As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is somethi

As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. – Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979

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I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it. – Lorna Luft

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With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought. – Ernest Holmes, “Health Is Normal”

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