- “Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.”
- “Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.”
- “I don’t think we have a health care system in America. What we have is a disease management system.”
- “The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it’s own mechanisms.”
- “Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food. “How did we get in the habit of thinking that the only legitimate way to manage disease is by giving drugs?”
- “You’ve got to experiment to figure out what works.”
- “If you told the average doctor to manage a case without giving a drug, he or she would not know what to do.”
- “It is absolutely essential to end federal subsidies to corn and soy and to begin to get subsidies to fruits and vegetables.”
- “We have to work for a broad cultural change in which health becomes cool. We need to create a culture of health in which better life style choices are fashionable, cool and fun.”
- “Health is an inner state of resilience and balance that allows you to move through life and not get hurt by all the things that have the potential to hurt you. If you are healthy, you can interact with germs and not be infected; you can interact with allergies and not get allergic responses; you can interact with toxins and not be harmed; you can interact with carcinogens and not develop malignancies.”
- “Our bodies have the ability to heal.This is what should be emphasized in education for all people and certainly in education of health professionals. Unfortunately, most people have no confidence in the body’s self-healing abilities.”
- “If I could summarize everything that I learned in one sentence it is to stop eating refined, processed and manufactured food.It’s that simple!”
- “The big question I was interested in was: Is it necessary to get sick as you get old? And research clearly says ‘no’, that the aging process is separable from age related diseases. It is possible to go through life and delay the onset and reduce the risk of these big serious degenerative diseases.”
- “The desire to transcend one’s own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be a universal longing. It motivates many of our activities from taking drugs to making love, and lies behind the search for new ways of getting close to one another that is so intense in our society today.”
- “The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.”
- ”I have argued that every human being is born with an innate drive to experience altered states of consciousness periodically – in particular to learn how to get away from ordinary ego-centered consciousness. I have also explained my intuition that this drive is a most important factor in our evolution, both as individuals and as a species. Non-ordinary experiences are vital to us because they are expressions of our unconscious minds, and the integration of conscious and unconscious experience is the key to life, health, and spiritual development, and fullest use of our nervous systems. By instilling fear and guilt about altered states of consciousness into our children, we force this drive underground, guaranteeing that it will be expressed in antisocial ways.”
- “Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.”
- “Any drug can be used successfully, no matter how bad it’s reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how accepted it is. There are no good or bad rugs; there are only good and bad relationships with drugs.”
- “I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of the variable emotional spectrum, either as an appropriate response to situations or as a way of turning inward and mentally chewing over problems to find solutions.”
- “Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.”
- “It is unrealistic to want to be happy all the time.”
- “I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.”
- “In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness.”
- “People who are contented and serene sleep well. They fall asleep easily, stay asleep, and wake refreshed. Conversely, people who are anxious, stressed, or depressed do not sleep well, and chronic insomnia is strongly associated with mood disorders. These are clear correlations, but what is cause and what is effect is not clear. Most experts agree that sleep and mood are closely related, that healthy sleep can enhance emotional well-being, while insufficient quantity or quality of sleep can adversely affect it.”
- “By keeping my hand in that, it’s the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.”
- “In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.”
