“the sunlight will become the medicine, first for the health of the eye and then for the health of the mind”

— Hira Ratan Manek

The lecture in Ashland, Oregon (8th of July 2005)

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Hira Ratan Manek (1937)

The lecture in Ashland, Oregon (8th of July 2005)

“Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.”

William Rathje (1945–2012) American archaeologist

Atlantic Monthly, December 1989.

“Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn’t organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.”

Ivan Illich book Medical Nemesis

Medical Nemesis (1976)

“The autonomy so evident in social movements is hitting the old assumptions of medicine hard. The search for self becomes a search for health, for wholeness—the cache of sanity search for health, for wholeness—the cache of sanity and wisdom that once seemed beyond our conscious reach.”

Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Eight, Healing Ourselves, p. 241

“The First wealth is health.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.”

Plutarch book Parallel Lives

Demetrius, sec. 1
Parallel Lives

“Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.”

Avicenna (980–1037) medieval Persian polymath, physician, and philosopher

As quoted in The Pursuit of Learning in the Islamic World, 610-2003 http://books.google.com.bh/books?id=KTWDxDEY-Q0C&lpg=PA75&dq=Medicine%20considers%20the%20human%20body%20as%20to%20the%20means%20by%20which%20it%20is%20cured%20and%20by%20which%20it%20is%20driven%20away%20from%20health.&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q=Medicine%20considers%20the%20human%20body%20as%20to%20the%20means%20by%20which%20it%20is%20cured%20and%20by%20which%20it%20is%20driven%20away%20from%20health.&f=false (2006), by Hunt Janin, p. 75.