Treatment originates outside you; healing comes from within.

About Andrew Weil

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Andrew Thomas Weil (; born June 8, 1942) is an American physician and author known for advocating integrative medicine, an approach that combines conventional medical treatment with selected complementary and alternative therapies. He founded the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in 1994....

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Nonordinary 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, 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.

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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.… Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.

—Larry Dossey

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Here's the thing about broken hearts: You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger.

—Susan Wiggs in Summer At Willow Lake

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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

—John Burroughs

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

—Hubert H. Humphrey

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