I heard a Tibetan lama address this same issue in a far different language. "We die not because we are ill but because we are complete. . . . Illness is the occasion of our dying, but not the cause.

About Rachel Naomi Remen

Rachel Naomi Remen (born February 8, 1938, New York, New York) is a pediatrician who gained fame as an author and teacher of alternative medicine in the form of integrative medicine. She is a professor at the Osher Center of Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Together...