Body Wisdom
The Nutritive Soul
‘When I was sick,’ says Epicurus, ‘I never used to talk about my bodily ailments . . . Nor,’ he adds, ‘did I give the doctors a chance to brag of their own triumphs; my life merely went on its normal way, smoothly and happily.’ In sickness, then, if you are sick, or in trouble of any other kind, be like Epicurus. Never let go your hold on philosophy for anything that may befall, and never take part in the nonsense that is talked by the ignorant and uninstructed (this is a maxim on which all schools agree). Concentrate wholly on the task before you, and on the instrument you possess for its accomplishment.”
Marcus Aurelius
Tripartite Wisdom
Maple Leaf
mind
body
soul
Instead of silencing the wisdom of body that speaks in sneezes, migraines, tummy aches, even the absence of sensation, listening to its voice as a means to heal its beckoning cries.
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