What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.