Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.

The skin is an integral part of the body and depends upon the general system for its supply of food and to carry away its waste. Skin health depends primarily upon the general health of...

There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.

If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your...

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing...

Natural laws admit of no exceptions.

Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.

There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.

The effort to cure disease has been, without doubt, the greatest curse that has ever been perpetrated upon the human race. The idea that disease is something that must be cured, the idea that it...

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

The power to assimilate crude inorganic matter as it is found in the soil, and convert it into living protoplasm and other organic substances, or to use such substances in performing physiological function, does not...

You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.

There are no healing agents.

A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons....

You don’t need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don’t try to ‘aid’ nature. She doesn’t need your...

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and...

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.

We cannot be damaged into health.

Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant...

Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.