17/02/2025
Learnt so much about the origin of disease from this book…the psychological profile of inflammatory conditions, cancer and neurological degenerative diseases. This is a part (at the end of the book) spoke to me…
“Everyone has an urge to create. Its expression may flow through many channels: through writing, art or music, through the inventiveness of work or in any number of ways unique to all of us, whether it be cooking, gardening or the art of social discourse. The point is to honour the urge. To do so is healing for ourselves and for others; not to do so deadens our bodies and our spirits. When I did not write, I suffocated in silence.
“What is in us must out,” wrote Hans Selye, “otherwise we may explode at the wrong places or become hopelessly hemmed in by frus-trations. The great art is to express our vitality through the particular channels and at the particular speed Nature foresaw for us.”
The second great affirmation is of the universe itself-our connection with all that is. The assumption that we are cut off, alone and without contact is toxic, but no matter how cruelly and how consistently life has shown us this dark shadow—it is no more than a bitter illusion.
It forms part of the pathological biology of belief”
