Sublime

Another key point is that we are our own best healers. I know this from my own healing journey with systemic lupus. The ceremonies and prayers I experienced with traditional healers have helped me restore my health back into wholeness. At an energetic level, my belief in my healing transmits energy to my four bodies and restores my health, which th

A. T. Ariyaratane, a Buddhist elder, who is considered to be the Gandhi of Sri Lanka.

Lost in a featureless wasteland of my own mortality, and finding no traction in the reams of scientific studies, intracellular molecular pathways, and endless curves of survival statistics, I began reading literature again: Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward, B. S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates, Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich, Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Woolf, Kafka, Mo

What matters is our attitude: I am

spouse, rather than the patient): “We’re gonna fight and beat this thing, Doc.” The armament varies, from prayer to wealth to herbs to stem cells. To me, that hardness always seems brittle, unrealistic optimism the only alternative to crushing despair.

Sufi teacher Idries Shah

A Year to Live,