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.

Rachel Naomi Remen

About Rachel Naomi Remen

Rachel Naomi Remen (born February 8, 1938, New York, New York) although trained as a pediatrician 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....

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