Dean Ornish Quotes

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• When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go…
• One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends with his family.…
• Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much…
• Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health is not something you need…
• I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and…
• Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.
• Awareness-mindfulness-is the first step in healing. In Counterclockwise, Dr. Ellen Langer eloquently describes how becoming more aware of our beliefs and expectations allows us to…
• We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That information can be…
• Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in…
• Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
• When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is…
• I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.
• Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.
• Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and…
• At a time when 20% of people in the US go to bed hungry each night and almost 50% of the world's population is malnourished,…
• The healing power of love and relationships has been documented in an increasing number of well-designed scientific studies involving hundreds of thousands of people throughout…
• People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time…
• People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.
• The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.
• Love and intimacy are at the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well...I am not aware of any other factor in…

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