every day. ~ Faina Ranevskaya, #NFDB
185:I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day. ~ Anthony Hopkins, #NFDB
186:I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
187:"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
188:One without health cannot achieve any small thing. ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
189:on the outside. A warm bed, three meals a day, health ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
190:There are more Physitians in health then drunkards. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
191:years, according to my wish, "of health, of leisure, ~ Edward Gibbon, #NFDB
192:You must all pay attention to your health first. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
193:All this health and safety talk is just killing me. ~ Jeremy Clarkson, #NFDB
194:Diets don’t work, and they’re terrible for our health. ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
195:Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
196:Health insurance should be a given for every citizen. ~ Jesse Ventura, #NFDB
197:hideously expensive and poorly performing health services ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
198:I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
199:I think health is another exceedingly important thing. ~ Joan Collins, #NFDB
200:I was sick with desire; that sickness better than health. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
201:Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health. ~ Ishmael, #NFDB
202:My health has benefited the most from practising Wing Chun. ~ Ip Chun, #NFDB
203:The essence of all health begins through joyful living. ~ Jesse Dylan, #NFDB
204:Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
205:You can't love somebody into a state of mental health. ~ Harold Ramis, #NFDB
206:Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
207:Health can make money, but money cannot make health. ~ Maria Edgeworth, #NFDB
208:…he that has health and children will also have wealth ~ Chinua Achebe, #NFDB
209:If you don't have your health, you don't have anything. ~ Chuck Pagano, #NFDB
210:I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
211:I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction. ~ Dave Navarro, #NFDB
212:I was sure I could bring him back to health. He died…a ~ Victoria Holt, #NFDB
213:My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health. ~ Edward Dyer, #NFDB
214:Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People. ~ Charles James Fox, #NFDB
215:Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul. ~ Plato, #NFDB
216:We have to have an expectation of health, and seek health. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
217:When you nurse a grudge it is not good for your health. ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
218:Your health, when you have it, is invisible to you. I ~ Alexander Chee, #NFDB
219:A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
220:Fewer Uninsured Face Fines as Health Law's Exemptions Swell ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
221:Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness. ~ Gerald Jampolsky, #NFDB
222:I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee. ~ Chelsea Clinton, #NFDB
223:Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
224:Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost. ~ Norm MacDonald, #NFDB
225:Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health. ~ Martial, #NFDB
226:mental institutions, rural health clinics. Once, he met ~ Peter Hessler, #NFDB
227:ObamaCare is to health care as a fart is to an elevator. ~ Greg Gutfeld, #NFDB
228:Suicide and mental health problems have no boundaries. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
229:The pathway to health is really a process of rebirth. ~ O Carl Simonton, #NFDB
230:To achieve beauty, a woman must first achieve health. ~ Elizabeth Arden, #NFDB
231:We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own. ~ Jerome K Jerome, #NFDB
232:We're not going to have you burdening the health system. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
233:You Cannot Buy Your Health in a Bottle—You Must Earn It! ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
234:Your heritage foods are your health and your wealth. ~ Michael W Twitty, #NFDB
235:Actually, Ive been a fanatical health nut for five years. ~ Jerome Hines, #NFDB
236:Big-box health clubs oversell memberships by 400 percent ~ Steven Kotler, #NFDB
237:Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
238:It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act. ~ Stephen Harper, #NFDB
239:Make no mistake: Obamacare is a pro-death health program. ~ Kesha Rogers, #NFDB
240:The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED! ~ Paracelsus, #NFDB
241:The people you killed seem to be in excellent health. ~ Pierre Corneille, #NFDB
242:Wine is the healthiest and most health-giving of drinks. ~ Louis Pasteur, #NFDB
243:You retain your health only so long as you are willing. ~ Robert Svoboda, #NFDB
244:Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
245:I fully support a national health care program for the U.S. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
246:In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
247:I've always had good energy; I've always had good health. ~ Dick Gephardt, #NFDB
248:I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health. ~ Noel Coward, #NFDB
249:I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health. ~ No l Coward, #NFDB
250:Money is to my social existence what health is to my body. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
251:Republicans are one health crisis away from being Democrats? ~ Ray Garton, #NFDB
252:The wish for healing has always been half of health. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
253:Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland, #NFDB
254:You marry at the level of your own psychological health. ~ Sonia Friedman, #NFDB
255:All the money in the world can't buy you back good health. ~ Reba McEntire, #NFDB
256:God gives us health so that we may serve the sick. ~ Pier Giorgio Frassati, #NFDB
257:Health ... is the first and greatest of all blessings. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
258:My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way. ~ Charles Kennedy, #NFDB
259:The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge ~ Laozi, #NFDB
260:This inspiring film has the power to transform your health! ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
261:As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere. ~ Dan Rather, #NFDB
262:But at least I have my health," he said. It was a joke. ~ Lynne Rae Perkins, #NFDB
263:Freedom solutions - cross-state insurers; health cooperatives. ~ Jim DeMint, #NFDB
264:I couldn't worry about anyone else but myself and my health. ~ Derrick Rose, #NFDB
265:Investing in health will produce enormous benefits. ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland, #NFDB
266:I wish you health, and more than wealth, I wish you love ~ Rachael Yamagata, #NFDB
267:I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health. ~ Nelson Algren, #NFDB
268:Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean. ~ Nainoa Thompson, #NFDB
269:Mark Nathan Cohen, whose Health and the Rise of Civilization ~ Angus Deaton, #NFDB
270:Mental health courts exist because the system has failed. ~ E Fuller Torrey, #NFDB
271:Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis. ~ Jack Nicholson, #NFDB
272:My nutrition choices are for my health, not to lose weight. ~ Suzanne Whang, #NFDB
273:Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
274:The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, #NFDB
275:Uruz Meaning: The Aurochs, Health, Wisdom, Vital Strength ~ Eoghan Odinsson, #NFDB
276:Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
277:All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care. ~ Newt Gingrich, #NFDB
278:Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
279:Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. ~ James Allen, #NFDB
280:For health-care alternative, GOP looks to Dr. Copy and Dr. Paste ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
281:Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased. ~ Shirley Chisholm, #NFDB
282:Health will improve almost at once when worrying ends. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
283:It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health. ~ Terry Eagleton, #NFDB
284:My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes ~ Lewis Black, #NFDB
285:My Own Hunt for Health" - Reading Along with Author Heather Abel ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
286:No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
287:Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
288:The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
289:The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, #NFDB
290:Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. ~ Buddha#buddha, #NFDB
291:Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right. ~ Julio Frenk, #NFDB
292:Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
293:I allow the healing power in my body to manifest perfect health. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
294:I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do. ~ Elizabeth Emken, #NFDB
295:I'm probably the worst person for 'Men's Health' to interview. ~ Jamie Dornan, #NFDB
296:It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid. ~ Phil Bredesen, #NFDB
297:Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems. ~ William Foege, #NFDB
298:The Anti-christ of mental health and emotional maturity. ~ Augusten Burroughs, #NFDB
299:The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom. ~ Maimonides, #NFDB
300:The only thing worse than bad health, is a bad name. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
301:There's a very close tie between good health and good education. ~ Laura Bush, #NFDB
302:Though health care providers should prioritize the care of women, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
303:Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
304:Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
305:Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
306:Every human being is the author of its own health or disease, ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
307:Health to me is an overall mind, body, and kind of spirit thing. ~ LeAnn Rimes, #NFDB
308:I am a health nut and only do things that are good for my body. ~ Miranda Kerr, #NFDB
309:I think emotional health is a big contributor to physical health. ~ April Rose, #NFDB
310:People use so much more health care when they live longer. ~ Michael Bloomberg, #NFDB
311:Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
312:The medical establishment has become the major threat to health. ~ Ivan Illich, #NFDB
313:The time is now for Congress to address health care in America. ~ John Conyers, #NFDB
314:True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self. ~ Immortal Technique, #NFDB
315:We are the short of people that make health insurance popular. ~ Terry Sawchuk, #NFDB
316:Bikram Yoga will give you 'The Key to the Kingdom of Health' ~ Bikram Choudhury, #NFDB
317:Compassion and kindness it turned out, was good for your health. ~ James R Doty, #NFDB
318:Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. ~ Quentin Crisp, #NFDB
319:Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body. ~ Plato, #NFDB
320:If you really want to turn your health around, start juicing today. ~ Kris Carr, #NFDB
321:I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is. ~ Eric Massa, #NFDB
322:It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society. ~ Johann Hari, #NFDB
323:Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
324:The entire health industry lies about what things cost to make, ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
325:The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. ~ Cyril Connolly, #NFDB
326:Frankly, health care and politics are "inextricably intertwined." ~ Angela Braly, #NFDB
327:Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
328:Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
329:Health and spirits can only belong unalloyed to the selfish man—the ~ John Keats, #NFDB
330:Health is actually the foundational tool to help us live the life. ~ Hill Harper, #NFDB
331:I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease. ~ David Agus, #NFDB
332:Regular chiropractic adjustments go hand in hand with good health. ~ Peter Fonda, #NFDB
333:Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted. ~ Jean Paul, #NFDB
334:[T]here is nothing like a cheerful mind to keep the body in health. ~ Anne Bront, #NFDB
335:Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
336:What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
337:Women can't be charged more than men for our health insurance. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
338:A woman's body image is absolutely paramount to her health. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
339:By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
340:Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more. ~ Pablo Picasso, #NFDB
341:Enya, patron saint of alternative health clinics around the world. ~ Jenn Bennett, #NFDB
342:Everything in food works together to create health or disease. ~ T Colin Campbell, #NFDB
343:Health and well-being are the natural state of the body and mind. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
344:He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
345:I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues. ~ Jeb Bush, #NFDB
346:I wanted to show that your health is more important than your hair. ~ Joan Lunden, #NFDB
347:I would be the best for women, the best for women's health issues. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
348:Let me be, he said. Despair is the health of the damned. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
349:Money is not everything, but it is better than having one's health. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
350:My health is important, so I learn everything I can about nutrition. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
351:No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
352:People like Congress more than their health insurance companies. ~ Joshua Kushner, #NFDB
353:Rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
354:So much for Obama's promise of 'quality, affordable health care.' ~ Deroy Murdock, #NFDB
355:The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed. ~ Jami Gertz, #NFDB
356:The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
357:The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible. ~ Albert Howard, #NFDB
358:Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation. ~ Edward Norton, #NFDB
359:We're all alive. We're all health. These are the good times. ~ Susan Beth Pfeffer, #NFDB
360:Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
361:For so many reasons, this approach to mental health has to change. ~ Bryony Gordon, #NFDB
362:Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB
363:He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
364:Homelessness is frequently met with many mental health challenges. ~ Asa Don Brown, #NFDB
365:If I had my way, I'd make health catching instead of disease. ~ Robert G Ingersoll, #NFDB
366:If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
367:I wanna give great health care at a much lower cost than Obamacare. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
368:No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
369:...the problem is that giving too many fucks is bad for your health. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
370:We're gonna have a much better health care plan at much less money. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
371:Women in America... cannot trust Mitt Romney to protect our health. ~ Nancy Keenan, #NFDB
372:Your health is dependent on the amount of nutrients in your diet. I ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
373:2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America. ~ Dennis Kucinich, #NFDB
374:Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Our goal should be health and stamina. ~ Emme, #NFDB
375:Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
376:Health can be disrupted so easily by the habits of modern life. ~ Kulreet Chaudhary, #NFDB
377:Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
378:Health is the ability to realize our avowed and unavowed dreams. ~ Mosh Feldenkrais, #NFDB
379:Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. ~ John Henry Newman, #NFDB
380:hope in a variety of things—wealth, power, health, medical treatments ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
381:I’m doing boy detox. Like a diet, only for my emotional health. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
382:I'm not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body. ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
383:Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
384:Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
385:Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
386:Remember, health trends never catch on because they’re effective. ~ Anthony William, #NFDB
387:So much depends on our health, and we tend to take it so for granted. ~ Achy Obejas, #NFDB
388:The body creates health daily. It is inherently self-healing. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
389:There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
390:We are bullish on the health benefits, but they have to bring value. ~ Steve Miller, #NFDB
391:What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
392:When it comes to health, diet is the Queen, but exercise is the King ~ Jack LaLanne, #NFDB
393:You cannot buy your health; you must earn it through healthy living. ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
394:You can tell a man’s health by the strength of his morning piss. ~ Georgia Le Carre, #NFDB
395:After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health. ~ Yoko Ono, #NFDB
396:Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
397:Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
398:I am all about health and to me size is not what defines your health. ~ Teri Hatcher, #NFDB
399:I am passionate about talking to women about their breast health. ~ Elizabeth Hurley, #NFDB
400:I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
401:I removed all the blue ones, since they seem detrimental to your health. ~ Jo Watson, #NFDB
402:It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
403:I've ruined my eyes, I've ruined my health from my studiousness! ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
404:Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important. ~ Allan Lokos, #NFDB
405:Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. ~ Thomas Dekker, #NFDB
406:Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
407:The best activities for your health are pumping and humping. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, #NFDB
408:There are gender health differences, and we need to know what they are. ~ Laura Bush, #NFDB
409:The secret gives you anything you want; happiness, health, and wealth. ~ Bob Proctor, #NFDB
410:The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market. ~ Leroy Hood, #NFDB
411:When it comes to health, diet is the Queen, but exercise is the King. ~ Jack LaLanne, #NFDB
412:All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz, #NFDB
413:FACT: Nothing in Obamacare forces people out of their health plans. ~ Valerie Jarrett, #NFDB
414:God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
415:I always told you eating vegetables were bad for my health,” I tease. ~ Jennifer Foor, #NFDB
416:I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all. ~ Kathleen Turner, #NFDB
417:If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
418:If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
419:Jeremiah 30:17: I will restore health to you, and heal you of your wounds ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
420:Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
421:My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health. ~ Maurice Sendak, #NFDB
422:Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health ~ Nicholas D Kristof, #NFDB
423:On health care, your freedom to choose your own doctor, without Obamacare. ~ Ted Cruz, #NFDB
424:The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
425:Wine we need for health, and the health we need to drink vodka. ~ Viktor Chernomyrdin, #NFDB
426:All health begins with how we perceive ourselves and our bodies. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
427:As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
428:A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. ~ Hippocrates, #NFDB
429:Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health. ~ Arthur Caplan, #NFDB
430:Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
431:Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. ~ T Colin Campbell, #NFDB
432:Good health makes a lot of sense, but it does not make a lot of dollars. ~ Andrew Saul, #NFDB
433:Good sex is good for your health. Great sex is great for your health. ~ Tassa Desalada, #NFDB
434:Health is our culture; anything that interferes with it is our bondage. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
435:My Dad taught me that good health is all about living in gratitude. ~ Mariska Hargitay, #NFDB
436:One of the fastest ways to improve your health is to eat slowly. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
437:Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
438:People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care. ~ Mike Conaway, #NFDB
439:Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #NFDB
440:the problem is that giving too many fucks is bad for your mental health. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
441:The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. ~ Richard Simmons, #NFDB
442:There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
443:Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency. ~ Michael Marmot, #NFDB
444:We really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in Indiana. ~ Mike Pence, #NFDB
445:When women take care of their health they become their own best friend. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
446:Your health is not a debt you just cancel. The body collects, Camille. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
447:A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health. ~ Kate Middleton, #NFDB
448:A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
449:All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care. ~ Christopher Dodd, #NFDB
450:An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health. ~ Manly Hall, #NFDB
451:Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health. ~ Stephen Mitchell, #NFDB
452:FOLK SAYING: “Your health comes first; you can always hang yourself later. ~ Leo Rosten, #NFDB
453:Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down. ~ Phyllis Diller, #NFDB
454:I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
455:I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do. ~ Levon Helm, #NFDB
456:I truly believe that the boredom of illness is parlous to one's health ~ Tyne O Connell, #NFDB
457:It’s not just lifespan that varies with free-radical leak, health span does ~ Nick Lane, #NFDB
458:Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies. ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
459:The invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans. ~ Lou Dobbs, #NFDB
460:There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
461:They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
462:To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
463:Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
464:All I want to do, if you've already got health care, is lower your costs. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
465:America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. ~ Walter Cronkite, #NFDB
466:Any love is already a little bit of health, a rest in the madness. ~ Jo o Guimar es Rosa, #NFDB
467:As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days. ~ Frederic Chopin, #NFDB
468:being able to feel safe with other people defines mental health; ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
469:Exercise freaks...are the ones putting stress on the health care system. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
470:Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
471:How most consumers collect and interpret health information has changed. ~ James Heywood, #NFDB
472:I can't stop working. The health of the nation depends on it. ~ Manto Tshabalala Msimang, #NFDB
473:If we discern the Lord’s body, we will walk in His health and wholeness. ~ Joseph Prince, #NFDB
474:If we take care of our mental health like our dental health; we'll be ok. ~ Howie Mandel, #NFDB
475:In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB
476:I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy. ~ Tab Hunter, #NFDB
477:Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
478:One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
479:There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health. ~ C Everett Koop, #NFDB
480:We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness. ~ Jonathan Haidt, #NFDB
481:You help someone's health, and you prevent them from infecting others. ~ Anthony S Fauci, #NFDB
482:but things like long life ’n’ good health, ’n’ passin’ six-weeks tests . . . ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
483:Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong. ~ Jorge Cruise, #NFDB
484:For what you call restoration to health Is only incubation of another malady. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
485:Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
486:Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. ~ Saint John Henry Newman, #NFDB
487:If you’re going to splurge on anything this year, make it your health. ~ Brendon Burchard, #NFDB
488:I give a portion of my time to helping others. It is good for my own health. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
489:I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life. ~ Penn Jillette, #NFDB
490:The good things in life are free, except for health care, and electricity. ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
491:The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
492:There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health. ~ Simonides of Ceos, #NFDB
493:We are more capable of turning around our global health crisis than we think. ~ Kris Carr, #NFDB
494:when man fell he did not lose his will but the health of his will. ~ Christopher W Morgan, #NFDB
495:Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health. ~ Saint Basil, #NFDB
496:If our mother so important to science, why can’t we get health insurance? ~ Rebecca Skloot, #NFDB
497:I needed to spend less time in alleys. They were never good for my health. ~ Dennis Liggio, #NFDB
498:is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~ Michael Finkel, #NFDB
499:I think health-wise, pro-wrestling is probably ten times worse for you than MMA. ~ CM Punk, #NFDB
500:Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life. ~ Mariel Hemingway, #NFDB
501:Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. ~ Dorothy Parker, #NFDB
502:Mr. Trump's a good man, but he doesn't know much about the health care system. ~ Joe Biden, #NFDB
503:Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth. ~ Harrison Ford, #NFDB
504:Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
505:Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
506:There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB
507:We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. ~ Lionel Trilling, #NFDB
508:health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
509:If you’re going to die on screen, you’ve got to be strong and in good health. ~ Greta Garbo, #NFDB
510:I lovingly do everything I can to assist my body in maintaining perfect health ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
511:In 2016, Utah passed a law declaring pornography a “public health crisis, ~ Jaclyn Friedman, #NFDB
512:In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
513:It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength. ~ James F Cooper, #NFDB
514:Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have. ~ Phyllis Diller, #NFDB
515:Take care of your morals first, your health next, and finally your studies. ~ Edmund Morris, #NFDB
516:The pregnant body suggests a story we think we know: health, love, happiness. ~ Belle Boggs, #NFDB
517:There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit. ~ Michael Moore, #NFDB
518:The truth is people who worship health cannot remain healthy on the point. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
519:We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
520:Why do the health of the body and the health of the earth decline together? ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
521:You can’t trash and pollute your body and expect to have perfect health. ~ Charlotte Gerson, #NFDB
522:Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort. ~ Kelly McGonigal, #NFDB
523:Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
524:Every hour you spend on your rear end ... saps your energy and ruins your health. ~ Tom Rath, #NFDB
525:Every woman should be in control of the decisions that affect her own health. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
526:I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day. ~ Karen Carpenter, #NFDB
527:In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
528:It is a funny thing but you can actually see improved mental health in the eyes, ~ Lee Smith, #NFDB
529:It's such a gift in my life to be able to compete - to have the health. ~ Wladimir Klitschko, #NFDB
530:Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve. ~ Jim Jordan, #NFDB
531:Out of combat you will regenerate 10% of your total health every second. ~ Daniel Schinhofen, #NFDB
532:Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
533:Restaurants that have health-conscious consumers will pay attention to this. ~ Marion Nestle, #NFDB
534:The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100. ~ Joshua Kushner, #NFDB
535:...the problem is that giving too many fucks is
bad for your mental health. ~ Mark Manson,#NFDB
536:The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night. ~ Edward Irving, #NFDB
537:The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day. ~ Hippocrates, #NFDB
538:Wellth: a life exemplified by abundance, happiness, purpose, health, and joy. ~ Jason Wachob, #NFDB
539:What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world—and loses his health? ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
540:When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again. ~ Bobby Jindal, #NFDB
541:Yoga is the best tool for international peace, health, harmony and human dignity. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
542:24 Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
543:A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
544:Every era in history has needed, and will need, reproductive health services. ~ Lizz Winstead, #NFDB
545:female health issues stem from “denial of the self and rejecting femininity”; ~ Doreen Virtue, #NFDB
546:Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way. ~ Vishnudevananda Saraswati, #NFDB
547:I am always interested in working and fun things like health insurance. ~ Stephanie D Abruzzo, #NFDB
548:I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting. ~ Marya Hornbacher, #NFDB
549:Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
550:I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform. ~ Jim Renacci, #NFDB
551:It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~ Michael Finkel, #NFDB
552:I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
553:Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
wheelchair. ~ Dorothy Parker,#NFDB
554:Never affirm or repeat about your health what you do not wish to be true. ~ Ralph Waldo Trine, #NFDB
555:The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity. ~ Michael Moore, #NFDB
556:The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
557:When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health! ~ Leonid Andreyev, #NFDB
558:Fine, be a big dumb man about it. I’m only thinking of your health and well-being. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
559:Good health is not the absence of symptoms, it is the presence of peace. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
560:Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~ Redd Foxx, #NFDB
561:if you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly. ~ Alan Grayson, #NFDB
562:If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep your health insurance plan ~ Ron Fournier, #NFDB
563:I'm bad for your health, like puttin' a pistol up to your face and blastin' yourself. ~ Dr Dre, #NFDB
564:I need to take my fragile, wounded pride away and somehow nurse it back to health. ~ E L James, #NFDB
565:Ish #303 "It's a street food vendor! Stop asking for the health score rating. ~ Regina Griffin, #NFDB
566:It's never too late to take your heart health seriously and make it a priority. ~ Jennie Garth, #NFDB
567:My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
568:One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost. ~ Valerie Jarrett, #NFDB
569:The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
570:The suicide risk for mental health patients goes up during changes in medication. ~ Iris Chang, #NFDB
571:A lot of what we "know" about other nations' approach to health care is simply myth. ~ T R Reid, #NFDB
572:Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life. ~ Nancy Astor, #NFDB
573:But it's about health, not forcing my body to be something it's not meant to be. ~ Robyn Lawley, #NFDB
574:I believe in health care reform. I don't believe in the way this bill was passed. ~ Joe Manchin, #NFDB
575:It’s what all mothers want. Happiness, health, and a good life for our children. ~ Nancy Naigle, #NFDB
576:Love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
577:Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived. ~ Desiderius Erasmus, #NFDB
578:"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health." ~ Carl Jung, The Transcendent Function, #NFDB
579:Numerous studies have shown that your health risk is higher following a loss. ~ H Norman Wright, #NFDB
580:Sometimes it's dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream. ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
581:The main health hazard in the world today is people who don't love themselves. ~ Kinky Friedman, #NFDB
582:The moral: Money, position, health, handsomeness, and talent aren’t everything. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
583:The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
584:Where you have an uninterrupted state of health you cannot fail to have pleasure. ~ Thomas More, #NFDB
585:Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
586:Breathe in the smell of exhaust and body odor, breathe out your health and sanity. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
587:Don’t do that to me. Losing you would not be good for my mental health, get it? ~ James L Rubart, #NFDB
588:Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
589:If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it. ~ Kevin Drum, #NFDB
590:If we’re going to be friends with benefits, I want private health and dental.” Dear ~ Dan Ariely, #NFDB
591:If you don't have jobs, it's hard to have other things like health and education. ~ Michael Dell, #NFDB
592:I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns. ~ Sally Schneider, #NFDB
593:I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
594:It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
595:One of my concerns is that the health care not be as good as it can possibly be. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
596:Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
597:The health care problem is not solved in the white house, its solved in YOUR HOUSE ~ Tony Horton, #NFDB
598:The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
599:The last decision I made was my health when I had a heart attack when I was 51. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
600:There are tremendous benefits when employers improve mental health in the workplace. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
601:You can no more have too much self-esteem than you can have too much health. ~ Nathaniel Branden, #NFDB
602:1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both. ~ Ruby Wax, #NFDB
603:Feast and fast. It has been easy for me to maintain my weight loss and health since. ~ Jason Fung, #NFDB
604:For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
605:Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
606:Health food would seem healthier if the people that sold it looked less unhealthy. ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
607:Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
608:Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. ~ Franklin P Adams, #NFDB
609:I entered this Health Dojo because the war ended and life suddenly became precious. ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB
610:I know for a while again the health of self-forgetfulness.
Sabbaths 2000 V ~ Wendell Berry,#NFDB
611:In some cases we neglect our health, because we were never told about its value. ~ Sunday Adelaja, #NFDB
612:It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
613:It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it. ~ Roz Chast, #NFDB
614:It's critically important that people trust you during a public health crisis. ~ Richard E Besser, #NFDB
615:Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens. ~ Bill Hicks, #NFDB
616:Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit. ~ Harriet Martineau, #NFDB
617:Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
618:Not infrequently is health itself destroyed by overstimulating the mind (253). ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
619:Now I have enough money to travel wherever I want, but I haven't got the health. ~ Allen Ginsberg, #NFDB
620:People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like. ~ Laurence Sterne, #NFDB
621:Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
622:To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
623:Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
624:emotional conflict undermines physical health and absence of stress promotes health. ~ Diane Capri, #NFDB
625:Every day that you are aboard, son, defend your health with vigorous exercise. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
626:Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population. ~ Jose Ramos Horta, #NFDB
627:He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
628:In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
629:I think public health is kind of in a very sad state of affairs here in this country. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
630:Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
631:The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. —Oswald Chambers ~ John Bevere, #NFDB
632:the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it ! ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
633:The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk. ~ Tom Vilsack, #NFDB
634:The single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health. ~ Patrick Lencioni, #NFDB
635:We are free only when we no longer require health, however much we may prefer it. ~ Arthur W Frank, #NFDB
636:What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation. ~ Glenn Close, #NFDB
637:When you ask people what affects their wellbeing most, they think of health and wealth. ~ Tom Rath, #NFDB
638:Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview. ~ Helen Reddy, #NFDB
639:You don't know what the real problems of a health care system are until you get sick. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
640:Americans want to have what members of Congress have: guaranteed health coverage. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
641:An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia. ~ Ezekiel Emanuel, #NFDB
642:Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. ~ Robert Redford, #NFDB
643:Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
644:If you can eat 70 percent raw or introduce raw into your diet, it will help your health ~ Carol Alt, #NFDB
645:I’m considered a health nut amongst vampires. I usually feed only on vegetarians. ~ Johnny B Truant, #NFDB
646:Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health, and love. ~ H Jackson Brown Jr, #NFDB
647:Nobody’s as serious about health and fitness as me, and staying fit is my top priority. ~ Ray Lewis, #NFDB
648:One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention. ~ Anne Wojcicki, #NFDB
649:People being forced to get health care and the insurance companies making millions. ~ Lizz Winstead, #NFDB
650:Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love! Choose health! ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
651:She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes. ~ Jean Hanff Korelitz, #NFDB
652:The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans. ~ Nancy Pelosi, #NFDB
653:We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior. ~ David Platt, #NFDB
654:A drunk grows sober before a fool grows wise,” says my mother, more health to her. ~ Sholom Aleichem, #NFDB
655:But happiness is good health and a bad memory they say, and I am a happy, happy man. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
656:Gratitude is the great multiplier, so say thank you for your health every single day. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
657:Health is not just a physical phenomenon. We do not just have physical bodies. ~ Christopher Penczak, #NFDB
658:I think our veterans certainly deserve and have earned the best health care in the world. ~ Phil Roe, #NFDB
659:It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
660:I've never done a trendy diet or subscribed to a fashionable health fad in my life. ~ Matthew Hussey, #NFDB
661:Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
662:Mark Twain’s words: Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~ Alan Russell, #NFDB
663:Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
664:Our own body is the best health system we have-if we know how to listen to it. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
665:The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. —Oswald Chambers L ~ John Bevere, #NFDB
666:...the emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone hated. ~ Barry Hughart, #NFDB
667:There's no better policy in a society then pursuing a health and safety of its people. ~ Ralph Nader, #NFDB
668:To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration. ~ Robert Owen, #NFDB
669:Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life. ~ Joseph Joubert, #NFDB
670:We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. ~ Prince Philip, #NFDB
671:What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
672:Work and rest in the proper proportions are fundamental to health and productivity. ~ Ann Somerville, #NFDB
673:You can't be great if you don't feel great. Make exceptional health your #1 priority. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
674:Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line. ~ Melissa Etheridge, #NFDB
675:Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue. ~ Michael K Williams, #NFDB
676:Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
677:Good health is a crown on the head of a well person that only a sick person can see. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
678:Health is the greatest of blessings - with health and hope we should be content to live. ~ John Keats, #NFDB
679:I am very picky about my food, and I'm very health oriented, so I always try to cook. ~ Julie Gonzalo, #NFDB
680:I credit chiropractic care for maintaining my health to keep up the pace of my career. ~ Jane Russell, #NFDB
681:I didn't really care about my physical health; I only cared about what was on screen. ~ Nicole Kidman, #NFDB
682:In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
683:I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading. ~ Charles Barkley, #NFDB
684:I will certainly bring health and healing to it and will indeed heal them. Jeremiah 33:6 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
685:Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit. ~ Oleg Cassini, #NFDB
686:Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
687:My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health ~ Kyffin Williams, #NFDB
688:Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships. ~ Jane Velez Mitchell, #NFDB
689:The best way not to encounter Americas health care system is not to have to encounter it. ~ Don Lemon, #NFDB
690:The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician. ~ Abraham Verghese, #NFDB
691:The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
692:The power of a positive self-image plays a vital role in experiencing perfect health. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
693:The right to health care provides insurance against the misfortune of having bad genes. ~ Jean Tirole, #NFDB
694:True health is the strength to live, the strength to suffer, and the strength to die. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
695:What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
696:Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works. ~ Peter Shumlin, #NFDB
697:A boy who was such a threat to my mental health and happiness should not be so tall. ~ Jennifer Echols, #NFDB
698:Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent. ~ Joe Sacco, #NFDB
699:Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
700:Family is everything to me. Family and health are the two most important things to me. ~ Mehcad Brooks, #NFDB
701:God wants His people well, but it is up to us to make the decision to walk in health. ~ Marilyn Hickey, #NFDB
702:If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
703:I have always liked working "upstream" long before health problems hit the body. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
704:It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
705:I would've been able to write anything about mental-health crises had I not felt good. ~ Maria Bamford, #NFDB
706:Know the best and highest choices for health and more often choose those things. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
707:Maintain your health. Be joyful. Do not force yourself to do things you cannot do.”2 ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
708:My heart is a Latin American food stall and your love is a health inspector from Zurich. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
709:my own health legacy of New Guinea has been a year of malaria and a year of dysentery. ~ Jared Diamond, #NFDB
710:Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates. ~ Janusz Korwin Mikke, #NFDB
711:offer new prayers; pray for a sound mind and for good health, first of soul and then of body. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
712:Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health. ~ Ginnifer Goodwin, #NFDB
713:Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business. ~ Patrick Lencioni, #NFDB
714:Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women. ~ Paul Kagame, #NFDB
715:that there must be a cure for every disease. Health is natural, disease is unnatural. ~ Sidney Sheldon, #NFDB
716:This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
717:All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience. ~ Hosea Ballou, #NFDB
718:A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time—pills or stairs. —Joan Welsh ~ Mark Sisson, #NFDB
719:America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom. ~ Elliott Abrams, #NFDB
720:Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health. ~ Joan Jett, #NFDB
721:Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
722:Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good. ~ Jeff Bridges, #NFDB
723:Feelings provide us with a moment-to-moment perspective on the state of our health. ~ Ant nio R Dam sio, #NFDB
724:For she kept saying to herself, If I only touch His garment, I shall be restored to health. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
725:God’s power is the key to any transformational change in our lives, including our health. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
726:Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character. ~ Democritus, #NFDB
727:Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
728:How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
729:I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
730:I will restore health to you, and I will heal your wounds, says the Lord. —JEREMIAH 30:17 ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
731:The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train. ~ Juliette Drouet, #NFDB
732:The greatest danger to a church’s spiritual health is a pastor-centric church model. ~ Elizabeth Esther, #NFDB
733:The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today. ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
734:There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health. ~ Samuel R Delany, #NFDB
735:Two significant health challenges figured prominently ~ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, #NFDB
736:Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally. ~ John Green, #NFDB
737:Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. ~ Mahalia Jackson, #NFDB
738:Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn, #NFDB
739:I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law. ~ Paul Krugman, #NFDB
740:In a sick country every step to health is an insult to those who live on its sickness. ~ Bernard Malamud, #NFDB
741:I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better. ~ Daniel Johns, #NFDB
742:...love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs. ~ Naguib Mahfouz, #NFDB
743:Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
744:The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
745:The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products. ~ Marion Nestle, #NFDB
746:Unhealed trauma is behind our health, weight, addiction, sleep, and relationship issues. ~ Doreen Virtue, #NFDB
747:we need to make nutrition the central element of our health-care system. Furthermore, ~ T Colin Campbell, #NFDB
748:You clearly have an overabundance of testosterone in a way it’s harmful to your health. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
749:You must be sure that whatever health is brought to mankind it all comes from God. ~ Emma Curtis Hopkins, #NFDB
750:Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint." Markus Herz ~ Joanna Penn, #NFDB
751:Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
752:Ideally parentage should be a privilege of health, not a by-product of sexual agitation. Is ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
753:I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health. ~ Daniel Baldwin, #NFDB
754:If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room. ~ David Lehman, #NFDB
755:I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it. ~ Tipper Gore, #NFDB
756:In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
757:It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling. ~ Jonas Salk, #NFDB
758:I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health. ~ Sting, #NFDB
759:I will help women, because we have the women's health problems. We have a lot of problems. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
760:"Loving thoughts and actions are clearly beneficial for our physical and mental health." ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
761:My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. ~ Chiang Kai shek, #NFDB
762:Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
763:There's also way too much religion in the South to be consistent with good mental health. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
764:We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people. ~ Jay Rockefeller, #NFDB
765:18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
766:Fully repeal Obamacare and replace it with health savings accounts. And we can do that. ~ Hari Sreenivasan, #NFDB
767:Health care - we need health care for our people. We need a good - Obamacare is a disaster. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
768:Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ~ Buddha, #NFDB
769:He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
770:I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. ~ Giacomo Casanova, #NFDB
771:I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' ~ Lauren Bacall, #NFDB
772:If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
773:I have added a lot. There's some Vegas stuff and hotel stuff and a whole chunk on health. ~ Louie Anderson, #NFDB
774:I only wish my health issues to be open to the public in the hope that I can educate others. ~ Renee Sloan, #NFDB
775:It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
776:Just being alive is bad for the health," he replies. "It always ends in death sooner or later. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
777:Not making fun of fat people is good for their self-esteem but bad for their health. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
778:People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
779:Sometimes it is necessary that individuals are sacrificed for the the health of the whole. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
780:The health care is going to be less money, and we're going to have much better health care. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
781:The only way to truly reform health care is to reform the nature of competition itself. ~ Michael E Porter, #NFDB
782:We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
783:Why do you kids say you’re experimenting with drugs? You’re experimenting with ill health. ~ Bob Colacello, #NFDB
784:will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds,’ says the LORD” (Jeremiah 30:17). ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB
785:Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty. ~ Plutarch, #NFDB
786:Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
787:Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health... ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
788:Even though we all have genetic predispositions, our health and aging aren't predetermined. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
789:Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do. ~ Harrison Ford, #NFDB
790:I am very concerned about the environment and psychological health of this beautiful planet. ~ Cornel Wilde, #NFDB
791:I knew I wasn't the picture of health, but I didn't think I was headed for the last roundup. ~ Fannie Flagg, #NFDB
792:Inadequate nutrition can lead to terrible health consequences, both physical and emotional. ~ Vicki Escarra, #NFDB
793:In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider. ~ Benjamin Carson, #NFDB
794:I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health. ~ Jon Bon Jovi, #NFDB
795:It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. —KRISHNAMURTI ~ Ethan Nichtern, #NFDB
796:I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
797:Nap time over. Gonna go be active. Do it people!!! In the end all you have is your health. ~ Scott Eastwood, #NFDB
798:six factors: togetherness or sense of community, money, health, freedom, trust, and kindness. ~ Meik Wiking, #NFDB
799:[The Democrats'] vision for the future: socialized medicine and Washington-run health care. ~ Pete Sessions, #NFDB
800:The health of domestic animals ought to be as well cared for as the health of human beings. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
801:This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind. ~ Cyprian, #NFDB
802:Turkey was decaying; and only the knife might keep health in her. Loving the old ways steadily, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
803:What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward. ~ Huston Smith, #NFDB
804:You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
805:At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again. ~ Patricia McConnell, #NFDB
806:For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves. ~ Seneca the Elder, #NFDB
807:God has ordained the Holy Communion as a key channel of health and wholeness for His people. ~ Joseph Prince, #NFDB
808:I 1wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
809:Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people. ~ Phyllis Chesler, #NFDB
810:If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin, #NFDB
811:In a society that prioritizes man’s health, a cleaner is more important than a lawyer. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
812:Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. ~ Tom Harkin, #NFDB
813:Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly. ~ G Edward Griffin, #NFDB
814:One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure. ~ John M McHugh, #NFDB
815:Poor eating habits developed at an early age lead to a lifetime of real health consequences. ~ Richard Codey, #NFDB
816:The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health. ~ Stefan Molyneux, #NFDB
817:The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom. ~ Steve Forbes, #NFDB
818:To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
819:- but you must positively claim health, harmony, and True Place, if you really want those things. ~ Emmet Fox, #NFDB
820:Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems. ~ Merle Haggard, #NFDB
821:Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power. ~ Lee Strasberg, #NFDB
822:Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
823:I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it. ~ Britt Ekland, #NFDB
824:I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer, #NFDB
825:If I were you boys, I wouldn't talk or even think about women. It ain't good for your health. ~ Walter Huston, #NFDB
826:If you want health, wealth and happiness, the first step is to throw away your alarm clocks! ~ Tom Hodgkinson, #NFDB
827:I have a thorough understanding of nutrition, and I feed my body only foods that support health. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
828:I rarely ask people about their health, because at my age people will be happy to tell you. ~ William Shatner, #NFDB
829:Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
830:Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
831:Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people. ~ Clint Eastwood, #NFDB
832:This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption. ~ Jim Hightower, #NFDB
833:To put limits on the heart is not the place of the state, only to ensure health and prosperity. ~ Mary Calmes, #NFDB
834:Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
835:Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
836:Breathing is free medicine, and the daily practice of breath control leads to optimal health and ~ Mark Divine, #NFDB
837:By all means ask for abundance and health for you, but also ask for it to be given to everyone. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
838:Hate causes distress, potentially leading to mental and physical health problems. Adolescents ~ Graeme Simsion, #NFDB
839:Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people. ~ Graham Chapman, #NFDB
840:Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin. ~ Eugen Sandow, #NFDB
841:Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
842:If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
843:In fact, you can enjoy near-perfect health if you get a grip on how nature responds to your nature. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
844:It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
~ Aristotle,#NFDB
845:I value my health and my happiness. And I've realized exercise can give me both of those things. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
846:Justice is the loveliest and health is the best, but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
847:Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
848:Krishnamurti said, “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~ Katy Bowman, #NFDB
849:More health tips: Eat lots of fruits and vegetables. Get plenty of rest. And learn to duck. ~ Charles M Schulz, #NFDB
850:My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, #NFDB
851:One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
852:Please, I don't want anybody to think I'm starving, I'm not. My health is perfect, actually. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
853:The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented. ~ Eddie Bernice Johnson, #NFDB
854:There are wonderful things having to do with women's health. But not when it comes to abortion. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
855:Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health. ~ Aldo Leopold, #NFDB
856:Your health and well being should be your number one priority, nothing else is more important. ~ Robert Cheeke, #NFDB
857:Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation. ~ Ed Pastor, #NFDB
858:A respected health economist said that these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
859:Finance ministers must realize that the health budget can save them money if it's applied well. ~ Mary Robinson, #NFDB
860:Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836), #NFDB
861:Health lies -- implicitly -- in merging with something (matter) rather than nothing (vacuum). ~ Samuel R Delany, #NFDB
862:If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog. ~ Phil Gramm, #NFDB
863:I keep my work in perspective. I place my happiness, health, relationships, and joy above all else. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
864:I wish we weren`t fighting all the time to protect women`s rights, to protect women`s health. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
865:Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities. ~ Jim Gibbons, #NFDB
866:Some people do not afford a healthy diet and lifestyle because of their health insurance. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
867:The Lord has declared that He will restore me to health and heal my wounds. —JEREMIAH 30:17 (NIV) ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
868:The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
869:The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital. ~ Mark Hyman M D, #NFDB
870:The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family. ~ John F Kerry, #NFDB
871:The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
872:The time has come to give Americans the freedom to purchase health insurance across state lines. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
873:Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. ~ Og Mandino, #NFDB
874:We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
875:While the health benefits are many, yoga offers much more than just a way to exercise the body. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
876:Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal's physical health problems by listening to the animals. ~ Bernie Siegel, #NFDB
877:Dr. Faust is my personal physician, as well as being medical director of the Erebus Health System. ~ Vivian Shaw, #NFDB
878:Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind. ~ John Lubbock, #NFDB
879:Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
880:In 1905, the court ruled that states could enact compulsory laws to protect public health. ~ Shawn Lawrence Otto, #NFDB
881:It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” —J. Krishnamurti ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
882:I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation. ~ Jim DeMint, #NFDB
883:most of what we have come to call health care does not authentically and actually improve health. ~ Roger Jahnke, #NFDB
884:My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life. ~ Paul Cezanne, #NFDB
885:No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be. ~ Lindsey Graham, #NFDB
886:Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life. ~ Jackie Joyner Kersee, #NFDB
887:The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity. ~ Tom Rath, #NFDB
888:The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. ~ Tammy Baldwin, #NFDB
889:What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system. ~ Edward Kennedy, #NFDB
890:Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care. ~ Martha Plimpton, #NFDB
891:Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code. ~ Tom Frieden, #NFDB
892:Your thoughts and beliefs are the single most important indicator of your state of health. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
893:A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
894:Be glad that you have your health. Do not always be so concerned with money,” my father said. ~ Tess Uriza Holthe, #NFDB
895:Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved. ~ Melinda Gates, #NFDB
896:Disempowerment,” Michael told me, “is at the heart of poor health”—physical, mental, and emotional. ~ Johann Hari, #NFDB
897:Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak. ~ Margaret Chan, #NFDB
898:If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
899:I’m here to propose something that I believe too few of us realize: “Health” is our new “beauty myth. ~ Jes Baker, #NFDB
900:I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
901:It's easier and more cost effective to maintain good health, than to regain it once it's lost. ~ Kenneth H Cooper, #NFDB
902:Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
903:Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions. ~ Barbara Boxer, #NFDB
904:Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends. ~ Henrik Ibsen, #NFDB
905:More than anything else, being able to feel safe with other people defines mental health; ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
906:My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
907:Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness. ~ Susan Sontag, #NFDB
908:Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
909:That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu. ~ Lois Capps, #NFDB
910:the feeling of control—whether real or illusory—is one of the wellsprings of mental health. ~ Daniel Todd Gilbert, #NFDB
911:The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body. ~ Diogenes, #NFDB
912:The health of marriage and the health of society are bound together; as one goes, so goes the other. ~ Max Anders, #NFDB
913:The World Health Organization has pledged to make 2020–2030 the first ever Decade of Healthy Ageing. ~ Carl Honor, #NFDB
914:They concluded that social isolation is as dangerous for health as obesity, inactivity and smoking. ~ Jo Marchant, #NFDB
915:Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health. ~ Elisabeth Tova Bailey, #NFDB
916:We are invited to drink the the king's health."
To his good health or bad health? - Ash ~ Cinda Williams Chima,#NFDB
917:You still go to therapy?"
"Nah. I gave up years ago."
"Mental health ins't for everyone. ~ Jonathan Tropper,#NFDB
918:You still go to therapy?"
"Nah. I gave up years ago."
"Mental health isn't for everyone. ~ Jonathan Tropper,#NFDB
919:A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
920:A righteous man cares about his animal's health, l but even the merciful acts of the wicked are cruel. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
921:Don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign they have nothing valuable to say about your health. ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
922:Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost. ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
923:Even in this high-tech age, the low-tech plant continues to be the key to nutrition and health. ~ Jack Weatherford, #NFDB
924:Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
925:[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton, #NFDB
926:Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
927:Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
928:I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease. ~ David Agus, #NFDB
929:I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits. ~ Charles Kuralt, #NFDB
930:Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health. ~ Horace, #NFDB
931:Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. ~ Plutarch, #NFDB
932:Nothing is worth your health. Nothing is wroth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
933:Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
934:Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival. ~ Richard Louv, #NFDB
935:The state of the health of the individual is equivalent to the state to the health of the colon. ~ Woody Harrelson, #NFDB
936:Two forms of fat that are vitally important for brain health are cholesterol and saturated fat. ~ David Perlmutter, #NFDB
937:Yoga has spread harmony between man and nature. It is a holistic approach to health and wellbeing. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
938:Your dollar cheeseburger isn't a dollar if you factor in what it's going to cost in health care. ~ Michael Specter, #NFDB
939:A vegan diet is one of the best things you can do for your health and the well being of our planet. ~ Robert Cheeke, #NFDB
940:Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
941:Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation. ~ Marc Andreessen, #NFDB
942:Health: thank the universe for your own healing. Laugh, stress free happiness will keep you healthy. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
943:If I feel sure of one thing, it is that this kind of “health” imperative is not moral. It is grooming. ~ Mark Greif, #NFDB
944:I like to say, “Nothing good happens accidently.” You can catch disease, but you cannot catch health. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
945:Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
946:I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
947:Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health. ~ Baruch Spinoza, #NFDB
948:I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health. ~ Tom Petty, #NFDB
949:It makes the idea of in sickness and in health that much more real to see it play out in front of you. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
950:No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body. ~ Mehmet Oz, #NFDB
951:Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
952:Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
953:Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities. ~ Juan Manuel Santos, #NFDB
954:The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
955:The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind. ~ Bessel van der Kolk, #NFDB
956:We have federal standards for everything in America except the one thing you need most - your health. ~ Steve Kagen, #NFDB
957:What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? ~ Adam Smith, #NFDB
958:Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
959:A healthy choice for your overall health and well-being is one of a happy and positive disposition. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
960:And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own. ~ Xenophon, #NFDB
961:And they hated her for her pride —But she grew in feeble health, And they love her —that she died. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
962:As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
963:A Silencer wouldn’t nurse me back to health—much less give me nicknames and play snuggles in the dark. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
964:as Krishnamurti said, “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~ Jay Michaelson, #NFDB
965:A WISE WOMAN TAKES CARE OF HER EMOTIONAL HEALTH, her spiritual health, and her intellectual growth. ~ Sally Clarkson, #NFDB
966:But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
967:But not for Jefferson. “I view cities as pestilent to the morals, the health, and the liberation of man, ~ Jay Winik, #NFDB
968:Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
969:drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. ~ Steven D Levitt, #NFDB
970:Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. ~ Ivan Illich, #NFDB
971:If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. ~ John Locke, #NFDB
972:I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children. ~ Carlos Delgado, #NFDB
973:I'm on a health kick! I'm drawn to cheeseburgers, so I've got to just try and keep it on an even keel. ~ Emily Blunt, #NFDB
974:It was possible that he was making some progress in his mental health condition by seeing me. ~ Holly Goldberg Sloan, #NFDB
975:Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one. ~ Karl A Menninger, #NFDB
976:Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases. ~ William Harvey, #NFDB
977:One of the things I've done personally is bring my girlfriends into my health and fitness journeys. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
978:President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding. ~ Liya Kebede, #NFDB
979:We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
980:What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them? ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
981:With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county ~ Bob Filner, #NFDB
982:Women should not need a permission slip from government to take care of their own reproductive health. ~ Nina Turner, #NFDB
983:You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that. ~ Peter Shilton, #NFDB
984:As far as physical health goes, I try to eat in a balanced way, sleep enough, and stay active. ~ Maria Canals Barrera, #NFDB
985:A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health. ~ Roger Scruton, #NFDB
986:A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
987:But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
988:Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
989:Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
990:Everything came with a cost. Everyone sacrificed something to move forward. Time, energy, money, health. ~ Cosimo Yap, #NFDB
991:Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone. ~ Grace Jones, #NFDB
992:For the big drugstore chains, a new mission' Health services — at lower cost — are a vital need, they say ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
993:Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. —Buddha ~ Kimberly Snyder, #NFDB
994:Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
995:I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system. ~ Judd Gregg, #NFDB
996:If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
997:It’s odd how a dog roaming around is a health code violation but serving fried death on a stick isn’t. ~ Kevin Hearne, #NFDB
998:Pain is an opinion on the organism’s state of health rather than a mere reflexive response to injury. ~ Norman Doidge, #NFDB
999:Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love! Choose health! Choose happiness! ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
1000:Republicans do actually care about health care. They just don't care about government-run health care. ~ Greg Gutfeld, #NFDB
1001:Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1002:The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really? ~ Lewis Black, #NFDB
1003:The holiness of justice is the health of the soul; it is more precious than heaps ol gold and silver. ~ Ecclesiasucus, #NFDB
1004:The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. ~ Philip Sidney, #NFDB
1005:The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others. ~ C Everett Koop, #NFDB
1006:The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine. ~ Hippocrates, #NFDB
1007:You can’t put a price on health, and any price you could put on it would be low compared to what you get, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1008:America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody. ~ Don King, #NFDB
1009:Bill Murray is on the show tonight. Next week I'll be Goggling 'foods that improve prostate health.' ~ David Letterman, #NFDB
1010:But don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health. ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
1011:Complaining is the absolute worst possible thing you could do for your health or your wealth. The worst! ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
1012:greatest concern is not for your health, or temporal welfare, but for the good of your soul. Though ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB
1013:Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies. ~ Michael Marmot, #NFDB
1014:Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself. ~ Anderson Cooper, #NFDB
1015:If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right? ~ Paul Farmer, #NFDB
1016:If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care. ~ Andrew Saul, #NFDB
1017:I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals. ~ Bonnie Blair, #NFDB
1018:I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food. ~ Brett Dennen, #NFDB
1019:I was having health issues all my life. You're just not conditioned to think of them as health issues. ~ Robin Quivers, #NFDB
1020:I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care. ~ Ed Pastor, #NFDB
1021:JEREMIAH 30:17: God will restore your health. For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1022:Jiddu Krishnamurti, 26 who explained: “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society. ~ Johann Hari, #NFDB
1023:Lord, thank You that my health, my finances, my dreams, and my future are in Your frame. I am protected. ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
1024:Most partners do not have sex frequently enough for optimum mental, physical, and emotional health. ~ Diana Richardson, #NFDB
1025:Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt. ~ Plato, #NFDB
1026:Nutrition is the key to good health.” “Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which to die. ~ Kathy Reichs, #NFDB
1027:Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
1028:Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs. ~ John Baldacci, #NFDB
1029:Our health is what we make of it - give it attention and it improves, give it none and it subsides. ~ John F Demartini, #NFDB
1030:Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation. ~ Carl Levin, #NFDB
1031:The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health. ~ Michael Marmot, #NFDB
1032:There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance. ~ Patrick Swayze, #NFDB
1033:Your malice and your striving to seek revenge are much more harmful to your health than they are to your antagonist. ~, #NFDB
1034:At the most basic level, competition in health care must take place where value is actually created. ~ Michael E Porter, #NFDB
1035:HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
1036:I could worry about his health but somehow not about my own. We throw ourselves away a little each day. ~ Padma Lakshmi, #NFDB
1037:I hope the new health care exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act will provide some help. ~ Laurence Kotlikoff, #NFDB
1038:I learned to stop saying yes because I then have to back out. I've been trying to prioritize my health. ~ Laura Benanti, #NFDB
1039:In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
1040:In fact, there is clear evidence that cooking in ‘vegetable’ oils is likely to be very bad for our health. ~ Tim Noakes, #NFDB
1041:I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. ~ Bell Hooks, #NFDB
1042:Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with. ~ Adam Ant, #NFDB
1043:Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
1044:Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1045:Once the federal government has control of your health care, that means they can dictate your behavior. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
1046:Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
1047:Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. ~ Nathaniel Branden, #NFDB
1048:Somehow, we have gotten off track from the basics of health and spirituality, and we get in our own way. ~ Alice McCall, #NFDB
1049:The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children. ~ Herbert Hoover, #NFDB
1050:They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here? ~ Paul Harvey, #NFDB
1051:Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient. ~ Michael Porter, #NFDB
1052:We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families. ~ Dan Lipinski, #NFDB
1053:We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
1054:When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa. ~ Jonathan Gruber, #NFDB
1055:Wouldn't it be great if health-care plans included a list of Buddhist monks among the network providers? ~ Regina Brett, #NFDB
1056:your absence, but with my cousin in such very poor health still, I feel I cannot leave her, so…’ The old ~ Penny Jordan, #NFDB
1057:Your health, wealth, position, performance, ability and attitude are the results of your decisions. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1058:All I can say on women's issues and women's health issues, there will be nobody better than Donald Trump. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1059:All in all, in-person social interaction is much better for mental health than electronic communication. ~ Jean M Twenge, #NFDB
1060:And Cézanne, in the last letter he wrote, laments his poor health, and adds: “Je continue donc mes études. ~ Chaim Potok, #NFDB
1061:As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. ~ G K Chesterton, Orthodoxy, #NFDB
1062:Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. ~ John Locke, #NFDB
1063:Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace and good will and wonders will happen in your ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
1064:By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs, and improve care ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1065:Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised ~ Dick Durbin, #NFDB
1066:He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1067:I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life. ~ Suzy Nakamura, #NFDB
1068:I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are. ~ Alan Thicke, #NFDB
1069:I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro, #NFDB
1070:I think that if everyone did at least embrace a more plant-centered diet, it would improve public health. ~ Bryant Terry, #NFDB
1071:It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing. ~ Peter Garrett, #NFDB
1072:It is wisdom, worldly wisdom, to administer even health to oneself for a long time in small doses. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1073:She looked a lot better. In fact, she shimmered with health, as if someone had injected her with glitter. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1074:The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool. ~ Dave Grohl, #NFDB
1075:There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1076:There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1077:Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
1078:Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures. ~ Anthony S Fauci, #NFDB
1079:To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1080:What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion. ~ Geraldine Ferraro, #NFDB
1081:When it comes to health and well-being, regular exercise is about as close to a magic potion as you can get. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1082:You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you dont have your health, you have nothing. ~ Steven Adler, #NFDB
1083:Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care. ~ Rahm Emanuel, #NFDB
1084:But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1085:can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience? ~ Russ Roberts, #NFDB
1086:Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance. ~ William Levada, #NFDB
1087:Health is a habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1088:I am personally overseeing changes that include the establishment of a global health emergency workforce. ~ Margaret Chan, #NFDB
1089:I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
1090:In any spiritual undertaking, God's first order of business is to see to the spiritual health of His people. ~ Max Anders, #NFDB
1091:No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country. ~ Liya Kebede, #NFDB
1092:Now I know men are different and that all life is divided and that only in division is there true health. ~ Ralph Ellison, #NFDB
1093:Passion is an unmatched fuel. Add being happy to that and you have a wonderful formula for good health. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk, #NFDB
1094:Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care. ~ Phil Bredesen, #NFDB
1095:Start valuing the health benefits and energy consequences of the foods we eat as much or more than the taste. ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
1096:Surgeon general's job is to protect, promote and advance the health, safety and security of the nation. ~ Richard Carmona, #NFDB
1097:The use of love is to heal. When it flows without effort from the depth of the Self, love creates health. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1098:Voices in the darkness scream away my mental health, can I ask a question to help me save me from myself? ~ Ozzy Osbourne, #NFDB
1099:We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth. ~ Hippocrates, #NFDB
1100:What exactly does that expression mean, 'friends with benefits'? Does he provide her with health insurance? ~ Chuck Lorre, #NFDB
1101:What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat ~ Satish Kumar, #NFDB
1102:When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus ~ David Platt, #NFDB
1103:(As Michael Pollan says, "a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it's not really food") ~ Mark Bittman, #NFDB
1104:Believing you’re the only person with their head on straight is usually not a sign of good mental health. ~ Sylvain Neuvel, #NFDB
1105:Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there. ~ Melanie Fiona, #NFDB
1106:Disempowerment," Michael [Marmot] told me, "is at the heart of poor health"—physical, mental, and emotional. ~ Johann Hari, #NFDB
1107:Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
1108:I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health. ~ Robert Southwell, #NFDB
1109:Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. ~ Ric Keller, #NFDB
1110:I stay healthy by dealing with things! Seriously, emotional and spiritual health is most important. ~ Maria Canals Barrera, #NFDB
1111:I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi. ~ Paul Farmer, #NFDB
1112:so that even a Woman in reasonable health can journey several furlongs northward without much difficulty— ~ Edwin A Abbott, #NFDB
1113:The best bet for overall health is to significantly limit or eliminate all types of meat—red and white. Dr. ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
1114:The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should. ~ Samuel Wilson, #NFDB
1115:The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1116:The third area of choice is personal self-care—the practice of self-healing and health enhancement methods. ~ Roger Jahnke, #NFDB
1117:The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else. ~ Thomas Szasz, #NFDB
1118:America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention. ~ Tom Harkin, #NFDB
1119:Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
1120:But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing. ~ Vincent Van Gogh, #NFDB
1121:Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged. ~ Felicity Huffman, #NFDB
1122:Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance. ~ Dennis Kucinich, #NFDB
1123:Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1124:[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1125:Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
1126:He was as completely happy as only a fluffy-minded old man with excellent health and a large income can be. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
1127:How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness? ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
1128:Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz, #NFDB
1129:I could worry about his health but somehow not about my own. We throw ourselves away a little each day. Dr. ~ Padma Lakshmi, #NFDB
1130:It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise. ~ Brady Anderson, #NFDB
1131:Mental health has commonly been called conscience, instinct, wisdom, common sense, or the inner voice. We ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
1132:Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
1133:The absolute immunity can only come with the supramental change. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Illness and Health, #NFDB
1134:The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1135:The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us. ~ Shelley Berman, #NFDB
1136:The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
1137:The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically. ~ Frans de Waal, #NFDB
1138:three pillars of health that changed everything for me: right nutrition, right exercise, and right sleep. ~ Shawn Stevenson, #NFDB
1139:Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had. ~ Jim Yong Kim, #NFDB
1140:We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1141:we need to approach drug addiction not as a criminal justice situation but more as a public health situation. ~ Johann Hari, #NFDB
1142:We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth. ~ Liya Kebede, #NFDB
1143:Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
1144:What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care]. ~ Stephen Harper, #NFDB
1145:Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health. ~ Robert Bateman, #NFDB
1146:Africa has 1.3 percent of the world’s health workers caring for 25 percent of the global disease burden. ~ Peter H Diamandis, #NFDB
1147:A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1148:... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor. ~ Richard G Wilkinson, #NFDB
1149:GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play ~ Robert Kennedy, #NFDB
1150:Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
1151:Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time ~ C Everett Koop, #NFDB
1152:I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care. ~ Cecile Richards, #NFDB
1153:I don't dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it's just a number. ~ Nola Ochs, #NFDB
1154:Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them. ~ Denis Johnson, #NFDB
1155:Love, light & blessings be On this day I wish to say 'Health & Happiness to come your way' Happy Birthday ~ Billie Jean King, #NFDB
1156:The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness. ~ Walter Raleigh, #NFDB
1157:The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's. ~ Warren Cuccurullo, #NFDB
1158:The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1159:The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right. ~ Elizabeth Holmes, #NFDB
1160:The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
1161:We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction. ~ Joseph Lowery, #NFDB
1162:What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience? ~ Adam Smith, #NFDB
1163:When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself. ~ Francisco Varela, #NFDB
1164:When treatment for health issues is conducted like a military operation, our body-minds become a battlefield. ~ Heidi DuPree, #NFDB
1165:You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1166:A music attends the things of the earth. To sense that music is to be near the possibility of health and joy. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
1167:Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion. ~ Emmet Fox, #NFDB
1168:Don't use all your health to chase after wealth, only to spend all your wealth later to get back your health. ~ Joseph Prince, #NFDB
1169:Everyone at health food stores and juice bars looked pale and sickly. Healthy-looking people ate at McDonald's. ~ Jason Starr, #NFDB
1170:Food is the most important influence on your health. It is even more important than your thoughts and emotions. ~ David Wolfe, #NFDB
1171:For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism. ~ Walter Rudolf Hess, #NFDB
1172:Health note: My stomach is getting out of bounds; the seams of my vendor's smock are creaking ominously. ~ John Kennedy Toole, #NFDB
1173:I'm passionate about health, nutrition, fitness, and inspiring people to live a healthy and active lifestyle. ~ Nastia Liukin, #NFDB
1174:It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest. ~ Heraclitus, #NFDB
1175:It is much more beneficial to your health if you feel your way through life than think your way through life. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1176:I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1177:I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this. ~ Michael Graves, #NFDB
1178:Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health. ~ Avicenna, #NFDB
1179:Medicine’s focus is narrow. Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
1180:Take any problem in life and it will fall under one of three categories... money, health or relationships. ~ John Harricharan, #NFDB
1181:The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired. ~ Hippocrates, #NFDB
1182:The program significantly improved the academic achievement of the kids, but also the health of the volunteers. ~ Jo Marchant, #NFDB
1183:There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people. ~ Christine Gregoire, #NFDB
1184:The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles. ~ Placido Domingo, #NFDB
1185:We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health. ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
1186:What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
1187:Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take. ~ C Everett Koop, #NFDB
1188:As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable. ~ Jeanne Moreau, #NFDB
1189:Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
1190:I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care ~ James Q Wilson, #NFDB
1191:I don’t believe in all this public-funded health care, we can’t afford it. If you want health care, you pay for it. ~ Rob Ford, #NFDB
1192:If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
1193:If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1194:I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health. ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
1195:In short, health is measured by the shock a person can take without his usual way of life being compromised ~ Mosh Feldenkrais, #NFDB
1196:Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap. ~ Tom Hodgkinson, #NFDB
1197:One burner represents your family, one is your friends, the third is your health, and the fourth is your work. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
1198:Our health is what we make of it - give it attention and it improves, give it none and it subsides. ~ John Frederick Demartini, #NFDB
1199:Sarge?’ ‘What?’ ‘I was thinkin’—’ ‘How many times I gotta tell you not to do that, son. Bad for your health. ~ Ian C Esslemont, #NFDB
1200:Slaveholders were willing to overwork pregnant slaves at the expense of the health of both mother and child. ~ Dorothy Roberts, #NFDB
1201:The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right. ~ Paul Farmer, #NFDB
1202:The sick were a ferocious lot. They’d walk right through you if they thought that health was on the other side. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
1203:Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health. ~ Jean Houston, #NFDB
1204:What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience? ~ Russ Roberts, #NFDB
1205:You embrace your body in your thought, and you should delineate upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness. ~ Mary Baker Eddy, #NFDB
1206:Your personal health is your greatest possession; the most significant foundation of any future you will have. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1207:Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so. ~ Tryon Edwards, #NFDB
1208:Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all? ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1209:embrace growth but pursue health—knowing that health is the vital prerequisite, cause, and sustainer of growth. ~ Robert Morris, #NFDB
1210:Fill your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and goodwill, and wonders will happen in your life. ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
1211:finance, family, society, physical, emotional and spiritual health. You have to consciously maintain a balance. ~ Rashmi Bansal, #NFDB
1212:Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
1213:Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks, #NFDB
1214:Guard your heart, mind and time. Those three things will determine the health of everything else in your life. ~ Andrena Sawyer, #NFDB
1215:Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution. ~ John Sculley, #NFDB
1216:I'm going to keep on keeping on as long as I've got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it. ~ Sharon Jones, #NFDB
1217:I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician. ~ Paul Bley, #NFDB
1218:I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder. ~ Leighton Meester, #NFDB
1219:Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing. ~ Jed Diamond, #NFDB
1220:Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it. ~ Bryan Cranston, #NFDB
1221:Optimism, that is healthy in its application, will inevitably result in better physical and emotional health. ~ Richard Bandler, #NFDB
1222:People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. ~ Laurence Sterne, #NFDB
1223:The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind. ~ Michael Marmot, #NFDB
1224:The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity. ~ David Wolfe, #NFDB
1225:The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
1226:The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington. ~ Arnold Kling, #NFDB
1227:There's no single more powerful or simpler daily practice to further your health and well being than breath work. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
1228:The role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president. ~ John McCain, #NFDB
1229:The value judgments we make determine our actions, and upon their validity rests our mental health and happiness. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
1230:To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
1231:Treasure the friendship you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. ~ Og Mandino, #NFDB
1232:Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions. ~ Lois Capps, #NFDB
1233:War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war. ~ Jimmy Carter, #NFDB
1234:We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves. ~ Joshua L Liebman, #NFDB
1235:We are so used to eating unhealthy food that we deem obsessed with health people who watch what they eat. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1236:We've got to provide additional help to small businesses so that they can afford to provide health insurance. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
1237:We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege. ~ John Lewis, #NFDB
1238:After waking up, I take my vitamins and eat fruit or, sometimes, bread with garlic, which is good for your health. ~ Jordi Molla, #NFDB
1239:An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
1240:As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
1241:Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life. ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
1242:By far the hardest decision I've had to manage [was about my health]. Because I had 51 years of doing it wrong. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1243:He was having a seizure of projectile vomiting. This was not considered a sign of good health in medical circles. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1244:Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
1245:I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it. ~ Michele Bachmann, #NFDB
1246:If [Donald Trump] is paid zero [taxes], that means zero for troops, zero for vets, zero for schools or health. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
1247:I learned that peace is prosperity and health is true wealth, and it is never too late to love yourself again. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
1248:I worked in a health food store once. A guy asked me, 'If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet? ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
1249:MIMI HAD ARRANGED A spot for Wei Jia in the children’s ward of the Peking University Health Center Number Three, ~ Peter Hessler, #NFDB
1250:Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health. ~ Julia Child, #NFDB
1251:Not everybody is going to run a marathon or do a triathlon. It's not necessary to do that to be in good health. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
1252:Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
1253:The whole idea that you can take a disease like this and exercise your way to health is foolishness. It is insane. ~ Paul Cheney, #NFDB
1254:Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peace and compassion. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
1255:You can build radiant health, success and happiness by the thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind. ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
1256:Check this video out - ~ The Mother's Grace for Wealth, Health, Happiness and Protection youtube.com/watch?v=TINc5O… via @youtube, #NFDB
1257:Friendships have profound effects on health, creating an impact that may be as significant as avoiding cigarettes. ~ Stacey Radin, #NFDB
1258:Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups. ~ Tom Allen, #NFDB
1259:I consider myself an expert on love, sex and health. Without health you can have very little of the other two. ~ Barbara Cartland, #NFDB
1260:I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit. ~ John Waters, #NFDB
1261:In my world, one doesn’t discuss mental health. One pretends life is lovely and suffers silently.” “It’s ~ Barbara Claypole White, #NFDB
1262:It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me. ~ Frank Carson, #NFDB
1263:Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health. ~ Barbara Johnson, #NFDB
1264:Mindfulness involves two key strategies for improving health: attention to context and attention to variability. ~ Ellen J Langer, #NFDB
1265:My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape. ~ Shirley MacLaine, #NFDB
1266:Obamacare is not about health care. Obamacare is about the expansion of government and the total loss of freedom. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
1267:Obamacare ruined and destroyed or set in motion the ruination and destruction of the American health care system. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
1268:Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1269:some men who live hard and in good health can’t believe sickness or weakness is anything but laziness, a sham. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1270:Spending on education and health consumes 10–15 percent of national income in all the developed countries today. ~ Thomas Piketty, #NFDB
1271:The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (1876), #NFDB
1272:The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1273:The underlining assumption of all the new laws is that women can't be trusted to make their own health decisions; ~ Willie Parker, #NFDB
1274:This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1275:When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
1276:You can change your health, you can change your relationships, you can change your income, you can change anything. ~ Bob Proctor, #NFDB
1277:America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken. ~ Mike Ferguson, #NFDB
1278:First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition—isn’t. ~ T Colin Campbell, #NFDB
1279:for every dollar spent on health care in America, ninety-five cents goes to treat a disease after it has occurred. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1280:He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
1281:I'm one of these people who's convinced myself that bacon and butter are health foods and I hope the hell I'm right. ~ Gary Taubes, #NFDB
1282:I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent. ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
1283:It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first. ~ Dennis Kucinich, #NFDB
1284:It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices. ~ Linda Lingle, #NFDB
1285:The first defining act of a modern, centralized public-health authority was to poison an entire urban population. ~ Steven Johnson, #NFDB
1286:The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1287:The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health. ~ Paul Farmer, #NFDB
1288:The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
1289:Time is the only thing we cannot replace, apart from our health and our lives. I resent wasting a moment of it. But ~ Felix Dennis, #NFDB
1290:We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city. ~ Michael Bloomberg, #NFDB
1291:We have to redesign the finances of the Quebec state to preserve what counts: education, health and families. ~ Philippe Couillard, #NFDB
1292:When the surgeon general’s report on smoking and health was published in 1964, it unleashed a decades-long ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
1293:Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard, #NFDB
1294:Broadly Americans agree that women need access to health care to prevent medical disasters and to prevent pregnancy. ~ Sandra Fluke, #NFDB
1295:buy american For health, environmental, and authenticity reasons, you are usually best off buying domestic seafood. ~ Larry Olmsted, #NFDB
1296:First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't. ~ T Colin Campbell, #NFDB
1297:Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1298:I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care. ~ Eric Cantor, #NFDB
1299:I don't support ObamaCare and see it as a step backward that entrenches the power of the private health care industry. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
1300:I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care. ~ John McCain, #NFDB
1301:I’m from the health department. You’ve heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella’s got enough typhoid to start his own colony. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
1302:I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it. ~ Ann Coulter, #NFDB
1303:Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
1304:I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
1305:[L]ibrarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people with mental health disorders, can make people nervous. ~ Ian Sansom, #NFDB
1306:Luxury is … to be able to take control of one’s life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful. ~ Shannon Ables, #NFDB
1307:Rather, spend more on health and education for poor people. This is not forced socialism but voluntary compassion. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1308:SNSD means the coming of the era of girls, it’s filled with hope. We wish to bring a generation of health and happiness. ~ Im Yoona, #NFDB
1309:The only secret to food combination is a balance of protein, carbs and fat - they all play a key role in our health. ~ Jorge Cruise, #NFDB
1310:The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
1311:We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor. ~ Manmohan Singh, #NFDB
1312:When I’m in normal health, I’m a Presbyterian, but just now I feel that even the wicked get worse than they deserve. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
1313:When the church is engaged in meaningful prayer, it becomes both the cause and the result of greater church health. ~ Thom S Rainer, #NFDB
1314:When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1315:When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all. ~ Augusten Burroughs, #NFDB
1316:Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1317:World Health Organization estimates that outdoor air pollution causes about 3.2 million deaths yearly worldwide.15 ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
1318:You have all the power you could possibly need to create a new reality - a reality of vibrant health and wellbeing. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1319:All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it. ~ Paracelsus, #NFDB
1320:Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life. The ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
1321:Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming. ~ Jeff Merkley, #NFDB
1322:Fat deposits around your waist are a greater health risk than extra fat in other places, such as the hips and thighs. ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
1323:Feel body as luxury-- as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always -- is health ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
1324:Fungibility, n. The tendency of everything to be completely interchangeable with money. Health, for instance. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
1325:Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles. ~ Horace Greeley, #NFDB
1326:Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
1327:(I debuted the Whole Health Cairn in a popular TEDx talk I gave in 2011 called “The Shocking Truth about Your Health. ~ Lissa Rankin, #NFDB
1328:If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is. ~ Alex Ferguson, #NFDB
1329:I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. ~ Audrey Hepburn, #NFDB
1330:In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth, health, or integrity. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
1331:I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle. ~ Mark Wahlberg, #NFDB
1332:Just got off the phone with my health care provider asking them to explain why my premium jumped up. No good answer! ~ Donna Brazile, #NFDB
1333:Let's fill our minds with thoughts of peace, courage, health, and hope, for "our life is what our thoughts make it." ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1334:Loving yourself is not antithetical to health, it is intrinsic to health. You can't take good care of a thing you hate. ~ Lindy West, #NFDB
1335:Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. ~ Patrick Henry, #NFDB
1336:sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day—Mother Nature’s best ~ Matthew Walker, #NFDB
1337:The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
1338:There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today. ~ Nevil Shute, #NFDB
1339:True health is only possible when we understand the unity of our minds, emotions, spirits and physical bodies. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
1340:What, then, would be the origin of tragedy? Perhaps joy, strength, overflowing health, overgreat fullness? And ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1341:When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
1342:All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish. ~ William James, #NFDB
1343:A renegade is someone who chooses the narrow way because it's the Jesus way . . . the way of life, health and growth. ~ Nelson Searcy, #NFDB
1344:Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. ~ Jean de la Bruyere, #NFDB
1345:Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit. ~ Sarah Palin, #NFDB
1346:Eliminating grains and sugars from your diet could be the number one most beneficial thing you ever do for your health! ~ Mark Sisson, #NFDB
1347:Health-wise there is nothing to worry about. Though I had gone through a surgery sometime ago, it was nothing serious. ~ Katrina Kaif, #NFDB
1348:I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care. ~ Ted Cruz, #NFDB
1349:I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves. ~ John F Kerry, #NFDB
1350:In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal. ~ Julia Child, #NFDB
1351:Is a lukewarm attitude to one’s work a sign of mental health? Is a merely professional attitude the only sane approach? ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1352:Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB
1353:Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data. ~ Elizabeth Holmes, #NFDB
1354:People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly. ~ Isabel Burton, #NFDB
1355:The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
1356:The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB
1357:The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1358:The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
1359:To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless. ~ Herophilos, #NFDB
1360:We are all the beneficiaries of those who went before us, as well as those who will care for us in old age or ill health. ~ Tony Judt, #NFDB
1361:We currently have a system for taking care of sickness. We do not have a system for enhancing and promoting health. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
1362:We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society. ~ Benjamin Carson, #NFDB
1363:We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1364:Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health. ~ Jean Houston, #NFDB
1365:you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absence of one with the other two. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1366:Youth, beauty, life, riches, health, friends are things that pass; let not the wise man attach himself at all to these. ~ Mahabharata, #NFDB
1367:All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. ~ John Locke, #NFDB
1368:A lot of people have so many issues like depression, obesity or chronic illness that has to do with gut health. ~ Rachele Brooke Smith, #NFDB
1369:As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1370:At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1371:Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare]. ~ Rachel Martin, #NFDB
1372:Being active and good health is the most important beauty regime because that will affect you for the rest of your life. ~ Kate Hudson, #NFDB
1373:Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1374:Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1375:It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment. ~ Danny Glover, #NFDB
1376:Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health. ~ Michael Gurian, #NFDB
1377:Live Foods and Exercise = Good Health and Happiness. Make eating the right foods and daily workouts a top priority. ~ Bradford Winters, #NFDB
1378:Making sure you drink enough pure water is one of the most important and powerful steps you can take for good health. ~ Joseph Mercola, #NFDB
1379:most of the workplace exposures have health effects comparable to or even greater than exposure to secondhand smoke. ~ Jeffrey Pfeffer, #NFDB
1380:My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health." - City of Bones (said by Jace Wayland) ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1381:Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1382:people became not just more cost conscious, but also more environmentally aware, health minded, and ethically driven. ~ Howard Schultz, #NFDB
1383:Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener. ~ Thomas Keneally, #NFDB
1384:The environment that most influences our health and our chances of attaining wealth is the one between our ears. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1385:The fact is, you will never reach your optimum health without paying attention to the spiritual dimensions of your life. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
1386:The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1387:The lovable bulldog is a feat of human genetic engineering so extreme that it requires special health care and maintenance ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1388:The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1389:The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world. ~ Margaret Chan, #NFDB
1390:Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby. ~ William H Calvin, #NFDB
1391:We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
1392:You can save a person’s life and still they may waste away. Health, wealth, and intelligence are matters of conviction. ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB
1393:You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other. ~ Jane Goodall, #NFDB
1394:Eating healthy is expensive. Not eating healthy is expensive. One dents your pocket. The other dents your health. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1395:Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1396:Grace turns pennies into gold, pebbles into pearls, sickness into health, weakness into strength, and needs into abundance. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1397:It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit. ~ William Dean Howells, #NFDB
1398:Just the simple process of letting go of negative thoughts will allow your natural state of health to emerge within you. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
1399:Knowledge of constitution is the key for a holistic and integral health care, the true basis of any preventative medicine. ~ Vasant Lad, #NFDB
1400:Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
1401:Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful. ~ Andre Leon Talley, #NFDB
1402:Most people view health only in the physical sense, but I view it also in the mental, spiritual, and emotional sense. ~ Malcolm Goodwin, #NFDB
1403:Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener. ~ Thomas Keneally, #NFDB
1404:Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support. ~ Jim McCrery, #NFDB
1405:Shawn Stevenson’s book, Sleep Smarter: 21 Proven Tips to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
1406:The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff. ~ Tom Coburn, #NFDB
1407:The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. ~ Rutherford B Hayes, #NFDB
1408:There is not a single health-promoting substance present in grains that you can’t also get from vegetables and fruit. ~ Melissa Hartwig, #NFDB
1409:This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem. ~ Joe Rogan, #NFDB
1410:This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
1411:We’re all of us ill in one way or another: We call it health when we find no symptom Of illness. Health is a relative term. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
1412:We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
1413:We want to believe health and youth can belong to us forever; we want to deny the reality of transience in our lives. ~ Daniel J Siegel, #NFDB
1414:We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
1415:You can actually improve your health by spending more time in nature and getting in touch with the earth and sky. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
1416:Your thoughts and beliefs are the single most important indicator of your state of health. That is amazingly good ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
1417:A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system. ~ John Stossel, #NFDB
1418:A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. ~ Clarence Day, #NFDB
1419:And, since birds are a main predator of forest insects, their dwindling is already affecting the health of our forests. ~ The New Yorker, #NFDB
1420:Businesses want to offer solid, affordable health insurance to their employees, but it is getting harder to find every year. ~ Herb Kohl, #NFDB
1421:Digital India' is not an elite concept anymore. We have to use this idea to revolutionize health and education in India. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1422:Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. ~ Denis Diderot, #NFDB
1423:His chains chinked softly. I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
1424:I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
1425:I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health. ~ K D Lang, #NFDB
1426:I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror. ~ Alan Colmes, #NFDB
1427:...I supplied in a tone so saccharine that it should have tipped him off that his testicular health was in serious peril. ~ Molly Harper, #NFDB
1428:It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” —J. Krishnamurti “In the end, winning is ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1429:Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1430:No single food will make or break good health. But the kinds of food you choose day in and day out have a major impact. ~ Walter Willett, #NFDB
1431:Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1432:Shawn Stevenson’s book, Sleep Smarter: 21 Proven Tips to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success. ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
1433:The body isn’t the foundation of your health. The body is the physical manifestation of the sum of your life experiences. ~ Lissa Rankin, #NFDB
1434:The entire health industry lies about what things cost to make,” she said. “I know what things cost because I made them. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
1435:The magazine at the health food store said, Stop Aging! Isn't that what death is for? Trust me, we're all gonna stop aging. ~ Dana Gould, #NFDB
1436:the only cereal in Aunt Jean’s pantry was some kind of health food that looked as if it had been swept off the forest floor, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1437:The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1438:The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play. ~ Margaret Chan, #NFDB
1439:...unfair as it may be, nothing guarantees health to the old. Bodies wear out...despite the most careful maintenance. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1440:we can make a reasonable argument that engaging (well) in difficult conversations is a sign of health in a relationship. ~ Douglas Stone, #NFDB
1441:When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues ~ Larry Dossey, #NFDB
1442:Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens. ~ Robin Boyd, #NFDB
1443:Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants. ~ Moby, #NFDB
1444:Eastern philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti,26 who explained: “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society. ~ Johann Hari, #NFDB
1445:Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have. ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
1446:Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line. ~ Betty White, #NFDB
1447:Halloween Costume I Hate: kids dressed as their parent's poltical beliefs. Oooh! Aren't you a scary health care reform bill! ~ Dana Gould, #NFDB
1448:I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it. ~ Michael Crichton, #NFDB
1449:If you want to be healthy study health... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth... if you want to be happy, study happiness. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
1450:If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn. ~ Victoria Coren Mitchell, #NFDB
1451:I have been very, very lucky because I have my health, a wonderful husband, family, and friends, and I get to do what I love. ~ Daphne Oz, #NFDB
1452:In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians. ~ T Colin Campbell, #NFDB
1453:My body is a reflection of how grateful I am for my life and my health; there are a lot of people less fortunate than me. ~ Rutina Wesley, #NFDB
1454:Say good-bye to the Affordable Care Act. That means 20 million people who lose their health insurance, just like that. ~ Elizabeth Warren, #NFDB
1455:The World Health Organization has named antibiotic resistance as one of the three major health problems of the new century. ~ Ralph Nader, #NFDB
1456:What aided the mind made the body suffer. They could choose mental health or physical health, but they could not have both. ~ Rufi Thorpe, #NFDB
1457:Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
1458:A good fit of illness proves the value of health; real danger tries one's mettle; and self-service Sweetner character. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
1459:Everyone should try no gluten for a week! The change in your skin, physical and mental health is amazing. You won't go back! ~ Miley Cyrus, #NFDB
1460:Health and life, I would say, in the full and final sense of those words, are not what we die out of, but what we die into ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
1461:Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves. ~ Italo Svevo, #NFDB
1462:If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
1463:I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family. ~ Urban Meyer, #NFDB
1464:In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life. ~ David Agus, #NFDB
1465:In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1466:Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land. ~ Aldo Leopold, #NFDB
1467:My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1468:My middle school health teacher told us that you can hold eye contact for 10 seconds before scaring or seducing someone. ~ Caroline Kepnes, #NFDB
1469:Our whole business therefore in this life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1470:Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1471:President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program. ~ Mario Diaz Balart, #NFDB
1472:Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8. ~ Elisabeth Elliot, #NFDB
1473:Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student. ~ Stendhal, #NFDB
1474:We believe that the health of a culture is measured in part by the vigor with which its immune system responds to nonsense. ~ Paul R Gross, #NFDB
1475:Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh. ~ Elizabeth Meriwether, #NFDB
1476:Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
1477:A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely. ~ Helen Cresswell, #NFDB
1478:Be clear about the purpose of money. Money is like health. It is necessary for survival but it is not what you live for. ~ Ernie J Zelinski, #NFDB
1479:Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
1480:Health so far outweighs all external goods that a healthy beggars is truly more fortunate than a king in poor health. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
1481:[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person. ~ Michael Bloomberg, #NFDB
1482:I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities. ~ Stefan Molyneux, #NFDB
1483:I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel. ~ Melissa Etheridge, #NFDB
1484:I think actually in any party it's a sign of general health to have different views, and especially on the subject of trade. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
1485:I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care. ~ Michael D Higgins, #NFDB
1486:I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all. ~ Richard Lewontin, #NFDB
1487:i think the idea of a 'mental health day' was invented by people who have no clue what it's like to have bad mental health ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
1488:Make your body your prized possession above all physical things. Spare no expense, re-prioritize and invest in your health. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1489:My middle school health teacher told us that you can hold eye contact for ten seconds before scaring or seducing someone. ~ Caroline Kepnes, #NFDB
1490:Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1491:One can only be in awe of the creativity of chocolate marketers. My take is that if there is a health benefit, it is small. ~ Marion Nestle, #NFDB
1492:Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege. ~ Peter Shumlin, #NFDB
1493:there was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of he young breath-giving air. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1494:The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk. ~ Anthony Giddens, #NFDB
1495:U.S. consumers report higher dissatisfaction with their health care system than do consumers in other developed nations. ~ Michael E Porter, #NFDB
1496:You can't help people like her unless they want to be helped. That's the first law of mental health. You know it, I know it. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1497:As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it. ~ Susan Faludi, #NFDB
1498:Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
1499:Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you’re a rich man…. ~ Thomas J Stanley, #NFDB
1500:Health care was the most highly regulated industry in the country and for good reason: the lives of patients were at stake. ~ John Carreyrou, #NFDB
341 Integral Yoga
145 Poetry
58 Occultism
57 Christianity
47 Fiction
46 Philosophy
41 Yoga
23 Psychology
9 Education
6 Philsophy
6 Mysticism
5 Theosophy
5 Hinduism
4 Sufism
4 Mythology
4 Integral Theory
2 Baha i Faith
1 Zen
1 Thelema
1 Science
1 Islam
1 Cybernetics
1 Buddhism
1 Alchemy
179 The Mother
167 Sri Aurobindo
106 Satprem
40 Nolini Kanta Gupta
28 H P Lovecraft
26 Walt Whitman
26 Saint Augustine of Hippo
25 William Wordsworth
22 John Keats
21 Sri Ramakrishna
20 Plotinus
20 Carl Jung
19 Percy Bysshe Shelley
19 James George Frazer
18 Aleister Crowley
14 Robert Browning
10 Swami Krishnananda
10 A B Purani
9 Rudolf Steiner
9 Friedrich Nietzsche
8 Plato
7 Swami Vivekananda
6 Saint Teresa of Avila
6 Saint John of Climacus
6 Ralph Waldo Emerson
6 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5 William Butler Yeats
5 Nirodbaran
5 Jordan Peterson
5 Henry David Thoreau
4 Sri Ramana Maharshi
4 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
4 Franz Bardon
4 Alice Bailey
4 Al-Ghazali
3 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
3 Ovid
3 Lucretius
3 Baha u llah
3 Aldous Huxley
2 Thubten Chodron
2 R Buckminster Fuller
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 Hafiz
2 George Van Vrekhem
2 Genpo Roshi
2 Edgar Allan Poe
2 Anonymous
80 Record of Yoga
28 Lovecraft - Poems
25 Wordsworth - Poems
24 Whitman - Poems
24 The Synthesis Of Yoga
22 Keats - Poems
20 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
19 The Golden Bough
19 Shelley - Poems
17 City of God
14 Letters On Yoga IV
14 Browning - Poems
12 Agenda Vol 06
11 Agenda Vol 05
11 Agenda Vol 02
10 The Study and Practice of Yoga
10 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
10 Questions And Answers 1953
10 Magick Without Tears
10 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
10 Agenda Vol 10
9 The Practice of Psycho therapy
9 Questions And Answers 1956
9 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
9 Agenda Vol 04
9 Agenda Vol 03
8 Questions And Answers 1954
8 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
8 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
8 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
8 Agenda Vol 09
8 Agenda Vol 01
7 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
7 The Human Cycle
7 The Bible
7 On Education
7 Agenda Vol 11
6 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
6 Some Answers From The Mother
6 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
6 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
6 Mysterium Coniunctionis
6 Liber ABA
6 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
6 Emerson - Poems
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
6 Agenda Vol 08
5 Yeats - Poems
5 Words Of Long Ago
5 Walden
5 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
5 The Secret Doctrine
5 The Life Divine
5 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
5 Talks
5 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
5 Prayers And Meditations
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
5 Maps of Meaning
5 Faust
5 Agenda Vol 12
5 Agenda Vol 07
4 Words Of The Mother II
4 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
4 The Alchemy of Happiness
4 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
4 Raja-Yoga
4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
4 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
3 Vedic and Philological Studies
3 The Perennial Philosophy
3 Questions And Answers 1955
3 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
3 Of The Nature Of Things
3 Metamorphoses
3 Letters On Yoga II
3 Essays Divine And Human
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
3 Amrita Gita
3 Aion
3 Agenda Vol 13
2 Twilight of the Idols
2 The Practice of Magical Evocation
2 The Phenomenon of Man
2 The Essentials of Education
2 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
2 Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
2 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
2 Song of Myself
2 Preparing for the Miraculous
2 Poe - Poems
2 Letters On Yoga I
2 Initiation Into Hermetics
2 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
2 Hafiz - Poems
2 Bhakti-Yoga
2 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Gadadhar grew up into a Healthy and restless boy, full of fun and sweet mischief. He was intelligent and precocious and endowed with a prodigious memory. On his father's lap he learnt by heart the names of his ancestors and the hymns to the gods and goddesses, and at the village school he was taught to read and write. But his greatest delight was to listen to recitations of stories from Hindu mythology and the epics. These he would afterwards recount from memory, to the great joy of the villagers. Painting he enjoyed; the art of moulding images of the gods and goddesses he learnt from the potters. But arithmetic was his great aversion.
At the age of six or seven Gadadhar had his first experience of spiritual ecstasy. One day in June or July, when he was walking along a narrow path between paddy-fields, eating the puffed rice that he carried in a basket, he looked up at the sky and saw a beautiful, dark thunder-cloud. As it spread, rapidly enveloping the whole sky, a flight of snow-white cranes passed in front of it. The beauty of the contrast overwhelmed the boy. He fell to the ground, unconscious, and the puffed rice went in all directions. Some villagers found him and carried him home in their arms. Gadadhar said later that in that state he had experienced an indescribable joy.
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In 1858 there came to Dakshineswar a cousin of Sri Ramakrishna, Haladhari by name, who was to remain there about eight years. On account of Sri Ramakrishna's indifferent Health, Mathur appointed this man to the office of priest in the Kali temple. He was a complex character, versed in the letter of the scriptures, but hardly aware of their spirit. He loved to participate in hair-splitting theological discussions and, by the measure of his own erudition, he proceeded to gauge Sri Ramakrishna. An orthodox brahmin, he thoroughly disapproved of his cousin's unorthodox actions, but he was not unimpressed by Sri Ramakrishna's purity of life, ecstatic love of God, and yearning for realization.
One day Haladhari upset Sri Ramakrishna with the statement that God is incomprehensible to the human mind. Sri Ramakrishna has described the great moment of doubt when he wondered whether his visions had really misled him: "With sobs I prayed to the Mother, 'Canst Thou have the heart to deceive me like this because I am a fool?' A stream of tears flowed from my eyes. Shortly afterwards I saw a volume of mist rising from the floor and filling the space before me. In the midst of it there appeared a face with flowing beard, calm, highly expressive, and fair. Fixing its gaze steadily upon me, it said solemnly, 'Remain in bhavamukha, on the threshold of relative consciousness.' This it repeated three times and then it gently disappeared in the mist, which itself dissolved. This vision reassured me."
A garbled report of Sri Ramakrishna's failing Health, indifference to worldly life, and various abnormal activities reached Kamarpukur and filled the heart of his poor mother with anguish. At her repeated request he returned to his village for a change of air. But his boyhood friends did not interest him any more. A divine fever was consuming him. He spent a great part of the day and night in one of the cremation grounds, in meditation. The place reminded him of the impermanence of the human body, of human hopes and achievements. It also reminded him of Kali, the Goddess of destruction.
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But in a few months his Health showed improvement, and he recovered to some extent his natural buoyancy of spirit. His happy mother was encouraged to think it might be a good time to arrange his marriage. The boy was now twenty-three years old. A wife would bring him back to earth. And she was delighted when her son welcomed her suggestion. Perhaps he saw in it the finger of God.
Saradamani, a little girl of five, lived in the neighbouring village of Jayrambati. Even at this age she had been praying to God to make her character as stainless and fragrant as the white tuberose. Looking at the full moon, she would say: "O God, there are dark spots even on the moon. But make my character spotless." It was she who was selected as the bride for Sri Ramakrishna.
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In April 1885 the Master's throat became inflamed. Prolonged conversation or absorption in samadhi, making the blood flow into the throat, would aggravate the pain. Yet when the annual Vaishnava festival was celebrated at Panihati, Sri Ramakrishna attended it against the doctor's advice. With a group of disciples he spent himself in music, dance, and ecstasy. The illness took a turn for the worse and was diagnosed as "clergyman's sore throat". The patient was cautioned against conversation and ecstasies. Though he followed the physician's directions regarding medicine and diet, he could neither control his trances nor withhold from seekers the solace of his advice. Sometimes, like a sulky child, he would complain to the Mother about the crowds, who gave him no rest day or night. He was overheard to say to Her; "Why do You bring here all these worthless people, who are like milk diluted with five times its own quantity of water? My eyes are almost destroyed with blowing the fire to dry up the water. My Health is gone. It is beyond my strength. Do it Yourself, if You want it done. This (pointing to his own body) is but a perforated drum, and if you go on beating it day in and day out, how long will it last?"
But his large heart never turned anyone away. He said, "Let me be condemned to be born over and over again, even in the form of a dog, if I can be of help to a single soul." And he bore the pain, singing cheerfully, "Let the body be preoccupied with illness, but, O mind, dwell for ever in God's Bliss!"
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It was noticed at this time that some of the devotees were making an unbridled display of their emotions. A number of them, particularly among the householders, began to cultivate, though at first unconsciously, the art of shedding tears, shaking the body, contorting the face, and going into trances, attempting thereby to imitate the Master. They began openly to declare Sri Ramakrishna a Divine Incarnation and to regard themselves as his chosen people, who could neglect religious disciplines with impunity. Narendra's penetrating eye soon sized up the situation. He found out that some of these external manifestations were being carefully practised at home, while some were the outcome of malnutrition, mental weakness, or nervous debility. He mercilessly exposed the devotees who were pretending to have visions, and asked all to develop a Healthy religious spirit. Narendra sang inspiring songs for the younger devotees, read with them the Imitation of Christ and the Gita, and held before them the positive ideals of spirituality.
--- LAST DAYS AT COSSIPORE
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Makes a man Healthy and wealthy and wise:
But late to watch and early to pray
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The title of the chapter is borrowed from the Health-
giving and fascinating sport of fox-hunting, which
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Health is not robust.
All other thoughts are surely symptoms of disease.
0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and Health of all humanity. With this objective, we set out on our review of the spectrum of significant experiences and seek therein for the greatest meanings as well as for the family of generalized principles governing the realization of their optimum significance to humanity aboard our Sun circling planet Earth.
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
towards ideal social and economic conditions, by the labour of Science towards an improved Health, longevity and sound physique in civilised humanity, the sense and drift of this vast movement translates itself in easily intelligible signs. The right or at least the ultimate means may not always be employed, but their aim is the right preliminary aim, - a sound individual and social body and the satisfaction of the legitimate needs and demands of the material mind, sufficient ease, leisure, equal opportunity, so that the whole of mankind and no longer only the favoured race, class or individual may be free to develop the emotional and intellectual being to its full capacity. At present the material and economic aim may predominate, but always, behind, there works or there waits in reserve the higher and major impulse.
And when the preliminary conditions are satisfied, when the great endeavour has found its base, what will be the nature of that farther possibility which the activities of the intellectual life must serve? If Mind is indeed Nature's highest term, then the entire development of the rational and imaginative intellect and the harmonious satisfaction of the emotions and sensibilities must be to themselves sufficient. But if, on the contrary, man is more than a reasoning and emotional animal, if beyond that which is being evolved, there is something that has to be evolved, then it may well be that the fullness of the mental life, the suppleness, flexibility and wide capacity of the intellect, the ordered richness of emotion and sensibility may be only a passage towards the development of a higher life and of more powerful faculties which are yet to manifest and to take possession of the lower instrument, just as mind itself has so taken possession of the body that the physical being no longer lives only for its own satisfaction but provides the foundation and the materials for a superior activity.
0.03 - III - The Evening Sittings, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
The long period of the Second World War with all its vicissitudes passed through these years. It was a priceless experience to see how he devoted his energies to the task of saving humanity from the threatened reign of Nazism. It was a practical lesson of solid work done for humanity without any thought of return or reward, without even letting humanity know what he was doing for it! Thus he lived the Divine and showed us how the Divine cares for the world, how He comes down and works for man. I shall never forget how he who was at one time in his own words "not merely a non-co-operator but an enemy of British Imperialism" bestowed such anxious care on the Health of Churchill, listening carefully to the Health-bulletins! It was the work of the Divine, it was the Divine's work for the world.
There were no formal evening sittings during these years, but what appeared to me important in our informal talks was recorded and has been incorporated in this book.
0.04 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
their Health goes.
What is the use of being a sadhak if, as soon as we act, we
0.04 - The Systems of Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
By its numerous asanas or fixed postures it first cures the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working them off in action and movement the vital forces poured into it from the universal Life-Ocean, gives to it an extraordinary Health, force and suppleness and seeks to liberate it from the habits by which it is subjected to ordinary physical
Nature and kept within the narrow bounds of her normal operations. In the ancient tradition of Hathayoga it has always been supposed that this conquest could be pushed so far even as to conquer to a great extent the force of gravitation. By various subsidiary but elaborate processes the Hathayogin next contrives to keep the body free from all impurities and the nervous system unclogged for those exercises of respiration which are his most important instruments. These are called pran.ayama, the control of the breath or vital power; for breathing is the chief physical functioning of the vital forces. Pranayama, for the Hathayogin, serves a double purpose. First, it completes the perfection of the body. The vitality is liberated from many of the ordinary necessities of physical Nature; robust Health, prolonged youth, often an extraordinary longevity are attained.
On the other hand, Pranayama awakens the coiled-up serpent of the Pranic dynamism in the vital sheath and opens to the Yogin fields of consciousness, ranges of experience, abnormal faculties denied to the ordinary human life while it puissantly intensifies such normal powers and faculties as he already possesses.
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The results of Hathayoga are thus striking to the eye and impose easily on the vulgar or physical mind. And yet at the end we may ask what we have gained at the end of all this stupendous labour. The object of physical Nature, the preservation of the mere physical life, its highest perfection, even in a certain sense the capacity of a greater enjoyment of physical living have been carried out on an abnormal scale. But the weakness of Hathayoga is that its laborious and difficult processes make so great a demand on the time and energy and impose so complete a severance from the ordinary life of men that the utilisation of its results for the life of the world becomes either impracticable or is extraordinarily restricted. If in return for this loss we gain another life in another world within, the mental, the dynamic, these results could have been acquired through other systems, through Rajayoga, through Tantra, by much less laborious methods and held on much less exacting terms. On the other hand the physical results, increased vitality, prolonged youth, Health, longevity are of small avail if they must be held by us as misers of ourselves, apart from the common life, for their own sake, not utilised, not thrown into the common sum of the world's activities. Hathayoga attains large results, but at an exorbitant price and to very little purpose.
Rajayoga takes a higher flight. It aims at the liberation and perfection not of the bodily, but of the mental being, the control of the emotional and sensational life, the mastery of the whole apparatus of thought and consciousness. It fixes its eyes on the citta, that stuff of mental consciousness in which all these activities arise, and it seeks, even as Hathayoga with its physical material, first to purify and to tranquillise. The normal state of man is a condition of trouble and disorder, a kingdom either at war with itself or badly governed; for the lord, the Purusha, is subjected to his ministers, the faculties, subjected even to his subjects, the instruments of sensation, emotion, action, enjoyment. Swarajya, self-rule, must be substituted for this subjection.
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
that you should get well; my force is with you to give you Health.
I take you into my arms, I take you to my heart.
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because it does not have a sound balance of Health. The best
cure is plenty of open-air exercise and abundant food.
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in your material life will you be able to have good Health.
Love from your mother.
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
and sound Health.
In the vital world attraction and repulsion are the right and
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
only for our spiritual progress but also for our material wellbeing, the Health of our body and the proper functioning of all
the activities of our being.
01.04 - Motives for Seeking the Divine, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Divine Force to aid him in keeping his Health or recovering it if he does that as part of his sadhana so that his body may be able and fit for the spiritual life and a capable instrument for the
Divine Work.
01.05 - The Nietzschean Antichrist, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This is the Nietzsche we all know. But there is another aspect of his which the world has yet been slow to recognise. For, at bottom, Nietzsche is not all storm and fury. If his Superman is a Destroying Angel, he is none the less an angel. If he is endowed with a supreme sense of strength and power, there is also secreted in the core of his heart a sense of the beautiful that illumines his somewhat sombre aspect. For although Nietzsche is by birth a Slavo-Teuton, by culture and education he is pre-eminently Hellenic. His earliest works are on the subject of Greek tragedy and form what he describes as an "Apollonian dream." And to this dream, to this Greek aesthetic sense more than to any thing else he sacrifices justice and pity and charity. To him the weak and the miserable, the sick and the maimed are a sort of blot, a kind of ulcer on the beautiful face of humanity. The herd that wallow in suffering and relish suffering disfigure the aspect of the world and should therefore be relentlessly mowed out of existence. By being pitiful to them we give our tacit assent to their persistence. And it is precisely because of this that Nietzsche has a horror of Christianity. For compassion gives indulgence to all the ugliness of the world and thus renders that ugliness a necessary and indispensable element of existence. To protect the weak, to sympathise with the lowly brings about more of weakness and more of lowliness. Nietzsche has an aristocratic taste par excellencewhat he aims at is Health and vigour and beauty. But above all it is an aristocracy of the spirit, an aristocracy endowed with all the richness and beauty of the soul that Nietzsche wants to establish. The beggar of the street is the symbol of ugliness, of the poverty of the spirit. And the so-called aristocrat, die millionaire of today is as poor and ugly as any helpless leper. The soul of either of them is made of the same dirty, sickly stuff. The tattered rags, the crouching heart, the effeminate nerve, the unenlightened soul are the standing ugliness of the world and they have no place in the ideal, the perfect humanity. Humanity, according to Nietzsche, is made in order to be beautiful, to conceive the beautiful, to create the beautiful. Nietzsche's Superman has its perfect image in a Grecian statue of Zeus cut out in white marble-Olympian grandeur shedding in every lineament Apollonian beauty and Dionysian vigour.
The real secret of Nietzsche's philosophy is not an adoration of brute force, of blind irrational joy in fighting and killing. Far from it, Nietzsche has no kinship with Treitschke or Bernhard. What Nietzsche wanted was a world purged of littleness and ugliness, a humanity, not of saints, perhaps, but of heroes, lofty in their ideal, great in their achievement, majestic in their empirea race of titanic gods breathing the glory of heaven itself.
01.08 - A Theory of Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In conscious control, the mind is for the first time aware of the presence of the repressed impulses, it seeks to release them from the pressure to which they are habitually and normally subjected. It knows and recognises them, however ugly and revolting they might appear to be when they present themselves in their natural nakedness. Then it becomes easy for the conscious determination to eliminate or regulate or transform them and thus to establish a Healthy harmony in the human vehicle. The very recognition itself, as implied in conscious control, means purification.
Yet even here the process of control and transformation does not end. And we now come to the Fifth Line, the real and intimate path of yoga. Conscious control gives us a natural mastery over the instinctive impulses which are relieved of their dark tamas and attain a purified rhythm. We do not seek to hide or repress or combat them, but surpass them and play with them as the artist does with his material. Something of this katharsis, this aestheticism of the primitive impulses was achieved by the ancient Greeks. Even then the primitive impulses remain primitive all the same; they fulfil, no doubt, a real and Healthy function in the scheme of life, but still in their fundamental nature they continue the animal in man. And even when Conscious Control means the utter elimination and annihilation of the primal instinctswhich, however, does not seem to be a probable eventualityeven then, we say, the basic problem remains unsolved; for the urge of nature towards the release and a transformation of the instincts does not find satisfaction, the question is merely put aside.
Yoga, then, comes at this stage and offers the solution in its power of what we may call Transubstantiation. That is to say, here the mere form is not changed, nor the functions restrained, regulated and purified, but the very substance of the instincts is transmuted. The power of conscious control is a power of the human will, i.e. of an individual personal will and therefore necessarily limited both in intent and extent. It is a power complementary to the power of Nature, it may guide and fashion the latter according to a new pattern, but cannot change the basic substance, the stuff of Nature. To that end yoga seeks a power that transcends the human will, brings into play the supernal puissance of a Divine Will.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Not only is it right, good and Healthy to think like this, but it
is an absolutely indispensable attitude if one wants to advance
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saintly or Healthy.
It is X who is spiritually right and you who are wrong with a
01.12 - Three Degrees of Social Organisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The conception of Right had to appear in order to bring out the principle of individuality, of personal freedom and fulfilment. For, a true Healthy collectivity is the association and organisation of free and self-determinate units. The growth of independent individuality naturally means at first clash and rivalry, and a violently competitive society is the result. It is only at this stage that the conception of duty can fruitfully come in and develop in man and his society the mode of Sattwa, which is that of light and wisdom, of toleration and harmony. Then only a society is sought to be moulded on the principle of co-ordination and co-operation.
Still, the conception of duty cannot finally and definitively solve the problem. It cannot arrive at a perfect harmonisation of the conflicting claims of individual units; for, duty, as I have already said, is a child of mental idealism, and although the mind can exercise some kind of control over life-forces, it cannot altogether eliminate the seeds of conflict that lie imbedded in the very nature of life. It is for this reason that there is an element of constraint in duty; it is, as the poet says, the "stern daughter of the Voice of God". One has to compel oneself, one has to use force on oneself to carry out one's dutythere is a feeling somehow of its being a bitter pill. The cult of duty means rajas controlled and coerced by Sattwa, not the transcendence of rajas. This leads us to the high and supreme conception of Dharma, which is a transcendence of the gunas. Dharma is not an ideal, a standard or a rule that one has to obey: it is the law of self-nature that one inevitably follows, it is easy, spontaneous, delightful. The path of duty is heroic, the path of Dharma is of the gods, godly (cf. Virabhava and Divyabhava of the Tantras).
0.12 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
upset its Health.
Therefore, one must be patient and follow the rhythm of
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Love of Nature is usually the sign of a pure and Healthy being uncorrupted by modern civilisation. It is in the silence of a
peaceful mind that one can best commune with Nature.
0 1958-05-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
When it is a question of movements like anger, desire, etc., you recognize that they are wrong and must disappear, but when material laws are in questionlaws of the body, for example, its needs, its Health, its nourishment, all those things they have such a solid, compact, established and concrete reality that it appears absolutely unquestionable.
Well, to be able to cure that, which of all the obstacles is the greatest (I mean the habit of putting spiritual life on one side and material life on the other, of acknowledging the right of material laws to exist), one must make a resolution never to legitimize any of these movements, at any cost.
0 1958-07-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The first time I came here and spoke with Sri Aurobindo about what was needed for the Work, he told me (he also wrote it to me) that for the secure achievement of the Work we would need three powers: one was the power over Health, the second was the power over government, and the third was the power over money.
Health naturally depends upon the sadhana; but even that is not so sure: there are other factors. As for the second, the power over government, Sri Aurobindo looked at it, studied it, considered it very carefully, and finally he told me, There is only one way to have that power: it is TO BE the government. One can influence individuals, one can transmit the will to them, but their hands are tied. In a government, there is no one individual, nor even several who is all-powerful and who can decide things. One must be the government oneself and give it the desired orientation.
For the last, for money, he told me, I still dont know exactly what it depends on. Then one day I entered into trance with this idea in mind, and after a certain journey I came to a place like a subterranean grotto (which means that it is in the subconscient, or perhaps even in the inconscient) which was the source, the place and the power over money. I was about to enter into this grotto (a kind of inner cave) when I saw, coiled and upright, an immense serpent, like an all black python, formidable, as big as a seven-story house, who said, You cannot pass!Why not? Let me pass!Myself, I would let you pass, but if I did, they would immediately destroy me.Who, then, is this they?They are the asuric4 powers who rule over money. They have put me here to guard the entrance, precisely so that you may not enter.And what is it that would give one the power to enter? Then he told me something like this: I heard (that is, he himself had no special knowledge, but it was something he had heard from his masters, those who ruled over him), I heard that he who will have a total power over the human sexual impulses (not merely in himself, but a universal power that is, a power enabling him to control this everywhere, among all men) will have the right to enter. In other words, these forces would not be able to prevent him from entering.
0 1958-09-16 - OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Lord, God of strength and Health.
The words came afterwards, as if they had been superimposed upon the states of consciousness, grafted onto them. Some of the associations seem unexpected, but they were the exact expression of the states of consciousness in their order of unfolding. They came one after another, as if the contact was trying to become more complete. And the last was like a triumph. As soon as I finished writing (in writing, all this becomes rather flat), the impetus within was still alive and it gave me the sense of an all-conquering Truth. And the last mantra sprang forth:
0 1959-01-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The pain on the left side has not entirely gone and there have been some complications which have delayed things. But I feel much better. In fact, I am rebuilding my Health, and I am in no hurry to resume the exhausting days as before. It is quiet upstairs for working, and I am going to take advantage of this to prepare the Bulletin1 at leisure. As I had not read over the pages on the message that we had prepared for the 31st, I have revised and transformed them into an article. It will be the first one in the February issue. I am now going to choose the others. I will tell you which ones I have chosen and in what order I will put them.
Satprem, my child, I am truly with you and I love you.
0 1959-01-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As for my Health and the Ashram, I infinitely appreciate what he has done and what he would like to continue to do. His visit will make me very happy, and if he comes in about one month, a few days before the darshan, there will be no need to find any excuse for his visit, for it will appear quite natural.
My Health is progressing well, but I intend to be very prudent and not burden myself with occupations. Yesterday, I began the balcony darshan again, and it is all right. That is all for the moment.
I am taking advantage of this situation to work. I have chosen the articles for the Bulletin. They are as follows: 1) Message. 2) To keep silent. 3) Can there be intermediary states between man and super-man? 4) The Anti-Divine. 5) What is the role of the spirit? 6) Karma (I have touched this one up to make it less personal). 7) The Worship of the Supreme in Matter. Now I would like to prepare the first twelve Aphorisms3 for printing. But as you have not yet revised the last two, I am sending them to you. Could you do them when you have finished what you are doing for the Bulletin? It is not urgent, take your time. Do not disturb your real work for this in any way. For, in my eyes, this work of inner liberation is much more important.
0 1960-10-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Z's work involved seeing Mother everyday to watch over her Health and her food.
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0 1960-10-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
What about you, is your Health better? (the disciple had not been well)
When you have to slip in seven hours of japa a day, it makes your life a bit strange!
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But I know in an absolute way that once this whole mass of the physical mind is mastered and the Brahmic consciousness is brought into it in a continuous way, you CAN you become the MASTER of your Health.
This is why I tell people (not that I expect them to do it, at least not now, but its good they know) that its NOT a matter of fate, NOT something that completely escapes our control, NOT some sort of Law of Nature over which we have no powerit is not so. We are truly the masters of everything which has been brought together to create our transitory individuality; we have been given the power of control, if only we knew how to use it.
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When I tell people that their Health depends on their inner life (an intermediate inner life, not the deepest), its because of this.
During the last two years, Ive been accumulating experiences IN THEIR MINUTEST DETAILS, things that might seem most useless. You have to consent to that and not have a mania for greatness; you must know that where the key is found is in the tiniest effort to create a true attitude in a few cells.
0 1960-11-05, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
To change it, you have to descend into itwhich is what Im in the midst of doing. But you know, it makes for painful moments. Anyway, once its done, it will be something. When that is done, Ill explain it to you. And then Ill have the power to restore you to Health.
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0 1961-01-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But now the situation is bad. There are something like thirty cases of measles, four or five of smallpox and some chickenpox as well. You must be careful. I need you in good Health, otherwise well have to stop everything!
There are places where it happens like that: suddenly everything stopsno more school, no more mail, no more trains. I remember a poor little village in Japan where they had a flu epidemic, the first of its kind. They didnt know what it was and the whole village fell ill. It was winter, the village was snowed in and there was no more communication with the outside (the mail came only once every fifteen days). The postman arrived and everyone was dead, buried beneath the snow.
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But truly speaking, the minute one completely emerges from the ordinary mind, NO EXTERIOR SIGN IS A PROOF, absolutely none. There is absolutely no standard to go byneither splendid good Health nor good equilibrium, nor an almost general disorganizationnone of these. All depends exclusivelyexclusivelyon what the Lord has decided. Exclusively. Consequently, if one remains very quiet, one is sure to know what He has decided.
When I am perfectly tranquil, I immediately live in a beatific joy where questions dont arisethere are no questions! One asks for nothingone LIVES! One lives happily, and thats all. Theres no, Will it be like this? Will it be like that?how childish! There are no questions, questions dont arise. One is a beatitude manifesting, that is all.
0 1961-03-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In addition, I told them it was preferable not to hold any functions herethey can be held at Tapogiri in the Himalayas, or elsewhere and this is understood. They did hold a seminar here (a perfect fiasco, besides), but it had been arranged a long time ago. They invited people who promised to come (I think very few showed up in the end), and it was of very secondary importance. Nevertheless, I told them, This is the last time; dont do it here any more. At Tapogiri, as often as you like: its a beautiful spot in the mountains, a Health resort, people go there in the summer for the fresh air and to sit around and chat!
What shocked me was. You know I rarely leave my house, but each time I would come to the Ashram for darshan or to see you, always, as if by chance, I would find J. off in a corner with some European visitor. The repetition of this coincidence made me wonder, Whats he doing so systematically with ALL the European visitors?! And it shocked me to imagine myself in their place: just suppose, I said to myself, you are coming to the Ashram for the first time, very open, in search of a great truth, and you stumble upon this man who tells you: Sri Aurobindo = World Union. Well, my first reaction would be, Im leaving, Im not interested!
0 1961-03-14, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
How to explain it? Its rather strange: the cells attitude and their state of consciousness is changing with extraordinary rapidity; yet from the ordinary viewpoint of Health, there is no corresponding progress, quite the contrary. One could say things arent going too well, but I see clearly that its not true. I see that it isnt true, its only an appearance but reconciling the two is difficult.
I have been honored with a form of filariasis which occurs perhaps not once in a million cases. The doctor isnt tearing his hair out because thats not his way, but he is perplexed.
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And within oh! Its like waves, constantly, the equivalent of those nuances of color I was speaking about, waves of this joy of life, the joy of life rippling past, touching; but instead of being. At times, you see, the body is in a sort of equilibrium (what we, in our ordinary outer consciousness, call equilibrium that is, good Health), and then this joy is constant, like swells on the sea (Mother shapes great waves): it seems to flow on behind everything; it comes and shows its face for a moment, then vanishes. In the very tiny things of lifeyes, physical life the joy of these things, the joy life contains, this luminous, special kind of vibration, rises up as if to remind us that its here; it is here, it mustnt be forgotten, its here but its kept down by this tension.
Then, from time to time, everything seems to be on the edge of a precipice; the body doesnt fall simply because it keeps its balance but without this higher state of perfect faith, one would surely fall!
0 1961-04-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And there has been a decline in everyones Health. Many people are sick. The illnesses are of a more serious nature there has been a decline.
You have to look at all this with a smile, of course (and I do), but I must say that the enthusiastic side (you know, that fire of enthusiasm) has been dampened. Well, theres no need to get excitedit will take time.
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And this aspiration depends neither on the state of Health nor. Its absolutely independent of all circumstances I have felt this aspiration in the cells of my body at the very moment when things were at their most disorganized, when, from an ordinary medical standpoint, the illness was serious. The cells THEMSELVES aspire. And this aspiration has to be everywhere.
When one is in this state, there is no need to worrynothing else matters (Mother bursts into laughter).
0 1961-05-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem inquires about Mother's Health.)
Its obviously a type of filariasis which obstinately refuses to go away, but anyway. It causes only one inconvenience now: it makes the legs very weakvery weak. I go through what seem like terrible gymnastics to climb the stairs. Other than that it doesnt matter. From time to time it pricks, it stings, it bites, it swells up but its nothing.
0 1961-08-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The subtle physical is right here (gesture on the surface of the skin). Some people are sensitive in the subtle physical; you move your hand near them and they feel it immediately. Others dont even noticeit depends on the subtle physicals sensitivity. And the circumconscient surrounds it like an envelope. If there are no tears in it, this envelope is a magnificent protection.4 And its not dependent on any spiritual or intellectual rationale, but on a harmony with Nature and life, a kind of stability in the material being. People with strong envelopes are almost always in good Health and succeed in what they do. It isnt something mentalwhen they do a work it comes out nicely, if they want to meet someone, they meet him. Things of this nature.
The circumconscient must be that.
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There was another reason. My father was wonderfully Healthy and strongwell-balanced. He wasnt very tall, but stocky. He did all his studies in Austria (at that time French was widely spoken in Austria, but he knew German, he knew English, Italian, Turkish), and there he had learned to ride horses in an extraordinary manner: he was so strong that he could bring a horse to the ground simply by pressing his knees. He could break anything at all with a blow of his fist, even one of those big silver five-franc pieces they had in those daysone blow and it was broken in two. Curiously enough, he looked Russian. I dont know why. They used to call him Barine. What an equilibriuman extraordinary physical poise! And not only did this man know all those languages, but I never saw such a brain for arithmetic. Never. He made a game of calculationsnot the slightest effortcalculations with hundreds of digits! And on top of it, he loved birds. He had a room to himself in our apartment (because my mother could never much tolerate him), he had his separate room, and in it he kept a big cage full of canaries! During the day he would close the windows and let all the canaries loose.
And could he tell stories! I think he read every novel available, all the stories he could findextraordinary adventure stories, for he loved adventures. When we were kids he used to let us come into his room very early in the morning and, while still sitting in bed, tell us stories from the books he had read but he told them as if they were his own, as if hed had extraordinary adventures with outlaws, with wild animals. Every story he picked up he told as his own. We enjoyed it tremendously!
0 1961-08-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Your Health is all right?
Yes, yes, its all right.
0 1961-10-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Words dont convey anything; it was the experience. I made contact. It was very interesting. It lasted a long time, some two or three days. Since it was also linked to a state of Healtha headache that had to be curedit bore its consequences: a crystal clear explanation of illness came. But I must again add something that preceded this.
This concentration on finding the mechanism sprang from the fact that there were disorders in the body which were vanishing and then reappearingpermanent cure seemed impossible. So I told myself, Somewhere, probably in the subconscient, something must be justifying their presence. Then, after concentrating and searching and concentrating some more, suddenly a memory rose up from the subconscient (a memory which is a kind of continued existence under a certain form), the memory of a particular set of movements and actions (not physical movements, but attitudes) that go back many years and had never attracted my attention. None of it had ever been included in the general clearing-out because, like so many other things, it all seemed to be due to normal, ongoing circumstances. But thats just where I saw (what to call it?) the hue, the taint of Falsehood. Its very subtle. These are very subtle things. But suddenly, oh! It caught hold of me and created a revolution in the whole being. All those vibrations were cast up and transformedan extraordinary thing. It stirred up much more commotion and revolution than I had ever expected. And ah! A relief. Something was clarified, bringing a brilliant, new comprehension, and then quite interesting physical results. Before this, I was really feeling rather poorly, extremely tired, with the impression of a decline into decrepituderelatively speaking! (It was in a very superficial part of the being, but it was enough to be disagreeable.) And all of itpfft! Gone in a single stroke.
0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When we returned to France, Richard got himself declared unfit for military service on Health groundsa yogic heart ailment! But life in France was impossible; and my presence there was dangerous because monstrous things were going on, monstrous; as Sri Aurobindo said, my sitting at home all alone was generating revolutionsarmies were revolting.6 I saw that happening and I didnt want the Germans to win, which would have been even worse, so I said, I had better go. Then Richard managed to have himself sent to Japan on business (an admirable feat!), representing certain companies. People didnt want to travel because it was dangerousyou risked being sunk to the bottom of the sea; so they were pleased when we offered and sent us to Japan.
Once there (this would also make a great novel), Richard continued writing and sending his manuscripts to Sri Aurobindo. Finally, when the Peace Treaty was signed and it was possible to travel, the English said that if we tried to return to India they would throw us in jail! But it all worked out miraculously, almost becoming a diplomatic incident: the Japanese government decided that if we were put in prison they would protest to the British government! (What a story I could write novels!) In short, Richard returned here with me. And thats when the tragi-comedy began.
0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its strange, these attacks bizarre; they seem to have nothing to do with my state of Health.
Its a sort of decentralization. You see, to form a body all the cells are concentrated by a kind of centripetal force that binds them together. Well, now its just the opposite! A kind of centrifugal force seems to be dispersing them. When it gets a bit too much I go out of my body; outwardly I seem to faint but I dont faint, I remain fully conscious. So obviously this creates a sort of bizarre disorganization.
0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because. Ive noticed there are always several ways of explaining things. But certainly one very common explanation would be that it was some type of magic spell for my Health too.
The last time X came, I was very ill the day he arrived and he was called to my room upstairsactually I wanted him to come upstairs for several reasons, so he could see certain things. But he didnt see a thing, or if he did, he was reluctant to say so. Oh, its a physical ailment, he said (it isnt true, I had no physical ailmentperhaps he didnt want to say it), its a physical ailment; something may be acting from outside, but it doesnt amount to much. But it seems to me the formation was made a long time ago I was always feeling attacked and it must have been skillfully made!4
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The 19th was so-so, and on the 20th I was concentrated all day long: no contacts with anyone, nothing external, only an intense invocation as intense and concentrated as when youre trying to melt into the Lord at death. It was like that. The same movement of identification, but at its core a will for everything to work out in a good way here [on the material plane]. In a good way I mean I said to the Lord, YOUR Good, the true Good, not. The true Good, a victorious Good, a real progress over the way life is usually lived. And I stayed in this unwavering concentration the whole day, all the time, all the time: even when I spoke, it was something very external speaking. And then at night when I went to bed I felt something had changed the body felt completely different. When I got up in the morning, all the pains and disorders and dangers had vanished. Lord, I said, You have given me a gift of Health.
And with this change, the bodily substance, the very stuff of the cells, was constantly being told, Dont you forget, now you see that miracles CAN happen. In other words, the way things work out in physical substance may not at all conform to the laws of Nature. Dont forget, now! It kept coming back like a refrain: Dont forget, now! This is how it is. And I saw how necessary this repetition was for the cells: they forget right away and try to find explanations (oh, how stupid can you be!). Its a sort of feeling (not at all an individual way of thinking), its Matters way of thinking. Matter is built like that, its part of its make-up. We call it thinking for lack of a better word, but its not thinking: it is a material way of understanding things, the way Matter is able to understand.
0 1962-05-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Later, when I had that second vision April 3, 1962, I saw that the same being was behind this would-be Sri Aurobindo (and with a whole group organized around himpeople, ceremonies and so on). So from that I concluded that the thing had been developing. But when I first encountered those people [in 1959] it was merely something in the Subconscient and the effect was only psychological (an hour or two was enough to sort things out and put them in order). It didnt affect my Health. But this time.
So it was in 59 that I first saw them, and it must have been the end of June or the beginning of July. This note [the desk-calendar page] is what gave me the clue, because I know that the other experience [of Sri Aurobindo in the subtle physical] came a few weeks later.
0 1962-05-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(The subject here is a letter, no longer extant, in which Satprem expresses his desire to go write his new book1 in the Himalayas, far from present circumstances. These circumstances included poor Health, but mainly, lurking behind, was the violent and almost physical inner wound caused by his break with X. The idea was to go away for a change of air.)
(With an ironic smile) On the meandering path of the world, this trip doesnt look too bad! For you personally, its an experience that yes, that would give you a concrete sense of the vanity of a number of things that still. You see, throughout all ones lives and all of lifes circumstances, theres one thing after another, one thing after another, one thing after another (zigzag gesture) to remove the scales from your eyes.
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I mean it may beit may be that even an inner transformation (a complete conversion of the vital being, for instance) wouldnt necessarily bring an improvement in your Health. It is here where. Its not something I see imperatively. And to go back to ordinary life would be the end of everythingof your physical life and your inner life too.
I have absolutely no desire to do that!
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You know, I am absolutely convinced that when I have found what I seek [the third position] everything will change for you instantly, like this (gesture of turning upside-down): snap! You wont have to make the slightest effortit will be done just like that, in a flash. But meanwhile. Meanwhile I want you to be Healthy. If going to the mountains for a few months does you a lot of good. Notice I say if I am not sure of it.
I am sure that the only thing that would really do you good is precisely what you call the unblockingyour problems would be over.
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You would be perfectly happy, and Healthy besides.
But its because of this blockage that the body wonders, Whats the matter with me?
0 1962-05-29, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, only one thing worries me, one thing alone: your physical Health. But to tell the truth (the true truth of what I KNOW), I dont think theres any climate a body cant adapt to.
But I dont think so either!
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No, its solely a question of Health. If I could. Listen, I also had a longing to go to the Himalayas, I had a great longing for it when I was in France. When I came here the first time it was fine, I was very happy, everything was beautiful, everything was perfect, but oh, to go to the Himalayas for a while! (I have always loved mountains.) I was living over there in the Dupleix house, and I used to meditate while walking back and forth. There was a small courtyard with a dividing wall, and shards of glass were stuck on top of the wall to keep out thieves. And I was meditatingmeditating on the spiritual lifewhen suddenly something caught my eye: a ray of sunlight on a sharp piece of blue glass on top of the wall. And positively, spontaneously, without thinking or reflecting or anything I saw the summits of the Himalayas: I was on the summits of the Himalayas.
It lasted more than half an hour. It was a marvelous mountain scene, with mountain air and the lightness of the mountainsit was all there. The splendor of sunlight on the Himalayan peaks.
0 1962-06-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Your Health?
Yes, among other things. I have been wounded by that episode. You dont know all the details, but it was ugly.
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When Z first spoke to him, you know, he didnt deny anything; all he said was, Oh, lets not pay any heed to these worldly things. And then he talked about Zs arm, which he wanted to heal. The second time, he denied one par the denied he had spoken of my Health, when actually. The third time. You follow, the more it became necessary to take a clear stand, the more he denied, simply saying, No, I never said that.
So he has cut off relations with the Ashram?
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now thats interesting. In 48 ah, he was still in good Health. He had had a broken leg.
How long did you stay here the first time?
0 1962-08-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And each one is beginning to reveal its own particular nature. There are those stemming from peoples thoughts (I sense them in my body, not in the mind: the material consequence of peoples psychological state, and even their state of Health). Some things are general and last a bit longer; others are momentary, lasting only a few seconds. The first step is to study the different vibrational qualitiesyou could practically draw diagrams: if we had a machine sensitive enough to record these things, it would produce all kinds of zigs and zags.2 Certain vibrations immediately stop or change or are dissolved or repelled. Others are adopted, as it were, and transformed. The majority are simply pushed back and worked on from a distancequite a distance! I keep them at a fair distance (Mother laughs). Very few are let in. But some are let in for the sake of the experience, to see how much they upset the body. Theres also the effect of peoples permanent auras: I know a certain person is arriving by his auras effect on the body; because (laughing) each vibration has its particular effect on the bodyperfectly prosaic things, maybe, but by studying them you realize that each thing has its own law.
The interchange of vibrations among people is something tremendous, and were swimming in it all, all, all the timeeven when were alone! Because these things travel: for instance, its enough for someones thought to come and strike against yours, and for you to think of him (which means responding)there is an immediate effect in the body. So to imagine that solitude would make yoga any easier is sheer childishness.
0 1962-11-23, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I know; some people have even fallen ill. But I am at the mercy of such things,2 you understand, thats exactly whats happening. At times you feel that as far as Health goes, youve fallen into a dreadful hole, so.
The body was starting to manifest the Force and, honestly, I was envisaging taking on more activities again. But this last thing has come like a sudden blow to tell me it isnt possible and I have to be careful. So thats that.
0 1963-04-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am waiting for X to make certain changes in my japa, as he said he would, and will then come back without further delay. These last two days my Health has been better. I am no longer constantly tired as I was before. In the evening I take a walk alone in the vast dunes near Rameshwaram, it feels like Arabia, and no loudspeakers! You rest in a sort of tranquil infinity.
The monkeys stole my mirror while I was taking my bath, and after marveling at themselves in it at length, they broke it. Then they threw my toothpaste into the well. They were kind enough, however, to leave me my razor, for fear I would end up looking like them, probably!
0 1963-05-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It came to me while I was walking [for the japa]. I had a kind of vision of you squatting askew and writing. And I thought, But thats awful! Hell ruin his Health!
What is needed is to have the inner attitude.
0 1963-07-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body had based its sort of sense of good Health on a certain number of vibrations, and whenever those vibrations were present, it felt in good Health; when something came and disturbed them, it felt that it was about to fall ill or that it was ill, depending on the intensity. All that has changed now: those basic vibrations have simply been removed, they no longer exist; the vibrations on which the body based its sense of good or ill Healthremoved. They are replaced by something else, and something else of such a nature that good Health and illness have lost all meaning! Now, there is the sense of an established harmony among the cells, increasingly established among the cells, which represents the right functioning, whatever that may be: its no longer a question of a stomach or a heart or this or that. And the slightest thing that comes and disturbs that harmony is VERY painful, but at the same time there is the knowledge of what to do to reestablish the harmony instantly; and if the harmony is reestablished, the functioning isnt affected. But if out of curiosity, for instance (its a mental illness in humans), you start asking yourself, Whats that? What effect will it have? Whats going to happen? (what the body calls the desire to learn), if you are unlucky enough to be that way, you can be sure (laughing) that youll have something very unpleasant which, according to the doctor (according to ignoramuses), becomes an illness or disrupts the bodys functioning. While if you dont have that un Healthy curiosity and, on the contrary, will the harmony not to be disrupted, you only have to, we could say poetically, bring one drop of the Lord on the troubled spot for everything to be fine again.
The body is unable to know things in the way it did formerly.
0 1963-07-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Your Healthall right?
All right, Mother.
Good. Thats the one thing neededimportant, very important: to keep the body in good Health, in a sort of balance. We must keep our balance. Very important. The rest doesnt matter!
(Mother laughs and so does Satprem)
0 1963-08-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You were in a sort of golden light, rather solid, and then from here (the throat) down to here (the solar plexus), there were all the Tantric colors, you know, all the shades. I dont know if you have ever seen them: the Tantrics have an atmosphere with all the colors, not mixed together but side by side. Its a kind of chart of powers, and according to the color they select and pick out, or use, it serves one purpose or another: one is for Health, another for progress, another for understanding, and so forth. That chart was with you, and I saw your hand moving as if you were writing.
I see those colors, I always see them in association with those who have practiced Tantrism. X always has them with him, and with his guru,1 its even much more, very strong and very intense.
0 1963-09-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Someone disappears, people ask me where he is, whether hes dead or alive. Someone else has worries: he wants to see me. Someone People I dont know at all! A stack of letters! They ask me for success in their business, for good Health, for a child (a boy!), a good job. Anyway everything that people are capable of wanting, they write and ask me. Oh, there are also those who ask me to tell their fortune! Many ask me, but I answer them bluntly, I am not a fortuneteller, I dont read tea leaves!
(Mother scribbles a note)
0 1963-09-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(The beginning of this conversation was to disappear, but Satprem chanced on it on a second track of the tape-recording. He found it charming and inserted it back here. Quite often he deleted these beginnings of conversations.... Here the subject was his Health, Sujata having written to Mother that it was deteriorating" and proposed that a supplementary diet be given him.)
So, let me contemplate you! (laughter)
0 1963-10-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo told me that there are three difficulties, and they are the three things that have to be conquered for the earth to be ready (this is from the purely outward point of view, I am not speaking of psychological factors): government, money, Health.
Of the three, Health is the most directly connected to the inner transformation, but not completely so because it constantly depends on what comes in from outside: influences, vibrations the contagion from the outside. You have to eat: everything you receive along with foodits fantastic! Theres so much that eating represents a considerable work the physical digestion is nothing, but the work of assimilation and adaptation of all the rest is considerable. Consequently, of the three, Health is the most directly under the influence of the inner progress, but, as I said, not completely so. Therefore, that too has to be conquered.
As for money, when Sri Aurobindo was here there was no problem: all that we needed came. Yet the last two years were beginning to be more difficult and he kept saying, I think I already told you, that it resulted from the wrong attitude of the people around; that this wrong attitude represented a considerable problemit has gone from bad to worse, it has become quite acute.
As for government, it has followed an opposite curve: in the beginning, it was frightfully hostile, I mean, simply to be able to stay here we had to struggle every minute. And Sri Aurobindo told me that probably both Health and money would give way at once; maybe Health first and money afterwards, but not with a big difference. And he added, As for the government, there is but one solution, only one: it is to BE the government. If you are not the government, you will never be able to conquer it, except when the earth is transformed but then there wont be any work left! This is the situation. Things have been like this for forty, fifty yearsmore than forty years.
But because of my inner work, I become increasingly aware of things, increasingly aware of the Care, the Solicitude and the hierarchical Organization of circumstances so that the most precious and useful thing for the divine work is favoredof course not conspicuously so, but inwardly. And yet, in the three domainsgovernment, money and Healththings always reach a POINT, a point of such tension and complication that if you didnt have the inner certitude, they would always seem to point simply to the catastrophe, the fall. And its ALWAYS at that point that (gesture of abrupt reversal) everything turns aroundnot before, not one minute before.
Its not to give me faith I have it; its not to give me consciousness I have it; its for an outward reason. I cannot yet grasp why. Because inwardly, even if I were told that everything would be demolished in the most tragic manner, I would say, Very well. And in all sincerity, you know, nothing anywhere in me starts protesting or vibrating, nothing at all. I say, All right. But I see I do see that in that tension, a certain power is released, like a power intense enough to cure a tamas, to change a tamas.1
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Your Health isnt good?
Not too good either.
0 1964-01-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But there is a considerable difference between the real fact, that is, what this body [Mothers body] represents, and Xs conception. He has always remained all the way down. This is what, in fact, had ruined his Health for a time. And the odd thing is that every time he was ill and CONSENTED to inform me, he was instantly curedhe KNOWS this, but still his first instinct is always to turn to the gods with his ordinary puja.
It was the same thing with you I saw that. He regards you like this (gesture of looking down on Satprem), and then, youre not a pundit (!), you havent had the religious education of the countryhe regards you as a beginner, he isnt at all conscious of where your mind is, of where your mind can reach. I told him, but even that he doesnt quite understand. But once, I saw (it was at the time when I was giving him meditations downstairs), he had made a remark that was quite preposterous on the fact that people here meditated with eyes closed and that I, too, had my eyes closed when I meditated. It was reported to me. That was long ago, years ago. He was going to come and see me the next morning, so I said, Wait, my friend, Ill show you! And the next day, I meditated with my eyes open (Mother laughs)the poor man! When he went downstairs, he said, Mother meditated with her eyes open, she was like a lion!
0 1964-01-29, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And yet, difficulties pour in from everywhere, not only with regard to Health (which is still linked to moral things: the mood, the state of consciousness, the thoughts and mental formations, etc.), but to money, the paper money which refuses to come! And in this connection, lately I have seen in a fairly interesting way the difference in the material mental atmosphere: there was a sort of certainty that all that was necessary would come somehowit was impossible for it not to come (I am referring to the general atmosphere); then it was replaced by you know, like when you bang your nose against a wall! That sort of very childlike, carefree trustvanished! It just vanished So I had to look deeply at it, at what was behind, and thats how I saw this change in the Inertia (how is it going to express itself? I dont know; in what way?), which I had never seen before.
It is something there, down below. Before, it was here (gesture to the level of the forehead), like this, in the atmosphere; now, its there (gesture at ground level), that is to say, very low.
0 1964-05-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Regain your Health in Brittany and come back revived to resume your work with me. So many things are going to fly away into oblivion.
With all my tenderness and blessings.
0 1964-06-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You do not tell me anything about your Health. I assume it is good thanks to the air of Brittany and that you will come back with a brand-new system.
See you soon, mon petit, I am with you, but I will be happy to have you back here.
0 1964-09-16, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is probably why there are so many difficulties (difficulties are piling up here: difficulties of character, difficulties of Health and difficulties of circumstances), its because the consciousness awakens under the impulse of difficulties.
If everything is easy and peaceful, you fall asleep.
0 1964-10-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From the standpoint of money, its serious, the situation is serious. From the standpoint of Health, everybody is sick. And from the standpoint of quarrels (!), the quarrels are more bitter, but they are indicative, in the sense that those who quarrel realize that they have made a blunder, that its something serious.
Recently (it began yesterday), something has cleared in the atmosphere. But there is still a long way to goa long, long way. I certainly feel it very long, we must endure. Endure and endure. Thats the main impression: we must endure. And have endurance. The two absolutely indispensable things: keep a faith that nothing can shake, not even an apparently complete negation, even if you are suffering, even if you are miserable (the body, that is), even if you are tiredendure. Hold on tight and endurehave endurance. There. With that, its all right.
0 1964-10-10, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As Satprem prepares to leave, Mother inquires about his Health:
Now, the last stage is that the body should forget it has been ill; thats very important.
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But with regard to Health, whenever I had an illness (for me it was never an illness, it was still part of the blows), I had a trust, a complete assurance that it had no reality. And very young (very young, maybe around the age of thirteen or fourteen), every time a blow came, I would tell my body, But whats the use of being ill since youll just have to get well! And that stayed until I was over thirty: whats the use of being ill since you have to get well? And it faded away only little by little, with that growing pessimism.
Now I have to undo all that work.
0 1964-10-30, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it keeps increasing, and that sort of crouching is greatly lessened by the knowledge and experience that if you are per-fect-ly calm, all goes wellalways, even in the worst difficulties. Very recently, the day before yesterday, there was (always on the physical level; it cant be called Health, but its the bodys functioning) a rather serious attack, which found expression in a rather unpleasant pain; it came with unusual brutality. Then, immediately, the body remembered and said, Peace, peace Lord, Your Peace, Lord, Your Peace and it relaxed in Peace. And in an objectively perceptible way, the pain went away.
It tried to come back and then went away, tried to come back and went away. The process lasted the whole night.
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But with regard to Health, are you better? Or arent you?
Im all right. But I have a very strong feeling of being surrounded by threats.
0 1964-11-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Afterwards, for the rest of the day, it was as if the body were asking, or were encouraged to ask (usually, it doesnt ask, it doesnt even ask for Health or anything), and for the first time yesterday in the afternoon, it seemed to be saying, with a sort of aspiration almost not formulated in words, but with the feeling and impression: Am I not going to be ready for You to live in these cells? For these cells to be You? Words spoil it because they give a somewhat brutal and hard precision, but it was as if the cells were saying, Never will we have that marvelous Peace. It was a peace, but a peace full of creative power, and so rich, containing an infinite power, rich with joy; and it gave the body the courage to say, We will be THAT only if You are here, and You alone.
Sri Aurobindo wrote, Every event (like every moment of life) will be a marvel when it is the marvelous Whole that lives that lives in the body. This was really like the expression of what the body felt. And it is its ONLY raison dtrethere is no other, all the rest It went through every disgust, every disdain, every indifference, to the point where it asked, But how can we live? What for? Why, why do we exist, why were we created? Why? All that is nothing! And strangely, there was a sort of memory of the eons of time during which people lived in this ignorance of the why and in a sort of bewilderment. That so much time could have been spent to find the only thing the only thing that exists! And why all that, why? All that, centuries of absurd sensations. It was curious: like a slow memory of a futile and useless lifeabsurd and so painful! Why all that in order to find THAT?
0 1964-11-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From the standpoint of Health, its terrible. And Health doesnt exist, it means nothing; it no longer means anything. Disease no longer means anything, it really doesnt: its distortions of vibrations and shiftings of vibrations, and (what can I call it?) encrustationsfrom the point of view of movement, its like bottlenecks, and from the point of view of the cell, its like encrustations: its what remains of the old Inertia out of which we came.
But its double: there is Inertia on one hand, and on the other vital perversion the NERVOUS perversion of the vital world, of the vital influence. There isnt just Inertia: there is a sort of perverted ill will. You can easily (relatively easily) drive it out and eliminate it entirely from conscious mental and vital life; that work, which in the past was considered as, oh, a tremendously difficult thingchanging an individuals natureis relatively easy; all in the nature that depends on the vital or the mind is relatively easy to change, very easy. I am not saying very easy for the ordinary man, but very easy in comparison with the work in Matter, in the cells of the body. Because, as I told you last time, their goodwill is undeniable and their thrust towards the Divine has become absolutely spontaneous: all that is conscious is luminous but the trouble is all that isnt yet conscious! Its the mass of all that isnt yet conscious and is, then, tossed between two influences, one as odious as the other: the influence of Inertia (gesture of dazed sluggishness), of the MASS that stops you from moving forward, and the influence of vital perversion and ill willits this influence that makes everything crooked, that distorts everything.
0 1964-12-23, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am sending it to you with all my love so that it may be the sign of the arrival of perfect balance and total Health.
Blessings
0 1965-04-30, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
How can I explain? (Smiling) It was like a round of inspection of the spiritual sanitary conditions of the different lodgings (1). I am putting it like this, but it was rather curious; it was like a force, yes, or a sort of consciousness that came to inspect the different premises from the standpoint of spiritual Healthit was rather curious, interesting. It had started with a visit to my own rooms here; then I asked for the explanation of the principle, if I may say so, on which that inspection was based, and when the explanation was given, I said, Well, lets go and see Satprems home, then. And I even had a sort of feeling that you didnt know (mind you, in fact I knew nothing about it, its just what I saw last night) that the mosquito netting they put at your place is mine, the one that was here before.
Yes.
0 1965-05-08, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When people write me long letters (what letters I receive! laments all the time: my Health is going wrong, my work is going wrong, my relationships are going wronglaments all the time), and I always see, behind, that Consciousness, luminous, magnificent, marveloussun-filled, you knowexactly as if to say, Whenever will you be cured of that mania! The mania of the tragic and the lower.
Somewhere in the reason, one understandsit isnt that reason doesnt understand, but the reason has no power to make this matter obey.
0 1965-06-14, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A little earlier, Satprem had returned to the attack and asked again for Mother's permission to stop his meat diet and return to simple vegetarian food. Mother had refused because of Satprem's state of Health.
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0 1965-06-23, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
H. hopes so! (Mother laughs) I didnt say either yes or no to her, I told her, The Lord will decide. It depends on my Health. Moving from hereno: I am here because of the Samadhi, I remain here, thats quite certain; but I can go there on a visit (its not so far away, it takes five minutes by car). Only, H. wants to be in peace, silence, far from the world, and its quite possible in her park with a road around it and someone to stop people from enteringone can be really in peace but if I am there, thats an end to it! There will be collective meditations and so on. So if I have signs (physical signs, first), then the inner comm and to go out, I will go there in a car and spend an hour in the afternoon I can do it from time to time. We still have time, because it will take years before everything is ready.
You mean the disciples will remain here.
0 1965-07-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are three states, we could say: the state of Harmony that is the one we reach towards all the time, and sometimes we catch it for a few seconds, then everything works out as if by miracle; then the usual state of Disorder, in which we are constantly on the verge of something unpleasant, in a precarious balance; and when the disorder grows more visible, there is what they call an illness, but it isnt real. You see, we think the body is in good Health, that its balanced, and that something is introduced from outside, which causes you to fall ill, but its not like that! We are ALWAYS off balance, the body is always off balance (more or less), and it is something else, above, a Will or a Consciousness, that holds it up and makes it work. So if we can call on that Will that Will for Harmony and if we can have the Flame within, that Flame of aspiration, and make contact, we emerge from so-called illness, which is unreal, an unreal and false sensation and just one way of being of the general Disorder, and we enter into Harmony, and then everything is fine. Last night I experienced this again, and thats why I can assert with certainty: all sensations are false.
But when there are obvious external signs, bleeding, for instance [hemoptysis]?
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You know the play by Jules Romains in which the doctor declares that a Healthy man is a man who doesnt know he is sick? Well, thats the feeling it gives; the disorder is constant, and just because we live in another consciousness we dont see it, but if we observe we are sure to find it. You know, if I observe from that angle, there is absolutely nothing anywhere that is normal, that works harmoniouslynothing. Everything is like this (same zigzag gesture) and its chaos, and it keeps on working simply because it isnt left to itself, because there is a higher Will that uses all that, making the best of a bad job. But it is a bad job.
I have looked at all the cases (because it interests me a lot), I have looked at your case, I have looked at her case, I have looked at every case, but there isnt one case in which one can say it is a true illness. The idea of illness is: a body (a physical being, anyway) that lives according to certain laws, till suddenly a disorder, something works its way into the body, establishes itself and upsets it; but its not that! Its not that: its something that isnt in order the body isnt in order; only, something predominates in the consciousness, something which is in contact with the disorder, but isnt bothered by it and keeps going. And I have done the same study with supposedly Healthy people: its the same thing. So the conclusion is that the full power should be released, which means that all that sort of disorderly muddle must be made to be governed by a higher Will that imposes itselfit imposes itself. Then, if order isnt completely restored, at least its kept within certain limits and the body can go on being used as an instrument for the Will that seeks to manifest.
I see this very clearly, not only for this body for the others too; but for this body, it is seen in the minutest details, because the observation is more constant: it would already have had at least a hundred reasons to die, and if it hasnt died, its not to blame. Its not to blame, its because there was something (which fortunately isnt a personal will) that said, No, go on! Go on, carry on, dont pay attention to yourself. Otherwise, its falling to pieces.
0 1965-08-04, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the minute you step into their hospitals, you are ill! Thats right, its as I say: its the medical atmosphere. Jules Romains said it: A Healthy man is a man who doesnt know he is sick. So a priori you are sickit goes without saying that you are sick. And if they dont immediately find whats wrong with you, its because you have the knack of hiding it!
But, oh, how many little experiences Ive had about this, and so interesting! Something is wrong here or there in the body, a small thing; as long as you dont pay attention to itas long, above all, as you dont mention it to anyone and you give it up to the Lord (if it happens to hurt, you give it up to the Lord), its all rightits fine, you arent sick: its a disorder somewhere. If you are unfortunate enough to utter a word about it to anyone, and especially to the doctor, whoever he is, it instantly becomes an illness. And I know why, its because the cells that are in disorder feel all of a sudden they are very important and very interesting persons! So then, as they are very interesting, they must make themselves still more interesting. If they have a movement that isnt harmonious, they exaggerate itit becomes even less harmonious in order to assert itself more.
0 1965-08-18, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Is your Health all right? The nights are better, arent they?
Yes, since you started making that cocoon, I havent been troubled anymore. But if you gave me a little consciousness, I would be glad!
0 1965-10-13, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So I told you just now that everything grates: thats the state the world is in WITHOUT the consciousness of this Presence. Even when people find that things are fine and they are happy, that anyway circumstances are supposedly favorable, and that everything is fine and they are in good Health and, humanly, everything sorts itself outit grates dreadfully in comparison with the other state.
Then you can only smile. Instead of being affected because this one is in a bad mood and that one got angry and things go wrong and people fight each other and the elements cause hurricanes, instead of being saddened, you can only smile. You can only smile, because everything, but everything is the same the good and the bad, the luminous and the darkeverything is the same and everything grates in comparison with that. And you see, the experience you have when you climb up there to find Him isnt the same thing, because you feel, Yes, up there everything is like that, its very fine, but when you come down here, its horrible. But thats not what I am referring to: its the experience RIGHT HEREright herein other words, what the world MUST be. What it must be, what obviously it will be when men permit it.
0 1965-11-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Later, about the Health of Sujata, who is eating next to nothing:
When I was six or eight, I used to eat with my brother, and to get ourselves to eat we were obliged to tell each other a story! We were given meat, you see, pieces of beefsteak, it was a nightmare! So my trick was to tell my brother, I am an ogre andbefore me is half an ox, and with each slash of my knife I would carve my ox!I would tell a story to myself and end up swallowing my beefsteak!
0 1965-11-13, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They should be scientists of life. The Chinese had that idea to some extent. I dont know how it is nowadays, but in the past each family had a doctor (a doctor could have a lot of families under his care), and the doctor was paid only when everyone was in good Healthif someone was ill, they stopped paying him! (Laughter) Voil.
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0 1965-11-23, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have noticed something very interesting. Suppose there is a pain, some sign or other that something in the body is out of order. In the consciousness in the consciousness you are absolutely indifferent, which means that whether its life or death, disease or Health, there is equality; but if the body reacts according to its old habit, What should be done to get over it? and all that it involves (I am not speaking of a reaction in the mind, but here, in the body), the thing takes root. Why? Because it has to stay there (laughing) to enable you to study it! If, on the other hand, the cells have learned their lesson and say right away, Lord, Your presence (without words the attitude), pfft! the thing goes.
Its no use if the thought does it, if the psychic consciousness, EVEN THE PHYSICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, does it: it must be the cells that do it. So the one who does it in the thought says, Here, I give myself to the Divine, I am ready for anything, I am in a state of perfect equality, and still I am ill! So what am I to believe? Thats not the point. In order to have an instantaneous action HERE (instantaneous, meaning what looks like a miracle, which isnt a miracle at all), there should instantaneously be, wherever a disorder has occurred for some reason or other, this: LordLord, this is You; Lord, we are You; Lord, You are hereeverything flies away. A sensation, an attitudeinstantaneously, hup! its over.
0 1965-12-31, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know (shall I be frank?), its purely a vital dissatisfaction. And I know that, because it has been (how can I put it?) my great difficulty with you. It was a hundred, a thousand times more violent formerly; now its beginning to calm down. Its a vital thats very intense in its desires (which may not be ordinary desires at all), but with a sort of almost aggressive intensity, and essentially dissatisfied. It was very, very strong before, years ago; now it has quieted down. But every time the vital comes into play (and one is obliged to let the vital play because of the physical Health; one cant calm it down totally because that would make the physical body suffer), its like that. It gives me, if you like, the impression of a cats vital! Cats have a wonderful vital (laughing), far, far more clever and intense than human beings have, but the cat claws, you know, and the feeling is: Im not happy, thats that. Im not happy! (Mother laughs)
No, but for instance, the first years when I was here, almost every night I had a sort of sign that I was moving along,1 making headwaytrifling signs, nothing to speak of: a car taking me along, a walk in a mountain, mere nothings, but they were telling me, Oh, good, Im getting on. Its all right, Im moving along. But for years now, not only have I had no sign, but all I see is negative things: I see pits, I see accidents, I see infernos, I see But I never see a sign telling me, Oh, yes, Im making headway. Its all right, Im getting alongnot that, never. So am I making headway? I dont know. What I am asking for is an encouragement, just a little gesture telling me, Yes, youre getting along, its all right. Youre getting along, dont fret.
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I told you, and I told you neither to make you happy nor to comfort you, I told you because its a fact I have myself observed with curiosity and interest: we are extremely close up above in the profound intellectual understanding and in the Great Light. And this is expressed by an identity of experience in the intellectual consciousness. I am aware of your difficulties, I know them, Ive known them since the first day I saw you (and even before you came here); from that point of view there has been great progress, but it has shaken your physical Health, because of that struggle. I know that you can be completely cured, but in order for you to be completely cured, your vital must be converted, and what I call to be converted isnt to surrenderto be converted is to understand. To be converted is to adhere.
(Satprem lays his head on Mothers knees)
0 1966-01-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is at the moment a systematic demolition of all preconceived ideas, prejudices, habits, all the viewpoints the social, moral, hygienic, Health viewpointsit takes hold of everything, one thing after the other, and it demolishes it with such irony!
Last night it was about hygienic measures concerning food, and there was such a comical demonstration of how ignorant the precautions we take are and of all sorts of prejudices we have with scenes and pictures that would make priceless comedies on the stage, oh!
0 1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It may be good to remind you that we are here for a special work, a work not done anywhere else: we want to come into contact with the supreme consciousness, the universal consciousness, we want to receive it and manifest it. For that, we need a very solid base, and our base is our physical being, our body. We therefore need to prepare a solid, Healthy, enduring body, skillful, agile and strong, so it may be ready for anything. There is no better way to prepare the body than physical exercises: sports, athletics, gymnastics and all other games are the best means to develop and streng then the body.
Therefore I invite you to participate in the competitions beginning today wholeheartedly, with all your energy and will.
0 1966-04-13, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
She is a girl who has written to me several times (there are several like her), who has a well-built body, who should be quite solid and Healthy, but she has an emotive and sentimental vital, and (somewhat ironically) they arent loved as they would like to be loved. Result: one has a pain in her stomach, another has a pain elsewhere. Finally they write to ask me, Whats going on? And the other day, I said to myself, Why dont I tell them? So I wrote:
You feel lonely because you want to be loved. Learn the joy of loving without demand, just for the JOY OF LOVING the most wonderful joy in the world and you will never more feel lonely.
0 1966-06-08, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This constant correlation between the inner and the outer work is very interesting, like the preparation of this Bulletin,1 for instance. I can clearly see that the initial cause always comes from outside (outside with regard to this body), in the sense that the focus of the effort depends on the state of Health of the people around me, on a certain set of circumstances, and also on an intellectual work (like this Bulletin); those are the causes. Because here (gesture to the forehead), theres really a tranquil and silent stillness. So theres only what comes from outside.
And the body is increasingly conscious: it has a very acute perception of the vibrations coming from the old habits, from the old ways of being and from the opposition, and of the presence of the True Vibration. So its a question of dose and proportion, and when the amount, the sum total of the old vibrations, the old habits, the old responses, is too great, that creates a disorder which takes stillness and concentration in order to be overcome, and which gives such a clear and intense perception of how precarious the equilibrium and existence are. And then, behind: a Glory. The Glory of the divine Light, the divine Will, the divine Consciousness, the eternal Motive.
0 1966-11-30, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday there came a letter from S.M.1 in which he said that Indira Gandhi is really relying on him in the hope of finding a way out and that things will improve a little. And he said that he hoped he would make the true spirit and knowledge triumph. Only, his Health isnt good, otherwise he would have there a wonderful opportunity to do something, because she calls him every day to ask him his advice on what should be done, and he is present at all the ministers meetings. Which means that the two things are really going together: the new movement and the apparent disorder.
Mother takes up the translation of Savitri:
0 1967-06-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(At the end of the interview, the conversation turns to Satprems Health and a certain haemoptysis.)
Tell your cells not to make a drama and youll see! If you know how to tell them
0 1967-06-17, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The safest and most Healthy attitude of the mind is like this one: we have been told in a positive and definite way that the supramental creation will follow the present one, so, whatever is in preparation for the future must be the circumstances needed for the advent whatever they are. And as we are unable to foresee correctly what these circumstances are, it is better to keep silent about them.
I wanted to tell you that I saw V. a few days ago, and he said that according to what he had felt or seen, he was ninety-five percent certain that a new conflict will break out around September or October, probably in the direction of Pakistan or China: between Pakistan and India or between China and India.
0 1967-06-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But now I remember what it was this morning: it was about physical Health and balance; because it was like an answer to a sort of call (or prayer or aspiration, anyway, as you like) that I had yesterday evening, and in the night it was as if I was being shown the mechanism to restore harmony in the bodys functioning.
And I made a special concentration for you, which continued this morning. Now I remember.
0 1967-07-05, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For instance, that relationship of simplicity (like that of a child) in which you very simply ask for the thing you feel the need for, but without mental complications; without explanations, without justifications, without all that useless farragosimply, Oh, I would like You have, for instance, quite a special feeling towards someone or something and you would like that someone or something to be perfectly harmonious, happy (which physically is expressed by good Health or favourable circumstances), and so, spontaneously, simply, you say, Oh! (you pray), Oh, may it be like that! And it happens. Then the thought (the general human thought): This has happened, therefore its the expression of the Truth. And it becomes a principle: This is true, this is the way things should be. But up above, in that Consciousness that global Consciousness in that total Harmony, those things in themselves, in their material expression (good Health, favourable circumstances) are of no more than minor importance, so to say, of almost nonexistent importance: things may be this way or that or this (they may be a hundred different ways), without its making any difference to the Harmony; but this particular way is chosen because of the simple, pure, candid beauty of the aspiration that is lovely, that is powerful in its simplicity. And, you know, without mental complication, without hypocrisy of any sort, without pretence of any sort: very simply, but from a luminous, pure, loving heart, without any egoism, just like that. So thats a lovely light which has its place; and because of it, things may be this way or that (good Health, favourable circumstances), it doesnt matter, its unimportant. Human beings attach importance only to the external form, to what has manifested; they say, Oh, this is true, since it isand its a passing breath of air. But the cause of it, its origin has a place in that total, universal Harmony: a disinterested goodwill, love devoid of egoism, trust that doesnt argue or reason, simplicityingenious simplicity for which evil doesnt exist.4 If we could catch hold of that and keep it That trust for which evil doesnt existnot trust in what takes place here: trust up above, in that all-powerful principle of Harmony.
(long silence, then Mother repeats this prayer:)
0 1967-09-13, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The other one, A.F., has poor Health, but if you recite poems of Sri Aurobindo to him, he becomes blissful! Neither of these two are ordinary children, obviously.
But Ill try the next time I see R. Its a coincidence but is there such a thing as a coincidence in the world? I dont believe in In the past (I dont know what became of him afterwards), but in the past Richard had some occult knowledge, that is I had given him enough occult knowledge for him to be able to leave his body and enter another. So did he try to do it? I know he wanted to come back here; especially after Sri Aurobindos departure, he took it into his head to come here.
0 1967-12-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its like a progressive victory over all constraints. So naturally, all the laws of Nature, all the human laws, all habits, all rules, they all become increasingly supple and finally nonexistent. Yet it is possible to keep a regular rhythm that facilitates actionits not contrary to this suppleness. But its a suppleness in the execution, in the adaptation, which comes and changes everything. From the point of view of hygiene, Health, organization, from the point of view of relationships with others, all that has not only lost its aggressiveness (because for that, it suffices to be wisewise and level-headed and calm), but also its absolutism, its imperative rule: thats completely gonegone.
And then you see: as the process grows more and more perfectperfect means integral, total, leaving nothing behindit NECESSARILY, inevitably means victory over death. Not that this dissolution of the cells which death represents stops existing, but it would exist only when necessary: not as an absolute law, but as ONE of the processes, when necessary.
0 1968-01-12, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So the result is Paul Richard had a quite un Healthy sexual side, not at all Healthy, far from it. He had much mental knowledge (a great deal, a very strong intelligence), but no spiritual life. So he wasnt an exceptional beingwhats happening to him is what must happen.
I have been trying to do something about the little one, but Something in his vital make-up is going to be warped, thats for sure. Well see.
0 1968-02-10, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The first is (one more English word) a reliance that is, it should lean on the Divine ALONE for support, for the source of its strength, its Health, its capacity; it means that all material rules and laws are rejected and must cease to have any importance.
Thats the bodys experience almost every minute.
0 1968-04-10, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As this vision grows clearer Its a long, long time, years and years, since the sense of possession went away; thats childishness, its nothingits so silly! Will you tell me what pleasure a man can take in keeping heaps of papers in a box or in his wall! A real pleasure he cant have. The height of pleasure is that of the miser who goes and opens his box to look at it thats not much! Some people love to spend, they love to possess and spend; thats different, they are generous natures, but unregulated, unorganized. But the joy of enabling all TRUE needs, all NECESSITIES to express themselves, thats good. Its like the joy of turning an illness into good Health, a falsehood into truth, a suffering into joy, its the same thing: turning an artificial and stupid need, which doesnt correspond to anything natural, into a possibility which becomes something quite naturala need for so much money to do this and that which needs to be done, to set right here, repair there, build here, organize there thats good. And I understand one may enjoy being the transmitting channel for all that and bring money just where its needed. It must be the true movement in people who enjoy (thats when it becomes stupid selfishness) who need to hoard.
The combination of the need to hoard and the need to spend (both of them ignorant and blind), the two combined can make for a clear vision and a utilization as useful as possible. Thats good.
0 1968-05-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I might put it this way: the impression I got, but a very strong one (very strong, it lasted for at least two days, it was very strong), was of Catholicism defending itself. And as in the mental region they couldnt touch P.L, they reached him from below and ruined his Health they know how to do all that, they are very skilled occultists.
And he didnt have this immense balance (vast gesture above) thanks to which none of that has any effect. Hes still open.
0 1968-06-15, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For a few days, and its becoming increasingly established, there has been an impression that Health or illness is a choice (to express it simply). A choice of every minute. For this body, at any rate, thats how it is.
It means abdicating with regard to the general functioning of the physical substance, of the body, and having illnesses you get cured of or not, depending on other laws than physical laws. But there is every minuteevery minute the possibility to choose the true consciousness, or there is, yes, a disorder or disequilibrium. Its something which is unable to follow the movement of progressive harmony, or sometimes even which doesnt want to. I am talking about cells and groups of cells.
0 1968-07-06, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Finally, a letter from P.L. telling the story: I somewhat restrained myself from writing to you and telling you about my new situation, which might have been precipitated at any moment. On my return, the Vatican adopted a dual policy: threats on one hand, and on the other, promotions and offers of fine situations. I had been absent from Rome since December 9: what strange illness could last such a long time? There was talk of subjecting me to a medical examination by three physicians, demanding the names of the clinics2 visited, and so forth. I consulted His Eminence and Msgr. R. Being expelled by the application of the rule suited no one neither my family, nor the Cardinal himself. So the solution was to take up my new post, assuring them that I had fully recovered: thus the investigations stopped; I was no longer prosecuted, my case was shelved. No doubt, curiosity and suspicion havent been allayed, but my life has gone back to routine, and after some time everyone will forget. I will see the Pope next month, and I may accompany him in his journey to Colombia at the end of August I will keep you informed. There is still the difficulty of his Health which may prevent the journey. All that I have just told you is quite external to myself and I hardly participate in it; Id rather write about my consciousness: it hasnt changedit has remained fastened to Mothers influence. I feel her protection; everything is easy, for she is with me; she gives me the suitable answer. Like a mantra, I repeat, Oh, Mother, with your help is anything impossible? More than that, the joy she has put in my heart remains unshakable. My thought flies away towards her, full of gratitude. Msgr. R. told His Eminence I had been at the Ashram: the Cardinal is delighted. R. has finished reading your book: in his mass he has preached Aurobindos ideas. He told me he has come into contact with Mother: he is going to write to her, and later will go and see her. He has accepted Aurobindos message as a solution for the world. I must still tell you the joy the telegram gave me: to Mother all my gratitude.
(Mother goes into a long contemplation)
0 1968-09-21, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Were not in good physical Health.
Oh! Whats wrong?
0 1968-09-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother laughs) By keeping good Health! By taking care to preserve the physical equilibrium.
Enough!
0 1969-01-29, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its going on. The difficulties of those around, of the work, of people, keep increasing, from Health to understanding (there seems to be a general crisis), but the Help and the Power keep increasing too. Its like a sort of demonstration.
But the difficulties are taking on rather unpleasant proportions.
0 1969-02-22, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the ordinary functioning of life, there is the sense of things are fine, which in people is expressed by a sensation of good Health, and on the other hand, disequilibrium, disorganization; well, now that opposition appears WHOLLY artificial: theres only a continuous movement, with transitions from one type of vibration to another type of vibration whose origin is (what should I say? Its not deeper, not higher, and truer gives only one side, its not that), anyway, superior in some waywords are idiotic, quite idiotic. Thats how it is, how it is all the time [this continuous movement]. So then, you are drawn to one place or another: its simply the play of our consciousness. But to an all-seeing consciousness, its a continuous and overall movement towards yes, thats it, its for this inert Inconscient to become the absolute Conscient. I dont know, I have a vague impression that theyve discovered that a certain intensity of movement (that is, what we call speed) results in a sense of immobility I have a vague impression that Ive been told that. But it corresponds to something. What Ive called peace in the message, that peace (I hesitate to speak because words are stupid), that peace, whats felt as peace, is a paroxysm of movement, but a general movementharmonious, general.
As soon as one speaks, it becomes a caricature.
0 1969-05-10, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And with demonstrations on people, imagine. Someone comes and implores me to die; so the only thing I do, and can do, is to establish contact in a constant and unalloyed way between (what should I call it?) the destiny of that body and the Supreme Consciousness, like that. And then, all kinds of things have taken place: one left in an hourdied absolutely Healthy, you understand. And very recently, I had another extraordinary example: someone comes and implores me to leave; so I put the full Force on himnow hes completely cured! They had brought him to me in a wheelchair, he couldnt walk now he trots about, he comes all alone! And hes old, very nearly ninety.5 Another was clinging on; then his daughter told me, He is unhappy, miserable, cant you make him leave? I looked, and I saw, tight like this (Mother squeezes two fingers together with all her strength), a black knot there. I told the daughter, Yes, I dont mind, but I cant cut his head off! (laughing) He is clinging on like this (same gesture). Two days later, gone!
My method is always the same, of course: full concentration of the Supreme Consciousness on the person, removing all obstacles. It works like this, like that (gesture of moving about here and there). And its like a factual demonstration that ALL the rules we have established in our consciousness, all of that is absolutely idiotic. It doesnt correspond to the truth. Theres something. There is something.
0 1969-06-25, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(For some time Mother's Health has been very upset. Most of her recent meetings with Satprem were spent in silent contemplation.)
Then there is little S.U. (do you know S.U.?), who isnt too happy with her work and asked me if I couldnt help her make some progress. So I told her, Read Satprems book. She started reading Satprems book. She told me If I dont understand something, what do I do? I said, If you cant understand, ask me. So yesterday, she quoted a bit of a sentence to me (you know how they do: they take a bit of a sentence and ask you, Whatever does this mean?!). I answered. It was a sentence in which it was said that there were two positions: the materialist and the spiritualist; then you mention me, saying we should take another position, a third position. She didnt understand (Mother gives Satprem the childs letter).1
0 1969-07-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Which means there is some progress. There is progress in the consciousness, but not yet in the equilibrium of Health; thats very difficult. It has become extremely sensitive and the least thing causes reactions. Well see.
(silence)
0 1969-08-16, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, not at all! Not at all, she was only afraid that She asked me, Is Satprem in good Health? I think you are!
Yes!
0 1969-09-13, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This Pope, in good Health, would be a very useful help to the work but theyll never let him be treated and cured. Those people are crooks, all of them.1
(silence)
0 1969-09-17, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Since about two years my Health is not normal. Not only in abnormal condition but it is so serious that struggle is going between life and death. It began with a little pain in chest and an uneasiness in the heart. After some time it slowly affected the whole body so much that many a time I feel as it will collapse just now. At such moments I only call Mother and Her Grace and as soon as I do it everything becomes all right and quite normal. I never consulted any doctor or tried any treatment. Even I did not let the people around me ever know about it, as I believe, from my childhood, that such attacks should not be brought in words. Sometimes, things happened very inexplicable, as more than two times I felt some force entering in my body to bring its end at once. But as I was always ready to face it with the call for the Grace every time it was forced to leave me enveloping with Grace. One night (mostly attacks come at night) I saw a woman aged forty or forty-five with dreadful face declaring, I am Death and have come to take you. Now you cannot escape. But I do not know how it happened that I got up and sat in my bed, challenging her with the Call of Mother and Her Grace. On this, the woman laughed making her face at me and to my surprise I heard her laugh with my physical ears and saw her with my physical eyes. But Mother, she disappeared in no time as soon as Graces presence was there and I found myself again in full strength, surrounded with Grace and Grace only. In this struggle I also have the experience of my real I in the heart of the Mother with infinite strength. I found Mothers Presenceno, Mother Herselfhours and hours with me (behind or front). Also I saw Mother in Her quite young body, so much different that for a moment I could not recognize Mother but Mother took me in Her Lap with immense Love
(after a long silence)
0 1969-12-27, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, as I said, for all the most ordinary activities of life, there is the demonstration that if the presence is tolerated (certainly in order to make you understand what it is), it can actually throw you off balance from the standpoint of Health, and that the only remedy is the disappearance of the egoand along with it, the disappearance of the whole discomfort. For the things we regard as the most indifferent, the most Its for everything, just everything, all the time, all the time, night and day.
But then, added to that is the complication of all the spots of incomprehension and discontent, which express themselves (gesture as of a truckload being dumped on Mother), as though they were unbridled and were coming out into the open. So all that pours down at the same time so that the experience may be total in every field.
0 1969-12-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have written to my Emperor Haile Selassie I, about Auroville International Township aim, and Ethiopia to be the second country to support this idea. He has written me a good letter. In his letter he has appreciated and admired your work very much. I wish you to bless him for peace of mind, good Health to live longpeace for his people.
They dont commit themselves too much! Anyway, theres a goodwill.
0 1970-03-04, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
135All disease is a means towards some new joy of Health, all evil and pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss and good, all death an opening on widest immortality. Why and how this should be so, is Gods secret which only the soul purified of egoism can penetrate.
Yes, yes (Mother nods approvingly), thats what I am doing right now. And one has be really persevering.
0 1970-03-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Health too is like that. The body will feel quite fine, and suddenly, as soon as some old movement comes back, ah things will grate and cry, oh! But the consciousness (in the body, I mean) is growing clearer and clearer, more and more precise.
The consciousness isnt an idea, its a sort of yes, a state of consciousness, an awareness of the Divines sole existence, of the sole Reality, and when its there, everything becomes wonderful (physically, materially). There are moments full of an intensity of harmony quite exceptional. But then, when things grate, mon petit, they grate horribly!
0 1970-03-14, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
386Medical Science has been more a curse to mankind than a blessing. It has broken the force of epidemics and unveiled a marvellous surgery; but, also, it has weakened the natural Health of man and multiplied individual diseases; it has implanted fear and dependence in the mind and body; it has taught our Health to repose not on natural soundness but a rickety and distasteful crutch compact from the mineral and vegetable kingdoms.
Admirable!
0 1970-03-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
393We ought to use the divine Health in us to cure and prevent diseases; but Galen and Hippocrates and their tribe have given us instead an armoury of drugs and a barbarous Latin hocus-pocus as our physical gospel.
399Man was once naturally Healthy and could revert to that primal condition if he were suffered; but Medical Science pursues our body with an innumerable pack of drugs and assails the imagination with ravening hordes of microbes.
400I would rather die and have done with it than spend life in defending myself against a phantasmal siege of microbes. If that is to be barbarous and unenlightened, I embrace gladly my Cimmerian darkness.
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No external measure can enable us to react against the harm caused by mental faith in the necessity of drugs. It is only by emerging from the minds prison and consciously soaring into the light of the spirit that, through a conscious union with the Divine, we will be able to let Him give us back the balance and Health which we have lost.
Supramental transformation is the only true remedy.
0 1970-04-04, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My Health problem [serious heart attacks] has led me to reveal many hidden elements in the body, like Mothers love, grace, and Mother herself with me. My body seems no more at the mercy of old beliefs. Thus, my confidence in the body is increasing more and more day by day, and I feel and see clearly that the body can throw away any kind of difficulty in it by coming in the contact with Mothers love and grace. One day, I asked Mother from within not to allow more such attacks which bring me almost to a condition of collapse every now and then and, Mother, it never came afterwards since about ten days!2
(Mother remains silent)
0 1970-08-22, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Since August 6, when Mother's attendant went away to be operated on for cancer, Mother has been in a very difficult state of Health. Several times Satprem could not see her, and when he did, she signaled that she could not speak. So too this time, except for this question:)
Do you have something to say?
0 1970-09-12, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When you do that in good Health and in movement, in action, its quite fine, quite lovely; but like this, as I am here, you know, with a physical helplessness, its terrible!
I dont think that, I dont think that, but I am there, not knowing, not knowing whats going on. So then its not particularly pleasant.
0 1971-01-16, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Health?
Yes, yes, Mother.
0 1971-05-05, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its rather Healthy sometimes, you know.
You think we should leave it, then?
0 1971-09-29, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was clear, very clear today, a sort of Pressure to say: Victory is Harmony; Victory is the Divine; and for the body, Victory is good Health. Any, any discomfort, any disease is a falsehood. It came this morning. It was very CLEAR. It was convincing, you know.
So its all right.
0 1971-12-01, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But when I am very quiet (at night, for instance), the new consciousness becomes clearer and clearer, but words cannot easily express it because its a kind of (how shall I say?) its almost as if a new mind were being formed (but not a mental one). And so speech, words are a poor means, while the direct communication is getting more and more precise and strong. Thats why I cant speak. Its purely physical. But the foundation of the physical poise, I mean the physical Health, is changing, that is, its being shifted: what used to be the condition of good Health is practically gone; it is gradually replaced by another condition, but which isnt there yet; so everything is in (gesture of instability), everything is no longer this, is not yet that. Thats how it is. Its inexpressible. Thats why I cant express myself.
(silence)
0 1971-12-25, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
More and more I am convinced that we have a way of receiving things and reacting to them that CREATES difficulties I am more and more convinced of it. Because, for example, I have rather unpleasant physical and material experiences about food. You know that for a very long time now I have completely stopped being hungry (I eat only to be reasonable, because one must eat, otherwise), and I have some small difficulty in swallowing, or breathing (ridiculous things), but everything changes depending on whether you pay attention to them or not, depending on an attitude like this (gesture of being focused on oneself) in which you watch yourself living, or an attitude in which youre (vast gesture) in things, in movement, in life; and a third attitude in which you pay attention only to the Divine. If you succeed in being like that all the time, there are no difficultiesand yet things are the same. Thats the experience: the thing in itself is as it is, but it is our reaction to it that differs. The experience is more and more conclusive. You see, there are three categories: our attitude with respect to things, the things in themselves (those two always give you trouble), and there is a third category in which everything, but everything is in regard to the Divine, in the Consciousness of the Divineall is marvelous, all is easy! And I am speaking of material things, of the material, physical life (for psychological things, weve known it for long), I mean material things like little discomforts of the body, or reactions, feeling pain or not, circumstances going wrong, not being able to swallow your dinner the most banal things you dont pay attention to when youre young and strong and in good Health (you dont pay any attention to them, and its like that for everyone), but when you live in the consciousness of your body and what happens to it and its ways of receiving things that come and so onoh, its misery! When you live in the consciousness of others, of what they want, what they need, their relationship with youits misery! But if you live in the Divine Presence and its the Divine who does everything, sees everything, is everything its Peaceits Peace, time has no duration, everything is easy and. Not that you feel joy or feel its not so its the Divine who is there. And its the ONLY solution. Thats where the world is going: the Consciousness of the Divine the Divine who does, the Divine who is, the Divine. So then, the same IDENTICAL circumstance (I am not speaking of different circumstances), the same IDENTICAL circumstance (its my experience these last few days, so concrete, you know, so concrete); day before yesterday I was sick as a dog, and yesterday circumstances were the same, my body was in the same state, all was the same and yet all was peaceful.
I am thoroughly convinced of that.
0 1972-05-27, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The old methods, the methods that even yesterday were effective and powerful, all seem nonexistent. Yet, side by side, when that Force comes, I concretely feel (and I have proof, a factual proof) that a simple expression of will, or even a simple vision of something is (Mother lowers her hands) all-powerful. Materially so. Some people on their deathbeds are returned to life; some Healthy people, brrt, suddenly pass awayto that extent, you know. Circumstances that seemed inextricable find marvelous solutionspeople themselves say its miraculous. Its not miraculous to me, its very simple: just like this (Mother lowers a finger). But its INDISPUTABLE. Indisputable and new in the world. No longer the old method, no longer a mental concentration or a mental vision, none of that (Mother lowers a finger): a fact.
A fact.
0 1972-10-11, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(After inquiring about Satprem's Health.)
And in general is it better?
0 1973-03-14, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the effect on me is odd: I have the impression that I am illtheres nothing wrong with me, I am in good Health, yet I have a constant impression of being ill.
The truth is, its the transition from the ordinary mental consciousness to the supramental consciousness. The mental consciousness panics in the presence of the supramental consciousness. The vibration is so different I feel one could die every minute. Only when I am very tranquil.
02.11 - New World-Conditions, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The geographical revolution has led inevitably to the economic revolution which is not less momentous, pregnant with prophecies of brave new things. We all know that the modern world was ushered in with the industrial revolution. As a result of this new dispensation, world and society gradually divided into two camps: on one side, the industrialists and on the other the agriculturists, or, in a general way, the possessors of raw materials. The Imperialists formed the first group, while the latter, dominated by these, belonged to the Colonies. The "backward" countries and people who could not take to industry, but continued the old system became a helpless prey to the industrial nations. Africa and Asia and the South American countries came under the domination of European nations, rather the West European Nations: they became the suppliers of raw materials and also the market for finished products. Also within the same country occupying the imperial status, there came a division, a class division, as it is called. A few industrial magnates or trusts (France had its famous Two-Hundred Families) monopolised all the wealth, became the top-dog, the "Haves", the others were mere hewers of wood and drawers of water, serfs and slaves, the "Have-Nots". Exploitation was-the motto of the age. The "exploiters" and the "exploited", this trenchant duality was the whole truth of the social scheme and that summed up the entire malady of the collective life. Then came the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution which brought to a head the great crisis and initiated the change-over to new conditions. The French Revolution called up from the rear of social ranks and set in front the Third Estate and gradually formed and crystallised, with the aid of the Industrial Revolution, what is known as the Bourgeoisie. The Russian Revolution went a step farther. It dislodged the bourgeoisie and installed the Fourth Estate, the proletariate, as the head and front of society, its centre of power and governmental authority. In the meantime there was developing in the bourgeois society, too, a kind of socialism which aimed at the uplift and remoulding of the working class into a total social power. But the process could not, go far enough. The Industrial League, no doubt, began to release some of its monopolies, delegate some of its power and authority to the Proletariate and sought an armistice and entente; but still it is they who wielded the real power and gave to society the tone and impress of their characteristic authority. The Russian experiment made a bold departure and attempted to build up a new society from the very bottom: the manual labourers, they who produce with the sweat of their brow and make a society living and prosperous must also be its rulers. Now whatever the success or failure in regard to the perfect ideal, the thing achieved is solid; certain forces have been released that are working inexorably in and through even contrary appearances, they have come to stay and cannot be negatived. The urge, for example, towards a more equitable distribution of wealth and wealth-producing implements; an even balancing of economic values has been growing and gathering strength: it has become an asset of the body social. Instead of an unfettered competition between rival agencies, the mad drive for a jealous and closely guarded appropriation (rather, mis-appropriation) by private cartels, there has arisen an inevitable need for a unitary or co-operative control under a common direction, whether it be that of the state or some other body equally representing the common interest. In other words, the principle of co-operation has now become a living reality, a thing of practical politics. All effort towards progress and amelioration, cure of social ills and regaining of Health and strength must lie in that direction: anything going the contrary way shall perforce be out of tune with the Time-Spirit and can cause only confusion, bring in stagnation or even regression.
First of all, the colonies, which mean practically the Eastern hemisphere, can no longer be regarded, even by those who would very much wish to, as the field of exploitation, the granary of raw materials or the dumping ground of finished articles. Industrialism, the spirit and urge of it at least, has reached these places too: the exploiters themselves have been instrumental In bringing it about. The growing industrialism in countries so long held in subjection or tutelage, as safe preserves, need not necessarily mean a further spell of keen competition. If we look closely, we see things moving in a different direction. It is self-evident that all countries do not and cannot grow or manufacture all things with equal ease and facility. Countries are naturally complementary or supplementary to each other with regard to their raw produce or industrial manufacture. And an inevitable give and take, mutual understanding and help must follow such an alignment of economic forces.
02.12 - The Ideals of Human Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A different type of wider grouping is also being experimented upon nowadays, a federal grouping of national units. The nation is taken in this system as the stable indivisible fundamental unit, and what is attempted is a free association of independent nations that choose to be linked together because of identity of interests or mutual sympathy in respect of ideal and culture. The British Empire is a remarkable experiment on this line: it is extremely interesting to see how an old-world Empire is really being liquidated (in spite of a Churchill) and transformed into a commonwealth of free and equal nations. America too has been attempting a Pan-American federation. And in continental Europe, a Western and an Eastern Block of nations seem to be developing, not on ideal lines perhaps at present because of their being based upon the old faulty principle of balance of power hiding behind it a dangerously egoistic and exclusive national consciousness; but that may change when it is seen and experienced that the procedure does not pay, and a more natural and Healthier approach may be adopted.
Now out of this complex of forces and ideals, what seems to stand out clearly is this: (i) the family unit remains for practical purposes,whatever breaking or modification affects its outward forms, the thing seems to be a permanent feature of life organization; (ii) the nation too has attained a firm stability and inviolability; it refuses to be broken or dissolved and in any larger aggregate that is formed this one has to be integrated intact as a living unit. The other types of aggregates seem to be more in the nature of experiments and temporary necessities; when they have served their purpose they fade and disappear or are thrown into the background and persist as vestigial remains. It seems to us that the clan, the tribe, the race are such formations. Regionalism, Imperialism (political, economic or religious) are also not stable aggregates.
02.13 - On Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
As we have said, a normally Healthy society is a harmonious welding of these four elements. A society becomes diseased when only one member gets inflated and all-powerful at the expense of others or whenever there is an unholy alliance of some against the rest. Priest-craft, the Church militant, Fanaticism (religious or ideological), Inquisition are corruptions that show themselves when the first principle, the principle of Brahminhood, becomes exclusive and brings in arrogance and ignorance. Similarly colonisation and imperialism of the type only too familiar to us are aberrations of the spirit that the second principle embodies the spirit of the Kshattriya. Likewise financial cartels, the industrial magnates, the profiteer, the arriviste are diseased growths in the economic body of a modern society which has forgotten the true Vaishya spirit that seeks to produce wealth in order to share and distribute fairly and equitably. The remedy of these ills society has suffered from is not the introduction of a fourth evil, the tyranny of the Fourth Estate of the proletariate. The Fourth was reduced, it is true, to a state of slavery and serfdom, of untouchability, at its reductio ad absurdum. The cure, we say, is not in blind revolt and an inauguration of the same evil under a new name and form, which means its perpetuation, but in the creation of a new life and soul, that can happen only with the creation of a new head and front Zeus-like that would give birth to the goddess of light and knowledge, inspirer of a true Brahminhood.
We repeat a fair and sure economic basis has to be found for the down-trodden, proletarian or other. For the proletariate is not the only unfortunate in the human society. There are whole groups of the unfortunate in the three other Estates also. Or perhaps if we like we can extend the meaning of the term "proletariate" and include in it all the less favoured sections of all the Four Orders.
02.14 - Panacea of Isms, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Communism cannot save humanity. For if it means the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, well, a Healthy normal society will not bear or tolerate it longno Dictatorship, whether of one or of many, is likely to endure or bring in the millennium. In that sense communism is only a fascismo of small people fighting against a fascismo of big people. A society is not normally made up of proletarians only: it does not consist merely of lotus-eaters nor does it consist of hewers of wood and drawers of water (peasants and labourers) alone. Even a proletariate society will slowly and inevitably gravitate towards a stratification of its own. In its very bosom the bureaucracy, the military, the officialdom of a closed body will form a class of its own. A Lenin cannot prevent the advent of a Stalin. Even if the proletarians form the majority, by far a very large majority, even then the tyranny of the majority is as reprehensible as the tyranny of the minority. Communism pins its faith on struggle the class struggle, it says, is historically true and morally justifiable. But this is a postulate all are not bound to accept. Then again, if communism means also materialism (dialectical or any other), that also cannot meet and satisfy all the needs and urges of man, indeed it leaves out of account all the deeper yearnings that lie imbedded in him and that cannot be obliterated by a mere denial. For surely man does not live by bread alone, however indispensable that article may be to him: not even culture the kind admitted by communism, severely intellectual, rational, scientific, pragmaticcan be the be-all and end-all of human civilisation. Communistic Russia attempted to sweep away all traces of religion and church and piety; the attempt does not seem to have been very successful.
As a matter of fact, Communism is best taken as a symptom of the disease society suffers from and not as a remedy. The disease is a twofold bondage from which man has always been trying to free himself. It is fundamentally the same "bondage which the great French Revolution sought most vigorously and violently to shake offan economic and an ideological bondage, that is to say, translated in the terms of those days, the tyranny of the court and the nobility and the tyranny of the Church. The same twofold bondage appears, again today combated by Communism, viz., Capitalism and Bourgeoisie. Originally and essentially, however, Communism meant an economic system in which there is no personal property, all property being held in common. It is an ideal that requires a good deal of ingenuity to be worked out in all details, to say the least. Certain religious sects within restricted membership tried the experiment. Indeed some kind of religious mentality is required, a mentality freed from normal mundane reactions, as a preliminary condition in order that such an attempt might be successful. A perfect or ideal communism may be possible only when man's character and nature has undergone a thorough and radical change. Till then it will be a Utopia passing through various avatars.
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Again, Nationalism is also not the summum bonum of collective living. The nation has emerged out of the family and the tribe as a greater unit of the human aggregate. But this does not mean that it is the last word on the subject, that larger units are not to be found or formed. In the present-day juncture it is nationalism that has become a stumbling-block to a fairer solution of human problems. For example, India, Egypt, Ireland, even Poland, whatever may be the justifying reasons, are almost exclusively, chauvinistically, nationalistic. They believe that the attainment of their free, unfettered, separate national existence first will automatically bring in its train all ideal results that have been postponed till now. They do not see, however, that in the actual circumstances an international solution has the greater chance of bringing about a happier solution for the nation too, and not the other way round. The more significant urge today is towards this greater aggregationPan-America, Pan-Russia, Pan-Arabia, a Western European Block and an Eastern European Block are movements that have been thrown up because of 'a greater necessity in human life and its evolution. Man's stupidity, his failure to grasp the situation, his incapacity to march with Nature, his tendency always to fall back, to return to the outdated past may delay or cause a turn or twist in this Healthy movement, but it cannot be permanently thwarted or denied for long. Churchill's memorable call to France, on the eve of her debacle, to join and form with Britain a single national union, however sentimental or even ludicrous it may appear to some, is; as we see it, the cry of humanity itself to transcend the modern barriers of nationhood and rise to a higher status of solidarity and collective consciousness.
Internationalism
03.04 - Towardsa New Ideology, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We have to recognise that man, in his individual as well as in his collective being, is a complex entity, not something simple and one -dimensional. The Healthy growth of himself and his society means a simultaneous development on many lines, all moving together in concord and harmony. And this movement of all-harmony can be found only when the movements are initiated from the very source of harmony which is the soul Certain soul-principles that seek expression in life today thatare necessary to the age or to the coming age, have to be recognised and each given a field and a scope. That should be the basis of social groupings. And a composite variety of grouping with strands and strata, each expressing a particular mode of being of the one group-soulwhich in its turn is an aspect of the Vishva Purusha in his playis the ideal pattern of social organisation. What exactly the lines of grouping would be need not and perhaps cannot be settled now; a certain preliminary growth and change of consciousness in man is necessary before anything definite and precise can be foreseen as to the form and schema that consciousness will manifest and layout.
Still some kind of hierarchy seems tobe the natural and inevitable form of collective life. A dead level, however high that may possibly be, appears to be rather a condition of malaise and not that of a stable equilibrium. The individual man cannot with impunity be brains alonehe becomes then what is called "a barren intellectualist", "an ineffectual angel" ; nor can he rest satisfied with being a mere hewer of wood and drawer of waterhe is no more than a bushman then. Like-wise a society cannot be made of philosophers alone, nor can it be a monolithic construction of the proletariat and nothing but the proletariat-if the proletariat choose to remain literally proletarian. As the body individual is composed of limbs that rise one upon another from the inferior to the superior, even so a Healthy body social also should consist of similar hierarchical ranges. Only this distinction should not mean and it does not necessarily meana difference in moral values, as it was pointed out long ago by Aesop in his famous fable. The distinction is functional and spiritual. In the spirit, all differences and distinctions are based upon and are instinct with an inviolable and inalienable unity, even identity. Differences here do not mean invidious distinction, they are not the sources of inequality, conflict, strife, but make for a richer harmony, a greater organisation.
However the crucial point arises herehow is the collective life, the group existence to be made soul-conscious? One can understand the injunction upon individuals to seek and find their souls; but how can a society be expected to act from its soul and according to the impulsions of its soul? And then, has a collectivity at all a soul? What is usually spoken of as the group-soul does not seem to be anything spiritual; it is an euphemism for herd instinct, the flair of the pack.
03.06 - The Pact and its Sanction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
So we have to see the type of cells that grow and become consciously active in the body politic. It is sattwalight that brings in knowledge and harmony. And the movement for reformation and growth among the mass has to be inspired by that quality or mode of consciousness. A sound and Healthy structure can be raised effectively upon that basis alone. The man in the mass, as I have said and as is well known, is a good-natured malleable material, but it is ignorant and inert: it can easily be worked upon by any kind of strong force, worked up to any kind of mischief. Shakespeare has made us very graphically familiar with the reaction of a mob and that remains true even today. Even if right direction is there at the top, at the higher governmental level, reflecting the mind of the true intelligentsia, a well-meaning plan is doomed to failure if it does not touch and move the middle strata that are the real executive agents.
The government in modern times represents indeed the executive power of the nation, itself is composed of the three social elements we speak of. First of all, the high or top-ranking officials, as they are called, who can think out and initiate a policy; next, the intermediate services who form the dynamic limb of the organism; lastly, there is the rung of the subordinate services. Here too the difficulty is with the intermediate grade. It is there that the "disaffected" are born and breddisaffected not because of grievances or injustices done, but because of the urge of ideals and purposes, ideas and designs. The subordinate manpostman, railwayman, clerk, school master, daily labourerhas no ambitions, is not tortured by nostalgic notions: left to themselves, these people accommodate themselves to circumstances and take things as they come without worrying too much. But the point is that they are never left to themselves. It is told to themnot without reason, though that they do not live, they vegetate: they are dead, otherwise they would be living and kicking. The rousing of the masses has always been the sacred mission of all reformers and saviours of humanity. For they form the bulk of humanity and its future is bound up with their destiny.
03.07 - Brahmacharya, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The basis and the immediate aim of education according to the ancient system was to develop this fundamental mental capacity: the brain's power to think clearly, consistently and deeply, to undergo labour without tiring easily and also a general strength and steadiness in the nerves. The transference of nervous energy into brain energy is also a secret of the process of sublimation. It is precisely this aspect of education that has been most neglected in modern times. We give no thought to this fundamental: we leave the brain to develop as it may (or may not), it is made to grow under pressuremore to inflate than to growby forcing into it masses of information. The result at best is that it is sharpened, made acute superficially or is overgrown in a certain portion of it in respect of a narrow and very specialised function, losing thereby a Healthy harmony and homogeneity in the total movement. The intellectual's nervous instability is a very common phenomenon among us.
In recent times, however, we have begun to view children's education in a different light. It is being more and more realised that things are not to be instilled into the child from outside, but that the child should be allowed to grow and imbibe naturally. The teacher is only a companion and a guide: he is to let the child move according to its own inclinations, follow its own line of curiosity; he can open up and present new vistas of curiosity, seek to evoke new interests. Sympathy and encouragement on his side giving scope to freedom and autonomous development for the childthis is the watchword and motto for the ideal teacher.
04.02 - Human Progress, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This super consciousness is based upon a double movement of sublimation and integration which are precisely the two things basically aimed at by present-day psychology to meet the demands of new facts of consciousness. The rationalisation, specialisation or foreshortening of consciousness, mentioned above, is really an attempt at sublimation of the consciousness, its purification and ascension from baseranimal and vegetalconfines: only, ascension does not mean alienation, it must mean a gathering up of the lower elements also into their higher modes. Integration thus involves a descent, but it has to be pointed out, not merely or exclusively that, as Jung and his school seem to say. Certainly one has to see and recognise the aboriginal, the infra-rational elements imbedded in our nature and consciousness, the roots and foundations that lie buried under the super-structure that Evolution has erected. But that recognition must be accompanied by an upward look and sense: indeed it is Healthy and fruitful only on condition that it occurs in a consciousness open to an infiltration of light coming from summits not only of the mind but above the mind. If we go back, it must be with a light that is ahead of us; that is the sense of evolution.
A slumber did my spirit seal, Miscellaneous Poems
04.04 - A Global Humanity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The different limbs of an organism are held together and they work together harmoniously. The whole world, as we are finding it today, is indissolubly one. There is an inter relation and interaction that compel them all to stand together or fall together. This is, however, a static unity and harmony, a harmony that is in the being, in essence. For in the outward working there is always a play of discordquarrels and rivalries, competition and conflict, struggle and battle. Indeed this seems to be the rule, the other seems more an ideal than a fact. The unity that is found actually is rather the unity of a locked fight. Within the individual the same thing is there. There is a maladjustment among the organs and limbs, not only physically but also psychologically. But all the same beyond and beside this play of discord there is an inherent and overruling unity and harmony which creates the personality or individuality of the human person. The characteristic of the human person is his forward-looking gazehe has a purpose in life. This is exactly the dynamic element, the something more that is needed for the fulfilment of the organic unity. This element is what we know as the principle of progress which is the psychological name for evolution. In other words, there is in man and in the world not only a static unity and harmony in essence, but a progressive unity and harmony in manifestation. The individual moves towards the Health and growth of the body and mind and the spirit. If one life is not sufficient for the purpose, as some seers declare, several lives are at the disposal of the individual to achieve it. In what sense can the same or something similar be said of the collective or group life?
There is the view, an old-world view, of eternal recurrence. That is to say, creation is ever the same; it goes through a cycle of changes, but the cycles repeat ad infinitum. There is no progress, no forward movement towards a more and more perfection. Indeed, the cycle of creation is a closed circle. The idea of progress was very much in vogue at one time. It was born under the auspices of Romantic Idealism; it was fostered and streng thened by youthful, Science in the first enthusiasm of her early discoveries, especially that of the fact of biological evolution. There has, however, been a setback since, when it was found that the original picture of evolution the emergence and growth of species in the course of a few thousand years is far from being true, that evolution means not thousands but millions of years. And when archaeologists discovered that men could build hygienic cities, run democratic states, discuss and argue acutely on recondite problems of life and philosophy, women knew the use of ornaments and jewels of consummate beauty and craftsmanship in epochs when they were expected to be no more than wild denizens of the cave or the forest, the belief in human progress, at least along a steady straight line, was very much shaken.
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The aggregates are meant to express, apart from the growing unity, a diversity of achievements in the collective consciousness marking and enriching that unity. The highest, the largest aggregate attained at the present moment is as I have said, that of the nation, the lower and lesser aggregates have been subsumed under it. The principle of integration in its graded course is precisely this that the new unity absorbs the lesser units as its components, some find their place in it in a transmuted form and functionthose that are of use in the new dispositiono thers that had truth only for the past disappear or remain as vestiges of an extinct reality. The clan and the tribe have practically disappeared as living realities; the family has been maintaining itself still as a functioning unit, but it has considerably changed its features and in recent times it has been undergoing revolutionary transmutations. The rigours of the system prevailing in the old world have all but gone, they have been reduced to the minimum; the system has become more or less a mere outline, the substance and the details have become very vague and fluid. It may come out with quite a new connotation in the not very distant future. The nation, then, as the living unit of aggregation today, is on the move again towards a yet more enlarged aggregate. Empire was a blind and violent attempt at this greater aggregation. The Commonwealth of more recent times was a conscious, deliberate and Healthier endeavour towards the same goal. The various trials with regard to a league of nations is also a conscious and deliberate, although somewhat groping experiment in the same line.
Man's attempt to surpass himself and establish a superhuman race is a conscious and deliberate process and the attempt can be successful only through such an willed discipline, sdhan. In the same way, a supranational human unity will be possible as a parallel eventuality to the same process of individual discipline.
05.03 - The Body Natural, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
With regard to the food that man takes, there are two factors that determine or prescribe it. First of all, the real need of the body, that is to say, what the body actually requires for its maintenance, the elements to meet the chemical changes occurring there, something quite material and very definite, viz, the kind of food and the quantity. But usually this real need of the body is obscured and sumberged under the demands of another kind of agency, almost altogether foreign to it, (I) vital desire and (2) mental notions. Indeed, the menu of our table, at least 90% of it, is arranged so as to satisfy the demands of the second category, the consideration that should come first comes last in fact. The body is at present a slave of the mind and the vital; it is hardly given the freedom of choosing its own requirements in the right quantity and quality. That is why the body is seen to suffer everywhere and it normally sick for the greater part of its earthly existence. It has been compelled to occupy an anomalous position in the human organism between these two tyrants. The vital goes by its greed, its attraction and repulsion, its impulse to excess (sometimes to its opposite of deprivation); what it has been accustomed to, what it has taken a fancy for, to that it clings, and if the body has not what it prescribes, it throws the suggestion into the body that it will fall ill. The physical mind has its own notions and schemes, pet ideas and plans (perhaps from what has been read in books or heard from persons) in respect of the body's needs; it thinks that if a certain prescription is not followed, the body will suffer. The mind and the vital are thus close friends and accomplices in regimenting the body. They impose their own demands and prejudices upon the body which helplessly gets entangled in them and loses its native instinct. The body left to itself is marvellously self-conscious; it knows spontaneously and unfailingly what is good for its Health and strength. The animals usually, especially those of the forest, preserve still the unspoilt body instinct; for they have no mind to tyrannise over the body nor is their vital of a kind to go against the normal demands of the body. The body, segregated from the mind and the vital, can very easily choose the right kind of food and the right quantity and even vary them according to the varying conditions of the body. Common sense is an inherent attribute of the body consciousness; it never errs on the side of excess and immoderation or perversity. The vital is dramatic, the mind is imaginative, but the body is sanity itself. And that is not a sign of its inconscience and inertia. The dull and dumb immobility of which it is sometimes accused is after all perhaps a mode of its self-defence against the wild vagaries of the mind and the vital to which it is so often called upon to lend its support. Indeed, it may very well be that the accusation against the flesh that it is weak is only an opinion or suggestion imposed on the body by the mentalvital who throw the whole blame upon the body just to escape from the blame due to themselves. The vital is impatient and clamorous, and if it is all push and drive-towards physical execution and fulfilmentit is normally clouded and troubled and obscured and doubly twisted when counselled and supported by a mind, narrow and superficial, not seeing beyond its nose, bound within a frame of incorrect and borrowed notions.
The body, precisely because of its negative natureits dumb inertia, as it is calledprecisely because it has no axe of its own to grind, that is to say, as it has no fancies and impulsions, plans and schemes upon which it can pride itself, precisely because of this childlike innocence, it has a wonderful plasticity and a calm stability, when it is not troubled by the mind or vital. Indeed, the divine qualities that are secreted in the body, which the body seeks to conserve and express are a stable harmony, a balance and equilibrium, capable of supporting the whole weight of all the levels of consciousness from the highest peak to the lowest abysses even as physically it bears the weight of the entire depth of the atmosphere so lightly as it were, without feeling the burden in the least.
05.08 - True Charity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
True charity consists in laying the healing balm upon the sore that lies hidden behind all external miseries which derive from that source and sustainer. And it is in the sole possession of him alone who has found the bliss of the Spirit and dwells in it always. Such a person does not require external accessories for his work of healing and comforting. He need do nothing apparently; he may even appear to be aloof and indifferent. But his presence itself is a healing power: the patient feels it and wonders at the ease and happiness that come into him as if from nowhere. Many physicians have this kind of healing power; indeed without that, a mere medical man, with his pharmacopoeia, is no physician. It may not be well known and recognised, but it is a fact that a good part of the efficacy of medicines lies in the subtle influence, the vital Health, that the doctor puts into his medicine or even directly into the body of his patient. And in the case of a spiritual Bhishak, the power can be raised to the nth degree. The healer need not even be present at all physically near the patient; his influence can act very well from any distance. It is quite natural and inevitable that it should be so. For the healing power is in the spiritual consciousness, the inalienable bliss of one's status in the Spirit. One becomes identified with each and every objectperson or thingin one's own self, in the true being and substance; and the light and happiness that one possesses there inalienably go out in a spontaneous flow to others who are not really others but integral parts and portions of the same self.
This condition is attained, fully and sovereignly, when there is absolute egolessness, when there is no consciousness of a separate person, the dual consciousness of the helper and the helped, the reformer and the reformed, the doctor and the patient. The normal human sense of values is based upon such a division, upon egohood, mamatvam. A philanthropic man helps others through a sense of sympathy giving rise to a sense of duty and obligation. This feeling of pity, of commiseration is dangerous, for it puts you in a frame of mind that tends to make you look down upon, take a superior air towards your object of pity. You become self-conscious, with the consciousness of your inferior self, that you are helping others, doing good to the world, doing something that raises your value: this sense of personal merit is only another name for vanity. Vanity and ambition are the motive powers that lie behind the philanthropical spirit born of sympathy. To denote a shade of meaning different from what is usually conveyed by the word sympathy, modern psychology has I found another wordempathy. Sympathy may be said to be the relation or contact between two egos; it is a link or bridge between two separate and independent entities; empathy, on the other hand, means the entering into the I very being and consciousness of another, becoming that other one; it is identification and identity. This again is what I spiritual consciousness alone can do. Sympathy leads to! philanthropy, empathy is the origin of true charity, the spiritual I compassion of a Buddha or a Christ. Philanthropy is human, I charity (caritas) is divine.
05.11 - The Soul of a Nation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
India is offering a spectacle, of another tragedy. What is happening here is the attack of a disease that is convulsing the body politic: it seems to be a cancerous disease, the limbs seeking to grow independently at the expense of each other. The patient is passing through a very critical period and it is indeed a question of life and death. But we hopewe are : sure that the soul of this ancient nation will assert itself and I through whatever vicissitudes re-establish Health and harmony: for that soul's mission is yet to be done.
Like the individual a nation too dies. Ancient Greece and Rome, Egypt and Babylon and Chaldea are no more. What I has happened to their souls, it may be asked. Well, what happens to the soul of the individual when the body falls away? The soul returns to the soul-world. Like the individual Psyche the collective Psyche too goes and retires into the womb of peace and light with all its treasures, its beauty and glory gathered in, like a bird that goes to sleep within its folded : wings. What the Greek culture and civilisation was still continues to exist in its quintessential reality in a world to which one has access if one has the requisite kinship of consciousness and psychic opening. That soul lives in its own domain, with all the glory of its achievement and realisation at their purest; and from there it sheds its lustre, exerts its influence, acts as living leaven in the world's cultural heritage and spiritual growth.
06.31 - Identification of Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Consciousness being one and the same everywhere fundamentally, through your own consciousness you can identify yourself with the consciousness that inhabits any other particular formation, any object or being or world. You can, for example, identify your consciousness with that of a tree. Stroll out one evening, find a quiet place in the countryside; choose a big treea mango tree, for instance and go and take your seat at its root, with your back resting or leaning against the trunk. Still yourself, be quiet and wait, see or feel what happens in you. You will feel as if something is rising up within you, from below upward, coursing like a fluid, something that makes you feel at once happy and contented and strong. It is the sap mounting in the tree with which you have come in contact, the vital force, the secret consciousness in the tree that is comforting, restful and Health-giving. Well, tired travellers sit under a banyan tree, birds rest upon its spreading branches, other animalsand even beings too (you must have heard of ghosts haunting a tree)take shelter there. It is not merely for the cool or cosy shade, not merely for the physical convenience it gives, but the vital refuge or protection that it extends. Trees are so living, so sentient that they can be almost as friendly as an animal or even a human being. One feels at home, soothed, protected, streng thened under their overspreading foliage.
I will give you one instance. There was an old mango tree in one of our gardensvery old, leafless and dried up, decrepit and apparently dying. Everybody was for cutting it down and making the place clean and clear for flowers or vegetables. I looked at the tree. Suddenly I saw within the dry bark, at the core, a column of thin and and dim light, a light greenish in colour, mounting up, something very living. I was one with the consciousness of the tree and it told me that I should not allow it to be cut down. The tree is still living and in fairly good Health. As a young girl barely in my teens I used to go into the woods not far from Paris, Bois de Fontainebleau: there were huge oak trees centuries old perhaps. And although I knew nothing of meditation then, I used to sit quietly by myself and feel the life around, the living presence of something in each tree that brought to me invariably the sense of Health and happiness.
Another instance will show another kind of identification. It is an experience to which I have often referred. I was seated, drawn in and meditating. I felt that my physical body was I dissolving or changing: it was becoming wider and wider, losing its human characters and taking gradually the shape of a globe. Arms, legs, head were no longer there: it became spherical, having exactly the form of the earth. I felt I had become the earth. I was the earth in form and substance and all terrestrial objects were in me, animals and people, living and moving in me, trees and plants and even inanimate objects as part of myself, limbs of my body: I was the earth-consciousness incarnate.
06.35 - Second Sight, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is interesting to note that animals in the wild state maintain intact their instinctive capacity, their second sight, but begin to lose it when they live with men, come under the influence of human mind and reason, become domesticated. A cow habituated to free grazing in the fields will never touch the poisonous grass, will always avoid it and take only the harm-less and Healthy variety; but kept within the stable, accustomed to a closed life, it loses its natural instinct, gets confused, does not know how to distinguish the right from the wrong food, being always given ready-made things by the master.
Human contact has thus a harmful effect upon the animal's instinctive life. But in another way it may have an uplifting influence too. Some of the refined human sentimentssympathy, gratitude, faithfulness, self-sacrificein a pronounced human way find expression in animals that are domesticated and live close to man and within the human atmosphere. It is true many of these feelings are not totally absent in the animal kingdom (especially in the higher strata) in its natural or wild state, but they belong to the level of pure feeling or impulse and have not risen to the level of sentiments which have a mental element infused into their vital stuff. Indeed a strong mental element, a reasoning capacity sometimes very clearly develops in the domestic animal.
07.10 - Diseases and Accidents, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There is of course a relation between the mind and the body, quite a close relation. In most cases it is the mind that makes the body ill, at least it is the most important factor in the illness. I have said, there are people who keep their mind clear although their body suffers. But it is very rare and very difficult to keep the body Healthy when the mind suffers or is un-balanced. It is not impossible, but very, very exceptional. For I explained to you that it is the mind which is the master of the body, the body is an obedient and obliging servant. Unfortunately, one does not usually know how to make use of one's mind, not only so, one makes bad use of it and as bad as possible. The mind possesses a considerable power of formation and of direct action on the body. It is precisely this power which is used by people to make their body ill. As soon as there is something which does not go well, the mind begins to worry about it, makes formations of coming catastrophes, indulges in all kinds of imaginary dangers ahead. Now, instead of thus letting the mind run amuck and play havoc, if the same energy were used for a better purpose, if good formations were made, namely, giving self-confidence to the body, telling it that there is nothing to be anxious about, it is only a passing unease and so on, in that case, the body would be put in a right condition of receptivity and the illness pass away quietly even as it came. That is how the mind is to be taught to give good suggestions to the body and not to throw mud into it. Marvellous results follow if you do it properly.
When an accident happens there is in it a critical moment. For example, you slip and you fall. Now between the moment when you slip and the moment when you fall, there is just a fraction of a second when you are, as it were, given the choice. It can either be nothing or something very serious. Only to make the choice you must have a perfectly awakened consciousness and your being must be constantly in contact with the psychic. There is no time to bring in the contact, one must already be in contact. So, just between the slip and the fall, if the mental and psychic formation is sufficient, you come out unscathed. If, on the contrary, the body thinks, as it is its habit, Oh, I have slipped and becomes apprehensiveit is, as I say, a matter of a fraction of a second, even less then the catastrophe happens. You have the capacity to prevent an accident happening, you are given the choice at a momentary moment. But for that you must learn to be wide awake, to be fully conscious. When you are in that condition you can prevent an accident, you can stop an illness coming into you. But it is just the matter of a split second and you must not miss it.
07.27 - Equality of the Body, Equality of the Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Equality of the external being means good Health, a solid body, controlled nerveswhen you are not shaken by the least shock, when you are calm, quiet, poised, balanced. In that condition you can receive into you a great force in yourself from above (or, from the environing energy around you) and yet not get upset. If one of you at any time had received some such force, he must have known by experience that without a perfectly sound physical Health, one could not contain or hold it. You cannot remain still, you are restless, you move about, talk, cry, weep, jump or dance, just to throw out the energy you are unable to hold. You scatter about what it is not possible for you to gather and assimilate. In order to be able to gather and assimilate the force, the body and the nerves must be quiet and strong.
Equality of the soul is different; it is psychological, not physical. It is the power to bear the impact of things, good or bad, without being grieved or elated, discouraged or enthused, without any upsetting or disturbance. Whatever happens you remain serene and at peace. But both the equalities are necessary. There are many equalities, in fact. Apart from the equality of the vital and the equality of the body, there is also the equality of the mind proper. That is to say, all ideas from all quarters may come into your head, even the most contradictory: yet you remain quiet, untroubled, and even unconcerned. You are a witness, you see them, sort them, arrange them, put each idea in its proper place, appreciate the value of each, determine the relation of each to the other, and to the whole, but you are not swayed by any particular one.
08.21 - Human Birth, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The parents have naturally a particular formation, they have a particular kind of good or bad Health; at the very best, they have a lot of atavistic tendencies, habits, subconscious and even conscious complexes, deriving from their own birth, their environment and the life they have led. And even if they are remarkable people, in their own way, usually they carry an amount of things, that are contrary to the true psychic life, I mean, even if they are the very best, the most conscious. And when the parents have done their utmost to give their children the best education, the children come in contact with all kinds of other people who have a great influence upon them especially when they are very young; these influences enter into the subconscious and they have to be fought against later on.
So I say, because of the way in which the body is brought into being at present, you have to face innumerable difficulties, coming more or less from the subconscient, that rise to the surface with which you have to fight if you want to be free entirely and develop normally.
08.25 - Meat-Eating, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I will tell you then a story. I knew a young woman, Swedish, who was doing Sadhana. Normally she was a vegetarian, by habit as well as by inclination. One day she was invited to a dinner. She was given fowl to eat. She did not like to make a fuss and quietly ate her fowl. Now at night she found herself, in dream of course, in a basket and her head in between two bits of sticks and being shaken to and fro. She felt very unhappy, very miserable. And then she saw herself head down and legs up in the air and being shaken, shaken continually. She was thoroughly miserable. All on a sudden she felt she was being skinned, flayed and how painful it all was! And then someone came with a knife and cut off her head. She woke up at that. She told me the story and said she had never had such a frightful nightmare in her life. She had thought nothing of this kind before going to bed; it must have been simply the consciousness of the poor chicken that entered into her and she experienced in dream all the agonies of this creature when it was being carried to the market, her feathers pulled out and in the end the head severed. That is what happens. In other words, along with the meal that you take, you absorb also, in a large or small measure, the consciousness of the animal whose flesh you swallow. Of course it is nothing serious, but it is not always pleasant. Yet obviously it does not help you to be more on the side of man than on that of the animal kind. Primitive men, we know, were much nearer the animal level and used to take raw meat: that gave them evidently more strength and energy than cooked meat. They used to kill an animal, tear it to pieces and bite into the flesh. That is how they were robust and strong. Also it was for this reason perhaps that there was in their intestines an organ called appendix of a much bigger size than it is now: for it had to digest raw meat. As men however started cooking their food and found it more palatable that way the organ too gradually diminished in size and fell into atrophy; now it does not serve any purpose, it is an encumbrance and often a source of illness. This means that it is time to change the diet and take to something less bestial. It depends, however, on the state of the consciousness of each person. An ordinary man, who leads an ordinary life, has ordinary aspirations, thinks of nothing else than earning his livelihood, keeping good Health and rearing a family, need not pick and choose, except on purely hygienic grounds. He may eat meat or anything else that he considers helpful and useful, doing good to him.
But if you wish to move from the ordinary life to a higher life, the problem acquires an interest. And again, for a higher life if you wish to move up still farther and prepare yourself for transformation, then the problem becomes very important. For there are certain foods that help the body to become more refined and others that keep it down to the level of animalhood. But it is only then that the question acquires an importance, not before. Before you come to that point, you have a lot of other things to do. It is certainly better to purify your mind, purify your vital before you think of purifying your body. For even if you take all possible precautions and live physically with every care to eat only the things that help to refine the body, but the mind and the vital remain full of desire and inconscience and obscurity and all the rest, your care will serve no purpose. Your body will become perhaps weak, disharmonious with your inner life and drop off one day.
09.11 - The Supramental Manifestation and World Change, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I may add one word, a practical word, to what I have already said; it is an illustration of a detail, but it will be a kind of reply to some other questions put to me some time ago about the so-called laws of Nature, causes and effects, inevitable consequences in the material world, more particularly from the point of view of Health: we are told that if some precautions are not taken, if we do not eat as we should, if we do not follow certain rules, necessarily there will be consequences.
True. But if you look at the thing in the light of what I have told you that there are no two universal combinations that are alike then how can you establish laws and what is the absolute truth of such laws?
09.16 - Goal of Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
How to Listen Health in the Ashram
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part NineGoal of Evolution
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How to Listen Health in the Ashram
09.17 - Health in the Ashram, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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Health in the Ashram
There are people who come to me and say that they would like to go home, for their Health does not permit them to continue here; it is gradually getting worse and worse and they ask for my permission.
I wonder at their ignorance. Perhaps I should not wonder; human nature is like that. These people do not know or see or feel in the least that they are here in the best of conditions for cure, nowhere else in the world would they get anything like the opportunity or the help that is here. Naturally, if one is to be here and derive the full benefit of his stay, one has to fulfil certain conditions or rather one condition. That one condition is to give up the ego, not to live the life of the ego, but to live the life of the soul, to dedicate oneself to the Divine. So it is evident that if this condition is not fulfilled, that is to say, being here you continue to live the life of your old self, your ego, if you refuse to change, naturally you do not get the benefit of the help that is given here. And when you refuse to go forward, not only do you halt where you are, you go backward. That is the meaning of one's Health getting worse. Of course if you ask my permission to go away, you have it. The Grace is every where for all to the extent they can receive and allow it to come to them. But that is not what things would be if you were here and agreed to attempt to fulfil the conditions of the life here.
To be able to stay here one must have faith. But people's faith depends upon what the ego desires and seeks. "I believe in the Divine provided I find Him doing or arranging things as I would like them to be. If things happen contrary to my notions and wishes, then I believe no more in the Divine." That is their attitude.
09.18 - The Mother on Herself, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Health in the Ashram Cycles of Creation
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part NineThe Mother on Herself
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Health in the Ashram Cycles of Creation
100.00 - Synergy, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
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1.007 - Initial Steps in Yoga Practice, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Discipline, at least from the spiritual point of view, is a voluntary, dedicated attitude adopted by me, you or anyone, which is deliberately undergone like a medical treatment for the purpose of gaining true Health. The initial stage, called the physical posture for the purpose of meditation, is very important, and its importance will be realised if we actually try to sit for a protracted period. How many of you can sit for an hour or two without jerks and shakes and agitations felt in your body? There will be uneasiness in the mind even at the very commencement of this practice. Suppose you are told, "Now sit for two hours and do not get up." The moment I say this you will feel a sense of uneasiness. "Oh, he is asking us not to get up for two hours; it is better to go away now itself. We don't want to sit here." The mind is restless because of being asked to do something to which it has not been accustomed and which it cannot regard as its normal activity. The normalcy which the mind feels is really a kind of chaos; it is not a real normalcy. We are accustomed to chaotic activity. We never stick to time; we never stick to principle; we never stick to any kind of method either in our speaking, or thinking, or acting. We are used to such a kind of life. We get up at any time; we eat at any time; we walk at any time; and, at any time, any work that we do is done in any manner whatsoever, which is the usual habit of the mind that is marked by an absolute absence of punctuality. Now we are telling such a mind that things cannot remain so. There must be a system in every bit of its activity, right from its physical level.
To reiterate, this discipline is not a kind of imposition on the mind or the body, but it is a necessity. If the doctor tells us that we must take a capsule or a tablet at a particular time in a day, in such a quantity, he is not intending to impose upon us any kind of torture definitely not. It is a kind of method that he is introducing into our life for the purpose of regaining Health. An introduction of a method cannot be regarded as a torture. It is not a compulsion and, therefore, discipline in this sense is not only necessary but indispensable, considering the nature of the goal that is before us. Why then this insistence on system, method, organisation, punctuality, tenacity, persistence, etc., in the practice? The reason is that it is the nature of the goal itself. The goal of life is the ultimate point of system.
Nothing can be more systematic than consciousness itself. The highest method that can be conceived is deducible from the structure of consciousness, the nature of existence, the pattern of life everything is methodical. The whole of nature works in such a systematic manner that it is impossible to conceive chaos as a part of natural activity. Chaos means an indeterminate causative factor operating behind the effects visible in life. Any cause can bring about any effect this possibility would be regarded as a chaos. But that is not the way in which nature works. It is not that any cause will bring about any effect. Particular causes, arranged in a particular manner, will bring about particular results at a particular time and in a particular intensity. All this is decided and laid down due to the structure of things, the nature of life itself. The pattern of life is finally an organised whole and, therefore, organisation, which is another name for method, becomes a necessity in the practice of yoga. Just as we have social or political organisations, we have here an organisation of activity, conduct, procedure, and way of life.
1.008 - The Principle of Self-Affirmation, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
The status that one occupies in human society is not the true nature of that person. The status need not necessarily be a social imposition it can be a psychological circumstance also, and it can even be biological. All these keep us in a state of subconscious tension. If very deeply studied, psychoanalytically, we will find that every human being is a patient not psychologically Healthy, at least from a very profound point of view a patient in the sense that there is something external grown as an accretion upon one's true nature which has covered up and smothered one's own freedom of existence. All these various types of fungii that have grown around us in the form of the biological, psychological and social relationships, keep us in a fool's paradise a fool's paradise in the sense that we live in a world which is totally false, and which is not true or compatible with our real nature.
The practice of yoga is very cautious about all these internal structural devices, which have been manufactured by nature to keep the individual under subjugation by brainwashing him from birth until death and never allowing him to think of what these devices are. If we want to subordinate a person and keep that person under subjection always, we have to brainwash that person every day by telling him something contrary to what he is, repeating it every day every moment in every thought, every speech and every action so that there is a false personality grown around that person and he becomes our servant. This has happened to everyone, and this trick seems to be played by the vast diversified nature itself, so that everyone is a servant of nature rather than a master. This is the source of sorrow.
1.00a - DIVISION A - THE INTERNAL FIRES OF THE SHEATHS., #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
In the etheric body, which is an exact replica of its denser counterpart, we have the organ of active or radiatory fire, and, as is well known, the vehicle of prana. Its function is to store up the rays of radiatory light and heat which are secured from the sun, and to transmit them, via the spleen, to all parts of the physical body. Hence in the future it will come to be recognised that the spine and the spleen are of the utmost importance to the physical well-being of man, and that when the spinal column is duly adjusted and aligned, and when the spleen is freed from congestion and in a Healthy condition, there will be little trouble in the dense physical body. When the physical furnace burns brightly and when the fuel of the body (pranic rays) is adequately assimilated, the human frame will function as desired.
The subject of the blending of these two fires, which is complete in a normal and Healthy person, should engross the attention of the modern physician. He will then concern himself with the removal of nerve congestion or material congestion, so as to leave a free channel for the inner warmth. This blending, which is now a natural and usual growth in every human being, was one of the signs of attainment or of initiation in an earlier solar system. Just as initiation and liberation are marked in this solar system by the blending of the fires of the body, of the mind and of the Spirit, so in an earlier cycle attainment was marked by the blending of the latent fires of matter with the radiatory or active fires, and then their union with the fires of mind. In the earlier period the effects in manifestation of the divine Flame were so remote and deeply hidden as to be scarcely recognisable, though dimly there. Its correspondence can be seen in the animal kingdom, in which instinct holds the intuition in latency, [58] and the Spirit dimly overshadows. Yet all is part of a divine whole.
The subject of the radiatory heat of the macrocosmic and microcosmic systems will be dealt with in detail in a later subdivision. Here we will only deal with the latent interior fire of the
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3. That emanation of the planet which we might term Planetary Prana. It is that which is referred to when one speaks of the Health-giving qualities of Mother Nature, and which is back of the cry of the modern physician, when he wisely says "Back to the Earth." It is the fluidic emanation of this prana which acts upon the physical body, though in this case not via the etheric body. It is absorbed [61] through the skin purely and the pores are its line of least resistance.
c. The Man. At the base of the spine lie hid the fires of the human system, or the internal fires of the Microcosm. The centre is located there, and from it the radiations go forth along the three channels, recognisable in the spine.
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3. Pranic emanation. The emanation, via the etheric body, which corresponds in man to solar prana and to planetary prana. This demonstrates principally in the Health aura and has naught to do with magnetic qualities, as generally interpreted when considering a personality, or man as a unit. I make this repetition as it is very necessary that no mental confusion exists between that magnetism which is a spiritual emanation and that which is purely animal.
It might be wise here to point out that this triple manifestation of fire demonstrates in the astral and mental bodies likewise, having to do with the substance of those bodies. We might express this fire in its triple manifestation as the sumtotal of the essential fire, or life activity of the third Logos. It should be carefully borne [62] in mind that the manifestation of the work of the three Logoi is the expression of the mind of some cosmic Entity. In the same way, the seven planetary Entities, the seven Heavenly Men, are seven Logoi (likewise cosmic Beings) Who in Their totality form the Body of the threefold Logos. We have, therefore:
1.00c - DIVISION C - THE ETHERIC BODY AND PRANA, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
First. In the study of the etheric body lies hid (for scientists and those of the medical profession) a fuller comprehension of the laws of matter and the laws of Health. The word Health has become too localised in the past, and its meaning confined to the sanity of the body corporeal, to the co-operative action of the atoms of the physical body of man, and to the full expression of the powers of the physical elemental. In days to come it will be realised that the Health of man is dependent upon the Health of all allied evolutions, and upon the co-operative action and full expression of the matter of the planet and of the planetary elemental who is himself a composite manifestation of the physical elementals of all manifested nature.
Second. In the study of the etheric body and prana lies the revelation of the effects of those rays of the sun which (for lack of better expression), we will call "solar pranic emanations." These solar pranic emanations are the produced effect of the central heat of the sun approaching other bodies within the solar system by one of the three main channels of contact, and producing on the bodies then contacted certain effects differing somewhat from those produced by the other emanations. These effects might be considered as definitely stimulating and constructive, and (through their essential quality) as producing conditions that further the growth of cellular matter, and concern its adjustment to environing conditions; they concern likewise the internal Health (demonstrating as the heat of the atom and its consequent activity) and the uniform evolution of the form of which that particular atom of matter forms a constituent part. Emanative prana does little in connection with [79] form building; that is not its province, but it conserves the form through the preservation of the Health of its component parts. Other rays of the sun act differently, upon the forms and upon their substance. Some perform the work of the Destroyer of forms, and others carry on the work of cohering and of attracting; the work of the Destroyer and of the Preserver is carried on under the Law of Attraction and Repulsion. Some rays definitely produce accelerated motion, others produce retardation. The ones we are dealing with herepranic solar emanationswork within the four ethers, that matter which (though physical) is not as yet objectively visible to the eye of man. They are the basis of all physical plane life considered solely in connection with the life of the physical plane atoms of matter, their inherent heat and their rotary motion. These emanations are the basis of that "fire by friction" which demonstrates in the activity of matter.
Finally, in the study of the etheric body and prana comes comprehension of the method of logoic manifestation, and therefore much of interest to the metaphysician, and all abstract thinkers. The etheric body of man holds hid the secret of his objectivity. It has its correspondence on the archetypal plane,the plane we call that of the divine manifestation, the first plane of our solar system, the plane Adi. The matter of that highest plane is called often the "sea of fire" and it is the root of the akasha, the term applied to the substance of the second plane of manifestation. Let us trace the analogy a little more in detail, for in its just apprehension will be found much of illumination and much that will serve to elucidate problems both macrocosmic and microcosmic. We will begin with man and his etheric body.
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In Man. The organ of reception is the spleen through its etheric counterpart. After distribution over the entire body via the etheric network it demonstrates in surface radiation as the Health aura.
Seventh. Thus in all the three bodies will the resemblance clearly be seen, and the working out in perfect correspondence is easily demonstrable:
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Contri bution of atom to the united Health aura of body.
Movement produced............................
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The process of assimilation is carried on in this triangle, and the prana which enters into either centre, circulates three times around the triangle before being transmitted to all parts of the etheric vehicle and from thence to the dense physical body. The main organ of assimilation is the spleen the etheric centre and the dense physical organ. The vital essence from the sun is passed into the etheric spleen, and is there subjected to a process of intensification or devitalisation, according to the condition, Healthy or not, of that organ. If the man is in a Healthy state the emanation received will be augmented by his own individual vibration, and its rate of vibration will be keyed up before it is passed on into the physical spleen; or it will be slowed down and lowered if the man is in a poor condition of Health.
These three centres are in the form that all centres take, of saucer-like depressions, resembling somewhat the appearance of small whirlpools, and which draw within their sphere of influence the currents that come their way.
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a. Microcosmic functional disorders. These have to do with the reception by man, via the necessary centres, of the pranic fluids. We must always bear in mind, and thus keep the distinction clear, that these emanations of prana have to do with the heat latent in matter; when received and functioning through the etheric body correctly, they co-operate with the natural latent bodily [106] warmth, and (merging therewith) hold the body in a vitalised condition, imposing upon the matter of the body a certain rate of vibratory action that leads to the necessary activity of the physical vehicle, and the right functioning of its organs. It will, therefore, be apparent that the A. B. C. of bodily Health is wrapped up in the right reception of prana, and that one of the basic changes that must be made in the life of the human animal (which is the aspect we are dealing with now) will be in the ordinary conditions of living.
The three fundamental centres whereby reception is brought about must be allowed to function with greater freedom, and with less restriction. Now, owing to centuries of wrong living, and to basic mistakes (originating in Lemurian days) man's three pranic centres are not in good working order. The centre between the shoulder blades is in the best receptive condition, though owing to the poor condition of the spinal column (which in so many is out of accurate alignment), its position in the back is apt to be misplaced. The splenic centre near the diaphragm is sub-normal in size and its vibration is not correct. In the case of the aboriginal dwellers in such localities as the South Seas, better etheric conditions will be found; the life they lead is more normal (from the animal standpoint) than in any other portion of the world.
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In touching upon similar conditions in the planet, both these types of trouble will be found. More cannot be said, but in the wise study of solar radiation upon the surface of the planet in connection with its rotary action, some of the group rules of Health may be comprehended and followed. The spirit of the planet (or the planetary entity) likewise has his cycles, and in the absorption of [108] planetary prana, and in its correct distribution, lies the secret of fertility and equable vegetation. Much of this is hidden in the fabled story of the war between fire and water, which has its basis in the reaction of the fire latent in matter, to the fire emanating outside of matter, and playing upon it. In the interval that has to elapse while the two are in process of blending, come those periods where, through karmic inheritance, reception is unstable and distribution inequable. As the point of race equilibrium is reached, so planetary equilibrium will likewise be attained, and in planetary attainment will come the equilibrium that must mutually take place between the solar planets. When they attain a mutual balance and interaction then the system is stabilised and perfection reached. The even distribution of prana will parallel this balancing in the man, in the race, in the planet and in the system. This is but another way of saying that uniform vibration will be achieved.
b. Microcosmic organic disorders. These are basically two in number:
1.00d - DIVISION D - KUNDALINI AND THE SPINE, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
The merging of the fires of matter is the result of evolutionary growth, when left to the normal, slow development that time alone can bring. The junction of the two fires of matter is effected early in the history of man, and is the cause of the rude Health that the clean-living, high-thinking man should normally enjoy. When the fires of matter have passed (united) still further along the etheric spinal channel they contact the fire of manas as it radiates from the throat centre. Clarity of thought is here essential, and it will be necessary to elucidate somewhat this rather abstruse subject.
1. The three major head centres (from the physical standpoint) are the:
1.00 - INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
Human radiatory, or active fire, is a factor as yet but little comprehended; it relates to the Health aura and to that radiation from the etheric which makes a man a healer, and able to transmit active heat.
It is necessary to differentiate between this radiation from the etheric, which is a radiation of prana, and magnetism, which is an emanation from a subtler body (usually the astral), and has to do with the manifestation of [54] the Divine Flame within the material sheaths. The Divine Flame is formed on the second plane, the monadic, and magnetism (which is a method of demonstrating radiatory fire) is therefore felt paramountly on the fourth and sixth planes, or through the buddhic and astral vehicles. These are, as we know, closely allied to the second plane. This distinction is of importance and should be carefully recognised.
1.00 - PREFACE - DESCENSUS AD INFERNOS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
territory, and is indicative of participation in the process that ensures continued Healthy individual and
societal adaptation.
1.010 - Self-Control - The Alpha and Omega of Yoga, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Self-control is not a pain; it is not a suffering, as people may imagine. The moment we talk of self-control, people get frightened. They think it is a kind of tapasya that is being imposed upon us contrary to the joys that we are expecting in life. Not so is the truth. The joy of self-control is greater than the joy of sense contact - very important to remember. The joy of sense-control is greater than the joy of sense contact with objects. One may ask why. The reason is that in sense contact an artificial condition is created, whereas in sense-control a real condition which is commensurate with our true nature is generated. In sense contact a condition is generated which is not commensurate with our true nature. We become sick in sense contact, and a kind of illness takes possession of us. And the distorted joy (distorted is the word to be underlined), the perverted joy reflected, limited, and distorted joy which we are supposed to acquire by every kind of sense contact, is far, far removed from the true joy of which it is the reflection, distortion, etc a state of affairs which can be known only by direct practice. There is a vast difference, as between Health and disease. How unhappy one is when one is sick, and how happy one feels when one is Healthy. But if we are perpetually sick and we do not know the joy of Health, it is difficult to make it clear to us. What Health is cannot be explained, because we have not seen what Health is.
Sense-control, or self-control, is causative of a greater happiness than anything conceivable in this world, because it is a return of consciousness to its own self that is motivated by this effort. The more we return to ourselves, the more are we happy. The more we are away from ourselves, the less we are happy and the more we are miserable. So, in all externalised perceptions and contacts, likes and dislikes, etc., we are in a diseased state of mind and consciousness. We are not what we are. We are other than what we are: asvastha-not in our own self. We are outside ourselves when we perceive anything. Svastha is one who is Healthy-one who is situated, located and rooted in one's own self. One who is established in one's own self is svastha, and that condition is called svastha- Health. When we are outside ourselves, we are asvatha.
Self-control is yoga, and that is the return of consciousness to its own cause, which is nothing but its own higher nature. This cause that we are searching for is not another thing outside consciousness. It is a higher expansive condition of its own being, so that we rise from our self to our self in a more expanded form. When we rise to the cause from the effect, we do not grow from one thing to another thing, or rise from one state to another state as if they are two different states. We grow from a lower condition of inadequacy to a higher state of greater adequacy, greater comprehensiveness and reality. It is like rising from lesser and lesser abilities of cognition and knowledge to higher and higher abilities. It is like waking up from deep sleep to the dream state, and from dreaming to waking. We are not rising from one world to another world, but from one condition of consciousness to another condition of consciousness. So it is, after all, a treatment of one's own self by one's own self. Here, another person, another thing or any external instrument is of no use, and so great caution and persistence in practice is necessary.
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It is dangerous to miss practice even for one day. Why is it so? It is dangerous because the senses will revolt, and once they revolt we cannot control them. They will gain the upper hand and we will be finished, and all the good that we have done for months and years will be in dust. We are warned that carelessness is equal to death. It is better to die than be careless in this practice. It is like touching dynamite. One has to be cautious. So why is self-control necessary? It is necessary because that is the return of the mind and consciousness to its own Healthy condition of higher expansiveness. It is also necessary that we should not miss the practice. If we miss it for a period in the middle, the controlled senses gain the opportunity to revolt and exert a pressure with such vehemence that our whole personality will be driven by a blast of wind in a direction which is contrary to what is expected.
So while self-control is extremely difficult, to miss the practice of self-control is extremely dangerous. Hence, the guidance of a Guru is called for, and earnestness of practice is also requisite. Conducive atmosphere, suitable company, activity commensurate with the nature of the goal, and the presence of a competent master or a Guru all these are indispensable requisites in the practice of yoga.
1.012 - Joseph, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
85. They said, “By God, you will not stop remembering Joseph, until you have ruined your Health, or you have passed away.”
86. He said, “I only complain of my grief and sorrow to God, and I know from God what you do not know.”
1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left. But alert and Healthy natures remember that the sun rose clear. It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a-going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe with the speed of birds, in a way to kill old people, as the phrase is. Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned any thing of absolute value by living. Practically, the old have no very important advice to give the young, their own experience has been so partial, and their lives have been such miserable failures, for private reasons, as they must believe; and it may be that they have some faith left which belies that experience, and they are only less young than they were. I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me any thing to the purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it. If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my
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$25.21 on the one side,this being very nearly the means with which I started, and the measure of expenses to be incurred, and on the other, beside the leisure and independence and Health thus secured, a comfortable house for me as long as I choose to occupy it.
These statistics, however accidental and therefore uninstructive they may appear, as they have a certain completeness, have a certain value also. Nothing was given me of which I have not rendered some account.
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I learned from my two years experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain ones necessary food, even in this latitude; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain Health and strength. I have made a satisfactory dinner, satisfactory on several accounts, simply off a dish of purslane (_Portulaca oleracea_) which I gathered in my cornfield, boiled and salted. I give the Latin on account of the savoriness of the trivial name. And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet-corn boiled, with the addition of salt? Even the little variety which I used was a yielding to the demands of appetite, and not of Health. Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries; and I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.
The reader will perceive that I am treating the subject rather from an economic than a dietetic point of view, and he will not venture to put my abstemiousness to the test unless he has a well-stocked larder.
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I would not subtract any thing from the praise that is due to philanthropy, but merely demand justice for all who by their lives and works are a blessing to mankind. I do not value chiefly a mans uprightness and benevolence, which are, as it were, his stem and leaves. Those plants of whose greenness withered we make herb tea for the sick, serve but a humble use, and are most employed by quacks. I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse. His goodness must not be a partial and transitory act, but a constant superfluity, which costs him nothing and of which he is unconscious. This is a charity that hides a multitude of sins. The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast-off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our Health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion. From what southern plains comes up the voice of wailing? Under what latitudes reside the hea then to whom we would send light? Who is that intemperate and brutal man whom we would redeem? If any thing ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,for that is the seat of sympathy,he forthwith sets about reforming the world.
Being a microcosm himself, he discovers, and it is a true discovery, and he is the man to make it,that the world has been eating green apples; to his eyes, in fact, the globe itself is a great green apple, which there is danger awful to think of that the children of men will nibble before it is ripe; and straightway his drastic philanthropy seeks out the Esquimaux and the Patagonian, and embraces the populous
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Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring him forever. One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man. There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God. All Health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad and does me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it. If, then, we would indeed restore mankind by truly Indian, botanic, magnetic, or natural means, let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our own brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.
I read in the Gulistan, or Flower Garden, of Sheik Sadi of Shiraz, that
1.01 - Hatha Yoga, #Amrita Gita, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism
12. Attain good Health through the practice of Yoga Asanas and Pranayama. Without good Health, how can you earn, how can you succeed in any undertaking, how can you sit for meditation?
13. Practise Yoga Asanas and Pranayama on an empty stomach in the early morning.
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19. Spend half an hour daily in the practice of Asanas and Pranayama. This will give you Health, vim, vigour and vitality. This will remove all diseases.
20. Dhauti (cleansing of stomach with a piece of cloth), Basti (drawing up of water through anus), Neti (cleansing of nostrils with the help of a thread), Nauli (manipulation of the abdominal muscles), Trataka (gazing on an object), Kapalabhati (a kind of Pranayama)are the Shad Kriyas of Hatha Yoga.
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22. Sarvanga, Hala and Ardhamatsyendra Asanas make the spine elastic. Sarvanga develops thyroid gland and bestows good Health. It helps Brahmacharya and gives longevity.
23. Paschimottanasana reduces fat and helps digestion. So does Mayurasana.
1.01 - How is Knowledge Of The Higher Worlds Attained?, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
with cognition. This is due to the fact that we are inclined to set cognition aside as a faculty by itself-one that stands in no relation to what otherwise occurs in the soul. In so thinking we do not bear in mind that it is the soul which exercises the faculty of cognition; and feelings are for the soul what food is for the body. If we give the body stones in place of bread, its activity will cease. It is the same with the soul. Veneration, homage, devotion are like nutriment making it Healthy and strong, especially strong for the activity of cognition. Disrespect, antipathy, underestimation of what deserves recognition, all exert a paralyzing and withering effect on this faculty of cognition. For the spiritually experienced this fact is visible in the aura. A soul which harbors feelings of reverence and devotion produces a change in its aura. Certain spiritual colorings, as they may be called, yellow-red and brown-red in tone, vanish and are replaced by blue-red tints. Thereby the cognitional faculty is ripened; it receives intelligence of facts in its environment of which it had hitherto no idea. Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic
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1.01 - Necessity for knowledge of the whole human being for a genuine education., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Zen
As far as this life period is concerned, if a civilization never spoke of education and in its elementary, primitive way simply educated, it would have a much Healthier outlook than ours. This was true of the ancient Eastern regions, which had no educa- tion in our sense of the word. There the adults body, soul, and spirit was allowed to affect the child so that the child could take this adult as a guide, moving a muscle when the teacher moved a muscle and blinking when the teacher blinked. The teacher was trained to do this in a way that enabled the child to imitate. Such a teacher was not as the Western pedagogue, but the Eastern data. 3 A certain instinctive quality was behind this. Even today, its obvious that what Ive learned is totally irrelevant in terms of my ability to teach a child effectively before the change of teeth. After the change of teeth, the teachers knowledge begins to have some significance; but this is lost again, if I merely impart what I learned as it lives in me. It all has to be transformed artistically and made into images, as we shall see later. I have to awaken invis- ible forces between the child and myself.
3. In Sanskrit, the giver.
1.01 - NIGHT, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
To Health in thy dewy fountains ba the me!
Ah, me! this dungeon still I see.
1.01 - On knowledge of the soul, and how knowledge of the soul is the key to the knowledge of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
Know also, that if the heart should not be tarnished with the rust of rebellion, and if the animal and ferocious qualities should not be dominant, that it would be capable, on account of the presence in it of angelic properties, of manifesting this same influence over other bodies. If it should look upon a lion or tiger with severity, they would become weak and submissive. If it should look with kindness upon one who is sick, his infirmity might be changed to Health. If it should look upon the vigorous with majesty, they might become infirm. The realty of the existence of these influences is known both by reason and experience. Sorcery with the eyes, is of this kind of power. If for example, a man of a malicious disposition look upon some little thing with envy, and if while he is looking, the destruction of the object should come into his mind, an influence upon it may be observed immediately, and directly or after a while that object will be destroyed: the prophet of God has said: "the eye brings man to the grave and the camel to the seething pot."
In whomsoever these influences are shown to have power, if he occasions misery in the exercise of this power, he is [29] designated a sorcerer. Although as has been seen, the power of performing signs, miracles and sorceries belongs to the heart when its faculties are in perfect operation, yet there are important destinations between these powers. And whoever is of a narrow mind will not be able to appreciate that signs and miracles are influences proceeding from the heart of man, unless he should learn it by external teaching.
1.01 - On renunciation of the world, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of allfaithful and unfaithful, just and unjust, pious and impious, passionate and dispassionate, monks and seculars, wise and simple, Healthy and sick, young and oldjust as the diffusion of light, the sight of the sun, and the changes of the weather are for all alike; for there is no respect of persons with God.3
The irreligious man is a mortal being with a rational nature, who of his own free will turns his back on life and thinks of his own Maker, the ever-existent, as non-existent. The lawless man is one who holds the law of God after his own depraved fashion,4 and thinks to combine faith in God with heresy that is directly opposed to Him. The Christian is one who imitates Christ in thought, word and deed, as far as is possible for human beings, believing rightly and blamelessly in the Holy Trinity. The lover of God is he who lives in communion with all that is natural and sinless, and as far as he is able neglects nothing good. The continent man is he who in the midst of temptations, snares and turmoil, strives with all his might to imitate the ways of Him who is free from such. The monk is he who within his earthly and soiled body toils towards the rank and state of the incorporeal beings.5 A monk is he who strictly controls his nature and unceasingly watches over his senses. A monk is he who keeps his body
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Let no one, by appealing to the weight and multitude of his sins, say that he is unworthy of the monastic vow, and for love of pleasure disparage himself, excusing himself with excuses in his sins.1 Where there is much corruption, considerable treatment is needed to draw out all the impurity. The Healthy do not go to a hospital.
20. If an earthly king were to call us and request us to serve in his presence, we should not delay for other orders, we should not make excuses, but we should leave everything and eagerly go to him. Let us then be on the alert, lest when the King of kings and Lord of lords and God of gods calls us to this heavenly office, we cry off out of sloth and cowardice and find ourselves without excuse at the Last Judgment. It is possible to walk, even when tied with the fetters of worldly affairs and iron cares, but only with difficulty. For even those who have iron chains on their feet can often walk; but they are continually stumbling and getting hurt. An unmarried man, who is only tied to the world by business affairs, is like one who has fetters on his hands; and therefore when he wishes to enter the monastic life he has nothing to hinder him. But the married man is like one who is bound hand and foot. (So when he wants to run he cannot.)2
1.01 - Principles of Practical Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
into a Healthy one, cure is change. Wherever this is possible, where it does
not demand too great a sacrifice of personality, we should change the sick
1.01 - Tara the Divine, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
and her practice performed when one's Health is
threatened. Also, a thangka or a statue of White Tara
1.01 - The First Steps, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
The result of this branch of Yoga is to make men live long; Health is the chief idea, the one goal of the Hatha-Yogi. He is determined not to fall sick, and he never does. He lives long; a hundred years is nothing to him; he is quite young and fresh when he is 150, without one hair turned grey. But that is all. A banyan tree lives sometimes 5000 years, but it is a banyan tree and nothing more. So, if a man lives long, he is only a Healthy animal. One or two ordinary lessons of the Hatha-Yogis are very useful. For instance, some of you will find it a good thing for headaches to drink cold water through the nose as soon as you get up in the morning; the whole day your brain will be nice and cool, and you will never catch cold. It is very easy to do; put your nose into the water, draw it up through the nostrils and make a pump action in the throat.
After one has learned to have a firm erect seat, one has to perform, according to certain schools, a practice called the purifying of the nerves. This part has been rejected by some as not belonging to Raja-Yoga, but as so great an authority as the commentator Shankarchrya advises it, I think fit that it should be mentioned, and I will quote his own directions from his commentary on the Shvetshvatara Upanishad: "The mind whose dross has been cleared away by Pranayama, becomes fixed in Brahman; therefore Pranayama is declared. First the nerves are to be purified, then comes the power to practice Pranayama. Stopping the right nostril with the thumb, through the left nostril fill in air, according to capacity; then, without any interval, throw the air out through the right nostril, closing the left one. Again inhaling through the right nostril eject through the left, according to capacity; practicing this three or five times at four hours of the day, before dawn, during midday, in the evening, and at midnight, in fifteen days or a month purity of the nerves is attained; then begins Pranayama."
Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice. We never understand these things until we experience them. We will have to see and feel them for ourselves. Simply listening to explanations and theories will not do. There are several obstructions to practice. The first obstruction is an un Healthy body: if the body is not in a fit state, the practice will be obstructed. Therefore we have to keep the body in good Health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do. Always use a mental effort, what is usually called "Christian Science," to keep the body strong. That is all nothing further of the body. We must not forget that Health is only a means to an end. If Health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become un Healthy.
The second obstruction is doubt; we always feel doubtful about things we do not see. Man cannot live upon words, however he may try. So, doubt comes to us as to whether there is any truth in these things or not; even the best of us will doubt sometimes: With practice, within a few days, a little glimpse will come, enough to give one encouragement and hope. As a certain commentator on Yoga philosophy says, "When one proof is obtained, however little that may be, it will give us faith in the whole teaching of Yoga." For instance, after the first few months of practice, you will begin to find you can read another's thoughts; they will come to you in picture form. Perhaps you will hear something happening at a long distance, when you concentrate your mind with a wish to hear. These glimpses will come, by little bits at first, but enough to give you faith, and strength, and hope. For instance, if you concentrate your thoughts on the tip of your nose, in a few days you will begin to smell most beautiful fragrance, which will be enough to show you that there are certain mental perceptions that can be made obvious without the contact of physical objects. But we must always remember that these are only the means; the aim, the end, the goal, of all this training is liberation of the soul. Absolute control of nature, and nothing short of it, must be the goal. We must be the masters, and not the slaves of nature; neither body nor mind must be our master, nor must we forget that the body is mine, and not I the body's.
A god and a demon went to learn about the Self from a great sage. They studied with him for a long time. At last the sage told them, "You yourselves are the Being you are seeking." Both of them thought that their bodies were the Self. They went back to their people quite satisfied and said, "We have learned everything that was to be learned; eat, drink, and be merry; we are the Self; there is nothing beyond us." The nature of the demon was ignorant, clouded; so he never inquired any further, but was perfectly contented with the idea that he was God, that by the Self was meant the body. The god had a purer nature. He at first committed the mistake of thinking: I, this body, am Brahman: so keep it strong and in Health, and well dressed, and give it all sorts of enjoyments. But, in a few days, he found out that that could not be the meaning of the sage, their master; there must be something higher. So he came back and said, "Sir, did you teach me that this body was the Self? If so, I see all bodies die; the Self cannot die." The sage said, "Find it out; thou art That." Then the god thought that the vital forces which work the body were what the sage meant. But after a time, he found that if he ate, these vital forces remained strong, but, if he starved, they became weak. The god then went back to the sage and said, "Sir, do you mean that the vital forces are the Self?" The sage said, "Find out for yourself; thou art That." The god returned home once more, thinking that it was the mind, perhaps, that was the Self. But in a short while he saw that thoughts were so various, now good, again bad; the mind was too changeable to be the Self. He went back to the sage and said, "Sir, I do not think that the mind is the Self; did you mean that?" "No," replied the sage, "thou art That; find out for yourself." The god went home, and at last found that he was the Self, beyond all thought, one without birth or death, whom the sword cannot pierce or the fire burn, whom the air cannot dry or the water melt, the beginningless and endless, the immovable, the intangible, the omniscient, the omnipotent Being; that It was neither the body nor the mind, but beyond them all. So he was satisfied; but the poor demon did not get the truth, owing to his fondness for the body.
This world has a good many of these demoniac natures, but there are some gods too. If one proposes to teach any science to increase the power of sense-enjoyment, one finds multitudes ready for it. If one undertakes to show the supreme goal, one finds few to listen to him. Very few have the power to grasp the higher, fewer still the patience to attain to it. But there are a few also who know that even if the body can be made to live for a thousand years, the result in the end will be the same. When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall. No man was ever born who could stop his body one moment from changing. Body is the name of a series of changes. "As in a river the masses of water are changing before you every moment, and new masses are coming, yet taking similar form, so is it with this body." Yet the body must be kept strong and Healthy. It is the best instrument we have.
This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is higher than all animals, than all angels; none is greater than man. Even the Devas (gods) will have to come down again and attain to salvation through a human body. Man alone attains to perfection, not even the Devas. According to the Jews and Mohammedans, God created man after creating the angels and everything else, and after creating man He asked the angels to come and salute him, and all did so except Iblis; so God cursed him and he became Satan. Behind this allegory is the great truth that this human birth is the greatest birth we can have. The lower creation, the animal, is dull, and manufactured mostly out of Tamas. Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the angels, or Devas, attain to direct freedom without human birth. In human society, in the same way, too much wealth or too much poverty is a great impediment to the higher development of the soul. It is from the middle classes that the great ones of the world come. Here the forces are very equally adjusted and balanced.
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Those of you who can afford it will do better to have a room for this practice alone. Do not sleep in that room, it must be kept holy. You must not enter the room until you have bathed, and are perfectly clean in body and mind. Place flowers in that room always; they are the best surroundings for a Yogi; also pictures that are pleasing. Burn incense morning and evening. Have no quarrelling, nor anger, nor unholy thought in that room. Only allow those persons to enter it who are of the same thought as you. Then gradually there will be an atmosphere of holiness in the room, so that when you are miserable, sorrowful, doubtful, or your mind is disturbed, the very fact of entering that room will make you calm. This was the idea of the temple and the church, and in some temples and churches you will find it even now, but in the majority of them the very idea has been lost. The idea is that by keeping holy vibrations there the place becomes and remains illumined. Those who cannot afford to have a room set apart can practice anywhere they like. Sit in a straight posture, and the first thing to do is to send a current of holy thought to all creation. Mentally repeat, "Let all beings be happy; let all beings be peaceful; let all beings be blissful." So do to the east, south, north and west. The more you do that the better you will feel yourself. You will find at last that the easiest way to make ourselves Healthy is to see that others are Healthy, and the easiest way to make ourselves happy is to see that others are happy. After doing that, those who believe in God should pray not for money, not for Health, nor for heaven; pray for knowledge and light; every other prayer is selfish. Then the next thing to do is to think of your own body, and see that it is strong and Healthy; it is the best instrument you have. Think of it as being as strong as adamant, and that with the help of this body you will cross the ocean of life. Freedom is never to be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.
1.01 - The Ideal of the Karmayogin, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
We do not believe that by multiplying new sects limited within the narrower and inferior ideas of religion imported from the West or by creating organisations for the perpetuation of the mere dress and body of Hinduism we can recover our spiritual Health, energy and greatness. The world moves through an indispensable interregnum of free thought and materialism to a new synthesis of religious thought and experience, a new religious world-life free from intolerance, yet full of faith and fervour, accepting all forms of religion because it has an unshakable faith in the One. The religion which embraces Science and faith,
Theism, Christianity, Mahomedanism and Buddhism and yet is none of these, is that to which the World-Spirit moves. In our own, which is the most sceptical and the most believing of all, the most sceptical because it has questioned and experimented the most, the most believing because it has the deepest experience and the most varied and positive spiritual knowledge, - that wider Hinduism which is not a dogma or combination of dogmas but a law of life, which is not a social framework but the spirit of a past and future social evolution, which rejects nothing but insists on testing and experiencing everything and when tested and experienced turning it to the soul's uses, in this
1.01 - The Unexpected, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
One minor trouble that worried us was the early appearance of bedsores. They took some time to heal and it needed rubber cushions to protect the back from further damage. Sri Aurobindo enquired daily about the condition. From then on, he started taking an active interest in his Health in every detail.
It will be seen from the above account that a personal relation had now grown between the Guru and the disciples; the sense of awe and distance had vanished. In this respect, Dr. Manilal must be considered our vanguard. His age, profession, charming childlike nature melted the apparently frosty reserve of the Master. The Divine has a soft corner for the healers of the body. The much abused human representative of the Divine Healer has still a place in the economy of things! Nevertheless, even in his personal relations, Sri Aurobindo never lost his impersonality.
1.01 - To Watanabe Sukefusa, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
Until now, your mother could not devote herself to good works because from the time you were born she lavished her every moment on you, caring for you and seeing that you were provided with everything necessary for your upbringing. If she did find time to enter the family altar room, the sutras and dharanis she recited were always dedicated to your good Health and long life, without a thought for her own karmic future, and heedless of her own physical exhaustion. Now, having retired in recent years from her former busy life, she has time to spend quietly on Buddhist devotions-but you come around, hatching your malicious schemes to frustrate and upset her, spreading silly rumors at the yearend cleaning, thinking up ways to anger her at the busy year-end season. What a bitterly cruel thing to do.
How heartwarming it is to see ordinary sons and daughters attending to their duty to their parents with benevolent smiles on their faces, sparing no expense to provide for their needs and amusement:
1.020 - The World and Our World, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
The author of the Panchadasi tells us that if an abolition of objects were a condition to liberation, then liberation would not be possible, because nobody can abolish the existence of objects. Or, if merely a non-perception of the objects of the world is to be regarded as liberation, then sleep would be a condition of liberation because we do not perceive anything during sleep. The actual event that is taking place outside may also not be the cause of joy or sorrow, says the author of the Panchadasi, who gives the following analogy. Suppose there is someone in a foreign land whose mother is here, far away from the person, and his mother receives false news that her son is dead. One can imagine the condition of the mother. Though the son is alive, Healthy and hale, and everything is all right, false news can create a real heartbreak for the mother. On the other hand, if the man has been dead for ten years but his mother has not received any news, she is happy.
So, the birth or death, the life or the extinction of a person, is not the real cause of the joy or sorrow of a person. It is the reaction that the mind sets up in respect of a particular event as it is conveyed to it subjectively which is considered as being the cause of its joy and sorrow. This is another interpretation. With all our thinking, we cannot come to a definite conclusion about the nature of things. We cannot say whether our mind is largely responsible for our joys and sorrows, or whether objects also have some say in this matter. The difficulty arises on account of a relativity of action and reaction between subject and object, and no one has answered this question properly. Similar to this is the question of the perception of beauty in things. No one can say, even today, whether the beauty is present in the object outside, or present in the mind inside. Somehow we reconcile ourselves by saying that both factors coincide, and there is some truth in this side and some truth in that side.
1.024 - Affiliation With Larger Wholes, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Essentially, the Upanishad tells us that all of the happiness of mankind put together is but a jot only a drop. Let us imagine the state of happiness of a Healthy, young individual who is the king of the whole world. We know that there is no such person as a king of the whole world, yet let us imagine such a person who is the emperor of the whole world. No one is in opposition to this emperor. He is vibrantly Healthy and youthful, and has all the powers of enjoyment. Everything in the world is under him. What is his happiness? The happiness of this emperor of the entire world can be regarded as the lowest jot of happiness.
One hundred times the happiness of the emperor of this world is the happiness of the pitris, another level which is superior to the physical world. One hundred times the happiness of the pitris is the happiness of the gandharvas, who are celestial musicians in a world which is still higher than that of the pitris. One hundred times the happiness of the gandharvas is the happiness of the celestials in heaven the devas, as we call them. One hundred times the happiness of these celestials is the happiness of Indra, the king of the gods. One hundred times the happiness of the king of the gods is the happiness of the preceptor, the Guru of the gods Brihaspati. One hundred times the happiness of Brihaspati is the happiness of Prajapati, the Creator Brahma. One hundred times the happiness of Brahma the Creator is the happiness of Virat, the Supreme. Beyond that is Hiranyagarbha, and beyond that, Ishvara, and beyond Ishvara is the Absolute.
1.02 - BEFORE THE CITY-GATE, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
With thanks and Health to all and each.
(The People gather in a circle about him.)
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But you in Health came out again.
FAUST
1.02 - Education, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We propose to study these five aspects of education one by one and also their interrelationships. But before we enter into the details of the subject, I wish to make a recommendation to parents. Most parents, for various reasons, give very little thought to the true education which should be imparted to children. When they have brought a child into the world, provided him with food, satisfied his various material needs and looked after his Health more or less carefully, they think they have fully discharged their duty. Later on, they will send him to school and hand over to the teachers the responsibility for his education.
There are other parents who know that their children must be educated and who try to do what they can. But very few, even among those who are most serious and sincere, know that the first thing to do, in order to be able to educate a child, is to educate oneself, to become conscious and master of oneself so that one never sets a bad example to ones child. For it is above all through example that education becomes effective. To speak good words and to give wise advice to a child has very little effect if one does not oneself give him an example of what one teaches. Sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self-control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches. Parents, have a high ideal and always act in accordance with it and you will see that little by little your child will reflect this ideal in himself and spontaneously manifest the qualities you would like to see expressed in his nature. Quite naturally a child has respect and admiration for his parents; unless they are quite unworthy, they will always appear to their child as demigods whom he will try to imitate as best he can.
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
wealthy (or at least free from want), possessed of good Health, wise and well-loved. The greatest good the
unknown might confer, then, might be regarded as that which would allow us to transcend our innate
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dreams come true; that is Healthy adaptation. But we still compare what is happening to what we want
to what we desire to be not merely to what we cold-bloodedly expect.)
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voice in those decisions a vote. Every part of us, kingdom that we are, depends on the Healthy operation
of every other part. To ignore one good, therefore, is to risk all. To ignore the demands of one necessary
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(1) I want to help people; (2) I need some monetary security; (3) I would like to stay in the Health
profession; (4) perhaps status is not as important as I thought (and might therefore be sacrificed, to
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I loved her more than Health and beauty,
and I chose to have her rather than light,
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makes the whole Healthy man
Why walk the mile?
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expectation) manifested and internally represented. This process may be guided to a Healthy outcome
through mutual participation in community-sponsored religious ritual. Alternatively, individuals may
1.02 - On the Knowledge of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
When the Health of a person undergoes a change, and he becomes the prey of melancholy and suspicion, and the pleasures of the world become distasteful, so that from disgust with it, he withdraws from all society, his physician says, "this person is diseased with melancholy; he must take an infusion of dodder, of thyme and bark of endive as a medicine." The naturalist says: "As this person's malady is of a dry nature, it arises from a predominance of dryness, which has settled on the brain. The occasion of his having a dry temperament is the season of winter. Until spring comes, and dry weather predominates, there is no possibility of a cure." The astrologer says, "this person being under the influence of melancholy, which arises from a hurtful conjunction between Mars and Jupiter, there will be no favorable change in his Health until the conjunction of Jupiter with Venus shall have reached the Trine." Now know, beloved, that the language of all these persons is correct, for they all speak and believe according to the degree and reach of their reason and understanding. However, the real and essential cause of the malady may be stated thus. When fortune is favorable to any person, and the Deity desires to guide him into the [53] possession of it, he deputes two powerful ministers to that effect, Jupiter and Mars. These in turn, control the light footed ministers, the elements, and command dryness, for example, to fasten its bridle to the neck of the person, and cause dryness to attack his head and brain. He is thus made to become weary of the world by means of the scourge of melancholy and suspicion, and so with the bridle of the will may be impelled towards the Deity. These circumstances can never be understood in this sense, either by medicine, or by nature, or by the stars. One may, however, learn to understand them by knowledge and the prophetic power combined. For they embrace the whole kingdom of the universe with its deputies and servants, and possess the knowledge of the end for which everything was created: they know to whose command all things are subjected, to what men are invited and what they are forbidden to do.
The Lord invites the servants whom he loves to the contemplation of his glory, at one time by sending misfortune and affliction, and at another by melancholy and sickness: and he says to them, "my servants, what you regard as misfortune and affliction, is but the bridle of my love, by which I draw those whom I love to a spirit of holy submission, and to my Paradise." It is also found in a tradition that "misfortune is first of all the lot of the prophets, then of the saints and then of those who are like them in successive lower degrees. Look not then upon these things as maladies, for they are my favored servants."
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The third class of errorists are those who indeed believe in God and a future life, but whose faith is weak, because they do not understand the requirements of the law. They say that "God is able to do without our worship. There is neither any profit to God from our worship, or any injury done him by our disobedience. If we worship God, we shall learn what good it did in the future world; and if we do not worship him, there will neither be any advantage or harm. God himself so declares in his holy word, "Whosoever keep himself pure, does it for his own advantage," 1 and in another place, "He who does well, does it for his own profit." 2 Although it is better to worship God, yet as God has no need of our worship, therefore if we do not worship him, what harm is there in it ?" These ignorant people resemble the sick man, who when the physician says to him, "you should be abstinent, if you wish to be [59] cured of your malady," should answer, "what advantage is it to you whether I am abstinent or not"? Now though the sick man is right when he says that there is no advantage to the physician from his abstinence, yet if he is not abstinent, he will perish. This class regards obedience and transgression as of the same degree in value. But in the same manner as disease may occasion a man's destruction, so transgression defiles the heart, and will cause it to appear in the future world in a state of woe. And just as abstinence and medicine restore the body to Health, so to avoid acts of transgression and sin and to be obedient to God, are means of securing salvation.
The fourth class of men who indulge in error, are those who indeed receive the law, but in some peculiar and erroneous sense. They wrongly say, "The law commands U5 to keep our hearts pure from pride, envy, hatred, anger and dissimulation. But this is a thing which it is impossible to do. For the soul has been created with these qualities and affections, and human nature cannot be changed. It is just as impossible to make a black material white by scraping it, as for the human heart to be free from these qualities." These ignorant men do not know and understand, that the law does not command that these qualities should be entirely effaced and expelled from the heart, but rather requires that they should be brought under subjection to the heart and the reason, to the end that they may not act presumptuously, go beyond the limits set by the law, and indulge in mortal sins. It is possible even to change these qualities, by doing only what reason requires, and by respecting the restrictions of the law. Many devout men in past times have secured this change of the affections of the soul. These qua.ities once existed in the prophet of God, but they were corrected, as we learn from the tradition: "I am a man like you. I become angry, as a man becomes angry." And God speaks in his holy word of [60] "those who control their wrath, and who pardon the men who offend them."1 Notice, that in his eternal word, God praises those who dissipate their anger and irritation : he does not praise those who had no anger or rage, since man cannot be without them.
1.02 - Prana, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Again, we know that motion which has become latent can be brought back to manifestation. By hard work and practice certain motions of the body which are most dormant can be brought back under perfect control. Reasoning thus we find there is no impossibility, but, on the other hand. every probability that each part of the body can be brought under perfect control. This the Yogi does through Pranayama. Perhaps some of you have read that in Pranayama, when drawing in the breath, you must fill your whole body with Prana. In the English translations Prana is given as breath, and you are inclined to ask how that is to be done. The fault is with the translator. Every part of the body can be filled with Prana, this vital force, and when you are able to do that, you can control the whole body. All the sickness and misery felt in the body will be perfectly controlled; not only so, you will be able to control another's body. Everything is infectious in this world, good or bad. If your body be in a certain state of tension, it will have a tendency to produce the same tension in others. If you are strong and Healthy, those that live near you will also have the tendency to become strong and Healthy, but if you are sick and weak, those around you will have the tendency to become the same. In the case of one man trying to heal another, the first idea is simply transferring his own Health to the other. This is the primitive sort of healing. Consciously or unconsciously, Health can be transmitted. A very strong man, living with a weak man, will make him a little stronger, whether he knows it or not. When consciously done, it becomes quicker and better in its action. Next come those cases in which a man may not be very Healthy himself, yet we know that he can bring Health to another. The first man, in such a case, has a little more control over the Prana, and can rouse, for the time being, his Prana, as it were, to a certain state of vibration, and transmit it to another person.
There have been cases where this process has been carried on at a distance, but in reality there is no distance in the sense of a break. Where is the distance that has a break? Is there any break between you and the sun? It is a continuous mass of matter, the sun being one part, and you another. Is there a break between one part of a river and another? Then why cannot any force travel? There is no reason against it. Cases of healing from a distance are perfectly true. The Prana can be transmitted to a very great distance; but to one genuine case, there are hundreds of frauds. This process of healing is not so easy as it is thought to be. In the most ordinary cases of such healing you will find that the healers simply take advantage of the naturally Healthy state of the human body. An allopath comes and treats cholera patients, and gives them his medicines. The homoeopath comes and gives his medicines, and cures perhaps more than the allopath does, because the homoeopath does not disturb his patients, but allows nature to deal with them. The Faith-healer cures more still, because he brings the strength of his mind to bear, and rouses, through faith, the dormant Prana of the patient.
There is a mistake constantly made by Faith-healers: they think that faith directly heals a man. But faith alone does not cover all the ground. There are diseases where the worst symptoms are that the patient never thinks that he has that disease. That tremendous faith of the patient is itself one symptom of the disease, and usually indicates that he will die quickly. In such cases the principle that faith cures does not apply. If it were faith alone that cured, these patients also would be cured. It is by the Prana that real curing comes. The pure man, who has controlled the Prana, has the power of bringing it into a certain state of vibration, which can be conveyed to others, arousing in them a similar vibration. You see that in everyday actions. I am talking to you. What am I trying to do? I am, so to say, bringing my mind to a certain state of vibration, and the more I succeed in bringing it to that state, the more you will be affected by what I say. All of you know that the day I am more enthusiastic, the more you enjoy the lecture; and when I am less enthusiastic, you feel lack of interest.
1.02 - Pranayama, Mantrayoga, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Pranayama is notably useful in quieting the emotions and appetites; and, whether by reason of the mechanical pressure which it asserts, or by the thorough combustion which it assures in the lungs, it seems to be admirable from the standpoint of Health. Digestive troubles in particular are very easy to remove in this way. It purifies both the body and the lower functions of the mind,
footnote: Emphatically. Emphatically. Emphatically. It is impossible to combine Pranayama properly performed with emotional thought. It should be resorted to immediately, at all times during life, when calm is threatened.
On the whole, the ambulatory practices are more generally useful to the Health than the sedentary; for in this way walking and fresh air are assured. But some of the sedentary practice should be done, and combined with meditation. Of course when actually "racing" to get results, walking is a distraction.
and should be practised certainly never less than one hour daily by the serious student.
1.02 - SADHANA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
Tamas. The strong, the well-knit, the young, the Healthy, the
daring alone are fit to be Yogis. To the Yogi everything is bliss,
1.02 - Self-Consecration, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
10:There is another direction in which the ordinary practice of Yoga arrives at a helpful but narrowing simplification which is denied to the Sadhaka of the integral aim. The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being, the stimulating but also embarrassing multiplicity of our personality, the rich endless confusion of Nature. To the ordinary man who lives upon his own waking surface, ignorant of the self's depths and vastnesses behind the veil, his psychological existence is fairly simple. A small but clamorous company of desires, some imperative intellectual and aesthetic cravings, some tastes, a few ruling or prominent ideas amid a great current of unconnected or ill-connected and mostly trivial thoughts, a number of more or less imperative vital needs, alternations of physical Health and disease, a scattered and inconsequent succession of joys and griefs, frequent minor disturbances and vicissitudes and rarer strong searchings and upheavals of mind or body, and through it all Nature, partly with the aid of his thought and will, partly without or in spite of it, arranging these things in some rough practical fashion, some tolerable disorderly order, -- this is the material of his existence. The average human being even now is in his inward existence as crude and undeveloped as was the bygone primitive man in his outward life. But as soon as we go deep within ourselves, -- and Yoga means a plunge into all the multiple profundities of' the soul, -- we find ourselves subjectively, as man in his growth has found himself objectively, surrounded by a whole complex world which we have to know and to conquer.
11:The most disconcerting discovery is to find that every part of us -- intellect, will, sense-mind, nervous or desire self, the heart, the body-has each, as it were, its own complex individuality and natural formation independent of the rest; it neither agrees with itself nor with the others nor with the representative ego which is the shadow cast by some central and centralising self on our superficial ignorance. We find that we are composed not of one but many personalities and each has its own demands and differing nature. Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order. Moreover, we find that inwardly too, no less than outwardly, we are not alone in the world; the sharp separateness of our ego was no more than a strong imposition and delusion; we do not exist in ourselves, we do not really live apart in an inner privacy or solitude. Our mind is a receiving, developing and modifying machine into which there is being constantly passed from moment to moment a ceaseless foreign flux, a streaming mass of disparate materials from above, from below, from outside. Much more than half our thoughts and feelings are not our own in the sense that they take form out of ourselves; of hardly anything can it be said that it is truly original to our nature. A large part comes to us from others or from the environment, whether as raw material or as manufactured imports; but still more largely they come from universal Nature here or from other worlds and planes and their beings and powers and influences; for we are overtopped and environed by other planes of consciousness, mind planes, life planes, subtle matter planes, from which our life and action here are fed, or fed on, pressed, dominated, made use offer the manifestation of their forms and forces. The difficulty of our separate salvation is immensely increased by this complexity and manifold openness and subjection to tile in-streaming energies of the universe. Of all this we have to take account, to deal with it, to know what is the secret stuff of our nature and its constituent and resultant motions and to create in it all a divine centre and a true harmony and luminous order.
1.02 - The 7 Habits An Overview, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
But if your paradigm is focused on Production, on getting the room clean, you might find yourself nagging her to do it. You might even escalate your efforts to threatening or yelling, and in your desire to get the golden egg, you undermine the Health and welfare of the goose.
Let me share with you an interesting PC experience I had with one of my daughters. We were planning a private date, which is something I enjoy regularly with each of my children. We find that the anticipation of the date is as satisfying as the realization.
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Effectiveness lies in the balance. Excessive focus on P results in ruined Health, worn-out machines, depleted bank accounts, and broken relationships. Too much focus on PC is like a person who runs for three or four hours a day, bragging about the extra 10 years of life it creates, unaware he's spending
them running. Or a person endlessly going to school, never producing, living on other people's golden eggs -- the eternal student syndrome.
To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (Production) and the Health and welfare of the goose (Production Capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness. It balances short term with long term. It balances going for the grade and paying the price to get an education. It balances the desire to have a room clean and the building of a relationship in which the child is internally committed to do it -- cheerfully, willingly, without external supervision.
It's a principle you can see validated in your own life when you burn the candle at both ends to get more golden eggs and wind up sick or exhausted, unable to produce any at all; or when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.
1.02 - The Child as growing being and the childs experience of encountering the teacher., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Zen
The psychologist, the observer of souls, the person of broad practical experience, and the doctor thus all become a unity, inso- far as the child is concerned. This is important, since anything28 that makes an impression on the child, anything that causes the souls response, continues in the circulation of the blood and in digestion, becoming a part of the foundation of Health in later years. Due to the imitative nature of the child, whenever we edu- cate childrens spirit and soul, we also educate their body and their physical constitution. This is the wonderful metamorphosis that whatever approaches children, touching their spirit and soul, becomes their physical, organic organization and their predisposi- tion to Health or illness in later life.
Consequently, we can say that if Waldorf schools educate out of spirit and soul, its not because we choose to work in an unbal- anced way with only the soul and spirit. Its because we know that this is how we physically educate the inner being in the highest sense of the word: the physical being exists within the envelope of the skin. Perhaps you recall yesterdays examples. Beginning with the model supplied by the human forces of heredity, the developing child builds a second human self, experienced in the second phase of life between the change of teeth and puberty. During the initial phase of life, we struggle to fashion a second, uninherited self out of whats present within our individuality as a result of experiences in earlier earthly lives during a purely spiritual existence between death and rebirth. During the second stage of life, between the change of teeth and puberty, the influences of the outer world likewise struggle against what our individuality wants to incorpo- rate into itself. During this second stage, external influences grow more pow- erful. The childs inner nature is streng thened, however, since at this point it no longer allows every influence in the environment to continue vibrating within the bodily organization as though it were mainly a sense organ. Sensory perception begins to be more concentrated at the surface, or periphery, of the childs constitu- tion. The senses now become more individual and autonomous, and for the first time there appears within us a way of relating to the world that isnt intellectual but rather is comparable only to an artistic view of life.
1.02 - The Human Soul, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
19.: As I said elsewhere,29' he works like a file, secretly and silently wearing its way: I will give you some examples to show how he begins his wiles. For instance: a nun has such a longing for penance as to feel no peace unless she is tormenting herself in some way.30' This is good in itself; but suppose that the Prioress has forbidden her to practise any mortifications without special leave, and the sister thinking that, in such a meritorious cause, she may venture to disobey, secretly leads such a life that she loses her Health and cannot even fulfil the requirements of her rule-you see how this show of good ends. Another nun is very zealous about religious perfection; this is very right, but may cause her to think every small fault she sees in her sisters a serious crime, and to watch constantly whether they do anything wrong, that she may run to the Prioress to accuse them of it. At the same time, may be she never notices her own shortcomings because of her great zeal about other people's religious observance, while perhaps her sisters, not seeing her intention but only knowing of the watch she keeps on them, do not take her behaviour in good part.
20.: The devil's chief aim here is to cool the charity and lessen the mutual affection of the nuns, which would injure them seriously. Be sure, my daughters, that true perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these command- ments, the more perfect we shall be. The sole object of our Rule and Constitutions is to help us to observe these two laws.
1.02 - The Necessity of Magick for All, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Now then, what bothers me it this: Have I or have I not explained this matter of "Magick" "Why should I (who have only just heard of it, at least as a serious subject of study) acquire a knowledge of its principles, and of the powers conferred by its mastery?" Must I bribe you with promises of Health, wealth, power over others, knowledge, thaumaturgical skill, success in every worldly ambition as I could quite honestly do? I hope there is no such need and yet, shall I confess it? it was only because all the good things of life were suddenly seen of me to be worthless, that I took the first steps towards the attainment of that Wisdom which, while enjoying to the full the "Feast of Life," guarantees me against surfeit, poison or interruption by the knowledge that it is all a Dream, and gives me the Power to turn that dream at will into any form that happens to appeal to my Inclination.
Let me sum up, very succinctly; as usual, my enthusiasm has lured me into embroidering my sage discourse with Poets' Imagery!
1.02 - The Recovery, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
It was, however, a simple Darshan. One by one the sadhaks stood for a brief moment before the One-in-Two, and passed on quietly thrilled and exalted by their silent look and gracious smile. The feelings of the sadhaks can be imagined when they saw their beloved Master restored to his normal Health! The Darshan was over within an hour, and when Sri Aurobindo was back in his room Dr. Rao remarked in his childlike manner, "Sir, you looked grand at the Darshan!" Sri Aurobindo smiled and we retorted, just to tease him, "At other times he doesn't?" Rao, nonplussed, replied, "No, no, I did not mean that." Truly, Rao had expressed the sentiments of hundreds of devotees who had a glimpse of him during the Darshan. What a grandeur and majesty in his simple silent pose! What a power, as if he held the whole world in the palm of his hand! If ever a human being could attain the stature of a god, he was there for all to see and be blessed by. Many have had a deep change after just one touch of his God-like magnificence. "A touch can alter the fixed front of Fate." Many had visions and boons they had long been seeking for, and for the sadhaks each Darshan was a step to a further milestone towards the Eternal. Sri Aurobindo had said: "Darshans are periods of great descents!" It was not for nothing that Hitler chose the 15th of August for his royal ascension in Buckingham Palace and got the first heavy blow. Nor was it for nothing that India gained her independence on that immortal day.
Now that Sri Aurobindo was physically all right, the Mother must find some work for him too! Most opportunely came a demand from the Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, for a book from Sri Aurobindo, preferably The Life Divine. The work had appeared long ago in the Arya and it could now be published in book form. The Mother caught hold of the idea and asked for his approval. Sri Aurobindo wanted to write one or two new chapters. So he set to work. A new writing table was made and placed in front of him across his bed, provided with three pens, two pencils and paper. For me it was a moment of great curiosity to see him at work. We had heard so much about the silent mind through which ideas, leaping down from above, passed directly into the pen, that I thought I could now put it to the test; as if one could see the silent mind as well as the invisible ideas descending one by one from above the ranges of the mind! At least I could see how he wrote. Was it at all like us, human beings, scrapping, stopping, thinking?
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With the improvement of his Health, he began to spend some hours sitting in a chair and devoting his entire time to spiritual, intellectual and creative activities. The accident had released him in a drastic manner from the 8 or 9 hours' labour of "correspondence". He could now take up the revision of all his major works, one after another. The first to see the light of day was the first volume of his magnum opus, The Life Divine. It was the end of 1939, the year of World War II. The publication of the Arya of which the Divine Life was the basic theme, started in 1914, the year of World War I. Can we call these mere coincidences? The two other volumes came out on the heels of the first one and were extensively rewritten. He composed many sonnets also. We used to see his pen indefatigably writing away page after page. We could not know what was being written, because, except for the sonnets, he passed everything to the Mother. She received it as a gift from God and sent it on to Prithwi Singh for typing. Though his eyesight was bad, his typing was so neat and clean, done with such minute care, that Sri Aurobindo was very pleased with his work.
So long as Sri Aurobindo could use his own eyes, we had no direct means of knowing what he was about. Of course, we could sometimes overhear or he would himself tell us about the topics, how far he had come, if something new he had added, etc. Purani and Satyendra were interested in The Life Divine, and the former would try to fish for some information regarding it. Sometimes Fate or Chance or even necessity helped us in knowing what the Master was doing.
1.02 - The Stages of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
It should be emphasized that the student must never lose himself in speculations on the meaning of one thing or another. Such intellectualizing will only draw him away from the right road. He should look out on the world with keen, Healthy senses and quickened power of observation, and then give himself up to the feeling that arises within him. He should not try to make out, through intellectual speculation, the meaning of things, but rather allow the things to disclose themselves. It should be remarked that artistic feeling, when coupled with a quiet introspective
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It is not surprising that all this appears to many as illusion. "What is the use of such visions," they ask, "and such hallucinations?" And many will thus fall away and abandon the path. But this is precisely the important point: not to confuse spiritual reality with imagination at this difficult stage of human evolution, and furthermore, to have the courage to press onward and not become timorous and faint-hearted. On the other hand, however, the necessity must be emphasized of maintaining unimpaired and of perpetually cultivating that Healthy sound sense which distinguishes truth from illusion. Fully conscious self-control must never be lost during all these exercises, and they must be accompanied by the same sane, sound thinking which is applied to the details of every-day life. To lapse into reveries would be fatal. The intellectual clarity, not to say the sobriety of thought, must never for a moment be dulled. The greatest mistake would be made if the student's mental balance
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1.02 - The Three European Worlds, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral
This Statement of Leonardo's is also a conceptual realization or actualization of perspective a realization that has determined the Western image of the world ever since. Perspective has determined and corresponded to this view to such a degree that even a mere generation after Leonardo (around 1530), Agrippa of Nettesheim was able to include a brief chapter entitled De Opticavel perspectiva in his late work De Incertitudine et Vanitate Scientiar