The sacrifices we make to stay healthy, to look good, the tasty foods we skip, the guilt trips, the exercising - all these things require great discipline, care, and even a paradoxical, self-denying self-love of sorts in order to be properly executed. However it is regretful that so many of us today are not as passionate about our spiritual holiness as we are about our physical health. They are indeed both important - we should worship in every aspect of our lives - and one even, in a sense, entails the other. Although, this disproportion in said priorities is still very much expected: we humans have always taken a liking to trendiness and the temporal side of things, doing what is judged vainly in the eyes of man before that which is judged vitally and eternally in the eyes of God (i.e. cleaning the outside of one's cup while leaving a filthy inside). But in a way, it all goes to show that the man who fully hates discipline hates himself fully; for within the spirit is where The Holy One judges true wellness or malady.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Ailment Apologetics Body Care Death Dedication Diet Discipline Disease Disobedience Eating Eternal Exercise Food Fullness God Guilt Health Holiness Malady Nutrition Obedience Paradox Physical Sacrifice Self Denial Self Help Self Love Sickness Spiritual Temporary Transformation Trendiness Vanity Wellness Worship

We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of smell to do the exact same thing. It is known that the scent of fresh rosemary increases memory, but this cure for memory loss is not divulged by doctors to help the elderly. I also know that the most effective use of the blue lotus flower is not from its dilution with wine or tea – but from its scent. To really maximize the positive effects of the blue lily (or the pink lotus), it must be sniffed within minutes of plucking. This is why it is frequently shown being sniffed by my ancient ancestors on the walls of temples and on papyrus. Even countries across the Orient share the same imagery. The sacred lotus not only creates a relaxing sensation of euphoria, and increases vibrations of the heart, but also triggers genetic memory - and good memory with an awakened heart ushers wisdom.

~ Suzy Kassem

Suzy Kassem Ailment Ancient Egyptians Ancient Medicine Awakened Awakened Heart Blue Lily Cure Cures Doctors East Egypt Egyptians Elderly Enlightenment Euphoria Flower Flowers Fluids Genetic Memory Genetics Health Healthcare Heart Illness Illnesses Imagery Sacred Increaes Memory Lily Lotus Lotus Flower Medicine Memory Memory Loss Metaphysics Orient Papyrus Philosophy Physicians Pills Power Power Of Scent Power Of Smell Remedy Rosemary Sacred Lotus Scent Scripture Smell Smelling Tea Temples Tombs Treatment Vibrations Wine Wisdom

Chronic problems tend to come from chronic habits.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Ailment Chronic Habits Chronic Problems Habits Healing Life Habits Self Imposed

Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by the body as a free pathogen to infect the consciousness with stray sentiments? Perhaps, in his dreams, he had traveled back in time, or even drifted into another dimension of space-time and inhabited the body, experiences, and nostalgia of another. To even envisage so allowed the trauma of those lost moments, though not his own, to draw from him a certain envy for the entity in whose memories he had basked vicariously. . .Perhaps, nostalgia was a microorganism. . .the bacterium that infected. . . Yes. . .maybe he was sick.

~ Ashim Shanker

Ashim Shanker Ailment Bacterium Consciousness Entity Envy Infection Lost Time Microorganisms Multiple Personalities Multiple Universes Nostalgia Pathogen Plague Remembrance Of Things Past Time Travel Vicarious Experience

The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Jalaluddin Rumi Ailment Lover