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The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.

Paracelsus

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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Fools Ourselves Reality Regard Time
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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Case Doubt Feeling Guide Known Life
The dose makes the poison.
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Dosage One Liner Poison
Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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Dosage Drugs
In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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Break Heaven Human
What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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Beginning Bliss Death Earth God Holy Kingdom Life
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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Breathe Flow Himself Live Source
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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Art Doctor Healing Mindset Nature
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Be Yourself Original
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Alchemy Magic Process
Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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Man Perception Power See Spiritual
All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
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Amount Dosage Poison Quality
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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Attack Body Fight Health Himself Nature Sick
But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
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Body Creation Greatness Sick Soul
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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Leave Nature Reading Walk

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