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But you mustn't be afraid. Neither afraid of falling ill, nor of becoming imbecile, nor even... of dying—you must be like this ("''vast and quiet gesture, like the sea"'').
If we could only have (I have it from time to time, it comes: it's on its way) a feeling of smiling trust. But to get that the consciousness must be as vast as the creation itself. You are as vast as the creation, and totally trusting.... Ultimately, it always boils down to this (which can be put in a very childlike manner): He knows better than we what has to be done. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/may-17-1972#p40</ref>
...all those physical disorders of the body, those disorders in the functioning or even organic disorders, suddenly (naturally, the constant state is one of aspiration: an intense, continuous, conscious aspiration) and suddenly—suddenly—an almost stupefying Response: all disorder disappears, not only inside but around (around, sometimes over a rather vast extent), and everything becomes automatically organized, harmonized, without the least effort, and it starts... moving within an extraordinary progressive harmony; then, with no apparent reason, without anything having changed in the consciousness and any outer circumstances making a difference, pfft! it reverts to what it was before: disorder, conflict, chaos, things that grate. And then, as you aren't conscious of the why, you don't have the key!...
...the only recourse is a blissful surrender (''gesture of immobile offering Upward'').. and not a heavy, not an inert surrender: intense, intense! ...That's the only thing. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/march-20-1965#p34,p37</ref>
==Medicine==
There is no such thing as an incurable illness in reality—for what the doctors call such is only an illness for which they have not yet been able to discover a physical remedy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p1</ref>
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But, each man can make his own experiment. If one has a bad throat, this may be due to the fact that the day before one was in a state of depression. Or perhaps one is very unhappy, dissatisfied, one finds everything very bad, and the next day one gets a cold in the head.... Everyone must make his own observations. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p4</ref>
Aphorism<199>
Disease will always return to the body if the soul is flawed; for the sins of the mind are the secret cause of the sins of the body. So too poverty and trouble will always return on man in society, so long as the mind of the race is subjected to egoism. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-199-200#p1</ref>
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...congenital diseases can be cured only by an integral transformation of the body itself and we have not reached yet that period in the sadhana; otherwise it is only a so-called "miraculous cure" that can take place and that kind of "miracle" can happen only as the result of an absolute sincerity in the consecration to the Divine and an unshakable faith in the Divine Grace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p13</ref>
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