Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man – he must view the man in his world.

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.

Emotional pain rarely comes up for me now. When it does, for sure, I feel it. But then, fortunately, through my life experience and my practices, I’m able to see it for what it is, and I’m able to use the techniques that yoga and Ayurveda have to offer us.

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.