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We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
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A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual…
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the…
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for…
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The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
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It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and…
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its…
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About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.
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Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer…
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an…
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Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of…
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It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the…
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...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The…
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If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to…
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Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it…
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Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on…
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