Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
ParacelsusConsider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.
ParacelsusFor it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
ParacelsusThe spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animals, and it may cure them ..Ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul.
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