"I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phreno-magnetism, and the od force-I don't suppose you know about the od which Reichenbach discovered."

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Source : Edward Eggleston (1891). “The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York”, Ridgewood, N.J : Gregg Press

Edward Eggleston

#Healing Quotes #Roots Quotes #Mind Quotes

“If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.”
“When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.”
“This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.”
“On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.”
“Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return”
“Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.”
“I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people.”
“Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye. We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.”

Source : Babur (Emperor of Hindustan), Wheeler McIntosh Thackston (2002). “The Baburnama: memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor”, Modern Library

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