HMHerbert M. Shelton

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Herbert M. Shelton

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01Undated

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

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02Undated

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

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03Undated

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

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04Undated

You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don't try to 'aid' nature. She doesn't need your puny aid—she only asks that you cease interfering.

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05Undated

You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.

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06Undated

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

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07Undated

What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon.

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08Undated

The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.

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09Undated

Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.

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10Undated

Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant as the turning of the earth on its axis. Man can neither duplicate nor imitate nor provide a substitute for the process. All schools of healing are frauds.

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11Undated

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

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12Undated

There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.

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13Undated

There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.

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14Undated

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

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15Undated

Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.

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16Undated

We cannot be damaged into health.

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17Undated

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

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18Undated

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

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19Undated

There are no healing agents.

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20Undated

Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.

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21Undated

The intelligent person, viewing the great number of so-called diseases that arise out of this prostration of the functions of life, and realising that they have one and all grown out of the habitual violations of the laws of life, will recognise at once that the first step in the restoration of health needs must be to make amends at once by the unconditional return to the simplicity and perfect obedience to the laws that have been so perseveringly violated.

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22Undated

The skin is an integral part of the body and depends upon the general system for its supply of food and to carry away its waste. Skin health depends primarily upon the general health of the body. All attempts to deal with the skin as an independent entity, without due regard to its reliance upon the general system, must of necessity result in failure. The skin is nourished by the blood and there is no other source from which it can draw sustenance. "Skin foods" are all frauds. These are composed chiefly of grease. No fat can be assimilated by the skin or other tissues of the body until it has first been broken down into its constituent fatty acids in the process of digestion. Even were this not true, the skin contains very little fat and these "skin foods" would still not constitute proper nourishment for it. Blood is the only skin food.

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23Undated

If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with the laws of nature—this and this alone constitutes living to live.

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24Undated

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

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