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| + | == Definitions == | ||
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"The Pillar of Health deals with both your mental health and your physical health, both of which must be effective enough and sustained enough to enable you to seek for a greater experience in life. If you are crippled emotionally or psychologically, then that must be corrected, or you will not have the focus and the energy to recognize and to pursue your greater purpose for being here." | "The Pillar of Health deals with both your mental health and your physical health, both of which must be effective enough and sustained enough to enable you to seek for a greater experience in life. If you are crippled emotionally or psychologically, then that must be corrected, or you will not have the focus and the energy to recognize and to pursue your greater purpose for being here." | ||
*The New Message for Young People (Aug 18, 2008) | *The New Message for Young People (Aug 18, 2008) | ||
| + | “Health is vitality. It is the vitality born of living a genuine life—a life that is full of meaning and purpose, a life that has direction and a life that is meaningfully engaged with others and with the world. This produces a vitality, a will to live and a desire to contribute—a certain zest for life.” | ||
| + | *Living The Way of Knowledge, chap. 4, p. 25 | ||
| + | == Directives == | ||
| + | "Develop a high degree of health." | ||
| + | *[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]], vol. I, chap. 6, p. 65 | ||
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| + | “Eat well. Get enough sleep. Have daily exercise. Engage with the right people. Follow what you know. And keep asking for Knowledge. If you engage with the wrong people, it will undermine your health and well-being and will bring you back into confusion and disorientation. Follow what is simple and understood. Perhaps you have said to yourself, 'I know I shouldn't do this,' or 'I know I should do that.' Go do it. Do what you know. Why hesitate? What are you waiting for? Do not wait until a crisis occurs. Do not wait until a little problem has become a big problem. There is much you know already that you need to do to maintain your body and to have greater health mentally. Do those things. Do not ask for more. For you cannot use more until you use what you have today." | ||
| + | *Living The Way of Knowledge, chap. 4, pp. 37-38 | ||
| + | "You are not here to work on a body.You are simply asked not to | ||
| + | damage it so that you can accomplish something of importance here." | ||
| + | *[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]], vol. I, chap. 6, p. 70 | ||
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| + | == See also == | ||
| + | *Living The Way of Knowledge, chap. 4: The Pillar of Health | ||
| + | *[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]], vol. I, chap. 6: Health | ||
[[category:four Pillars/Health]] | [[category:four Pillars/Health]] | ||
Revision as of 04:21, 29 November 2011
Definitions
"The Pillar of Health deals with both your mental health and your physical health, both of which must be effective enough and sustained enough to enable you to seek for a greater experience in life. If you are crippled emotionally or psychologically, then that must be corrected, or you will not have the focus and the energy to recognize and to pursue your greater purpose for being here."
- The New Message for Young People (Aug 18, 2008)
“Health is vitality. It is the vitality born of living a genuine life—a life that is full of meaning and purpose, a life that has direction and a life that is meaningfully engaged with others and with the world. This produces a vitality, a will to live and a desire to contribute—a certain zest for life.”
- Living The Way of Knowledge, chap. 4, p. 25
Directives
"Develop a high degree of health."
- Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. I, chap. 6, p. 65
“Eat well. Get enough sleep. Have daily exercise. Engage with the right people. Follow what you know. And keep asking for Knowledge. If you engage with the wrong people, it will undermine your health and well-being and will bring you back into confusion and disorientation. Follow what is simple and understood. Perhaps you have said to yourself, 'I know I shouldn't do this,' or 'I know I should do that.' Go do it. Do what you know. Why hesitate? What are you waiting for? Do not wait until a crisis occurs. Do not wait until a little problem has become a big problem. There is much you know already that you need to do to maintain your body and to have greater health mentally. Do those things. Do not ask for more. For you cannot use more until you use what you have today."
- Living The Way of Knowledge, chap. 4, pp. 37-38
"You are not here to work on a body.You are simply asked not to damage it so that you can accomplish something of importance here."
- Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. I, chap. 6, p. 70
See also
- Living The Way of Knowledge, chap. 4: The Pillar of Health
- Wisdom from The Greater Community, vol. I, chap. 6: Health