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Mens Sana In Corpore Sano

A Healthy Mind in A Healthy Body

Quotes in this post are from Nutrition: A Holistic Approach by Rudolf Hauschka.

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“We have made use of our thoughts to develop techniques which aim to build a civilization based on comfort. Those who notice how narrow and egotistical this self-serving use of thought is may also find, as they observe themselves, that their thinking has become shadowy and abstract; it can no longer lay hold on the reality of the cosmos. Such individuals may begin to wonder what would happen if they served thinking instead of making it serve them. What would be the result of making oneself a perceptive organ for the power of thought, of concentrating one’s whole being in the act of listening? One who practices this art will find himself able, with this selfless new thinking, to enter the realm of living metamorphosis, where thoughts grow and become expressions of the creative thinking of the cosmos. He comes into touch with objective reality, with essential being.” p 45

What Does Cookery Mean?

What Does Cookery Mean?

By John Ruskin It means the knowledge of Medea, and of Circe, and of Calypso, and of Helen, and of Rebekah, and of the Queen of Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms, and spices, and of all that is healing and sweet in groves, and savory in meat. It means carefu ...

Gotta Grow GARLIC!!!!

Gotta Grow GARLIC!!!!

Extra Pungent and Powerful... "It is truth, garlic gives man youth." --cry of 5th century Greek garlic street hawkers Allium sativum has been called many things from bountiful bulb to poor man's treacle Liliaceae: Lily Family. The other members of this family-the onion and leek, also cont ...

Garlic

Garlic

A feast is not a feast unless to begin Each guest is given ample Toes of Garlic, That finest aphrodisiac To whet his appetite for later revelry Quintus Horace (65-8BC) Garlic has been used for thousands of years all over the planet for health, strength and protection in man and animal. If th ...