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“Medicine is not a science but a profession, a matter of practice… It goes to science and takes whatever results of research it considers efficacious; but it leaves all the rest. It leaves particularly what is most characteristic of science: the cultivation of the problematic and doubtful.”
― Can Medicine Be Cured?: The Corruption of a Profession
― Can Medicine Be Cured?: The Corruption of a Profession
“The pure Yang forms the heaven, and the turbid Yin forms the earth. The Qi of the earth ascends and turns into clouds, while the Qi of the heaven turns into rain.”
― The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine: A New Translation of the Neijing Suwen with Commentary
― The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine: A New Translation of the Neijing Suwen with Commentary
“A myriad bubbles were floating on the surface of a stream.
'What are you?' I cried to them as they drifted by.
'I am a bubble, of course' nearly a myriad bubbles answered, and there was surprise and indignation in their voices as they passed.
But, here and there, a lonely bubble answered,
'We are this stream', and there was neither surprise nor indignation in their voices, but just a quiet certitude.”
―
'What are you?' I cried to them as they drifted by.
'I am a bubble, of course' nearly a myriad bubbles answered, and there was surprise and indignation in their voices as they passed.
But, here and there, a lonely bubble answered,
'We are this stream', and there was neither surprise nor indignation in their voices, but just a quiet certitude.”
―
“At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge.”
― The Field
― The Field
“What you see in ‘others’ is actually a reflection of your own belief system. In the context of what you have learned so far, try and think of a circumstance where you do not think you are viewing your own beliefs in action. You may recall that in the state of consciousness called 'ego', you create your ‘personal’ experiences. Therefore, under normal circumstances, it is impossible to see someone else’s 'personal' experiences, just as whilst dreaming it is impossible to see someone else's 'personal’ dream. Remember that communications concerning spacetime and emotions are filtered through created states of consciousness that are called ‘personality’ and ‘ego’. The communications that pass through the ‘ego’s’ belief system become your ‘waking state’ reality.”
― The Nature of Reality: Exploding The Mind Body Spirit Myth
― The Nature of Reality: Exploding The Mind Body Spirit Myth
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