Quotes about Health

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.

I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!

Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.

I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain.

Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.

A sacred myth keeps a people healthy, happy, and whole—even inside their pain. They give deep meaning, and pull us into "deep time" (which encompasses all time, past and future, geological and cosmological, and not just our little time or culture).

What I am calling in this book an incarnational worldview is the profound recognition of the presence of the divine in literally "every thing" and "every one." It is the key to mental and spiritual health, as well as to a kind of basic contentment and happiness. An incarnational worldview is the only way we can reconcile our inner worlds with the outer one, unity with diversity, physical with spiritual, individual with corporate, and divine with human.