{"quotes":[{"text":"A great friend can act like a trash can with a hole in the bottom. To listen to someone else's personal garbage with the same empathy you would spend listening to their joy, and then release that garbage just as quickly as you hear it, without absorbing it, makes you a wonderful friend to that person--and an even better one to yourself.","author":"Doug \"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"Ten\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\" Rose","tags":["friendship","immune-system","personal-development","personal-growth","self-help"],"id":17120,"author_id":"Doug+%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22Ten%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22%22+Rose"},{"text":"Dr. Richard Selzer is a surgeon and a favorite author of mine. He writes the most beautiful and compassionate descriptions of his patients and the human dramas they confront. In his book Letters to a Young Doctor, he said that most young people seem to be protected for a time by an imaginary membrane that shields them from horror. They walk in it every day but are hardly aware of its presence. As the immune system protects the human body from the unseen threat of harmful bacteria, so this mythical membrane guards them from life-threatening situations. Not every young person has this protection, of course, because children do die of cancer, congenital heart problems, and other disorders. But most of them are shielded—and don’t realize it. Then, as years roll by, one day it happens. Without warning, the membrane tears, and horror seeps into a person’s life or into the life of a loved one. It is at this moment that an unexpected theological crisis presents itself.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["and","aware","bacteria","be","beautiful","body","book","by","cancer","children","compassionate","confront","congenital-heart-problems","crisis","descriptions","die","disorders","do","doctor-richard-selzer","don-t","dramas","every","every-day","from","guards","happens","hardly","harmful","his","horror","human","imaginary","immune-system","into","it","its","itself","letters-to-a-young-doctor","life","life-threatening","loved-one","membrane","moment","most","mythical","not","of","one-day","other","patients","people","person","person-s","presence","presents","protected","protection","protects","realize","roll","seem","seeps","shields","situations","surgeon","tears","the","them","theological","they","threat","time","to","unexpected","unseen","walk","warning","without","years","young"],"id":28622,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aids","antiretroviral","antiretroviral-therapies","antiretroviral-therapy","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","arv","arvs","cd4-cells","cd4-count","cd4-t-lymphocytes","cellular-immunity","dead","death","die","disease","diseases","funny","hiv","hiv-aids","hiv-negative","hiv-positive","human-immunodeficiency-virus","humor","humour","ill","illness","illnesses","immune","immune-system","immunity","joke","jokes","satire","sick","sickness","standard-antiretroviral-therapy","virus","viruses"],"id":55546,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: 'What we must first remember is that the immune system is designed to detect foreign invaders, and avoid out own cells. With few exceptions, the immune system does not appear to recognize cancers within an individual as foreign, because they are actually part of the self.","author":"Barbara Ehrenreich","tags":["breast-cancer","cancer","clinical-oncology","immune-system","medicine","oncology","positive-thinking","psychology"],"id":79245,"author_id":"Barbara+Ehrenreich"},{"text":"The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["apathy","attitude","brain","care","caring","compassion","conscience","desensitize","desensitized","emotion","emotions","empathetic","empathy","feelings","gut","humans","identify","immune-system","immunity","medicine","mind","nervous-system","neurological","not-caring","reasoning","relate","sensitive","spirituality","sympathy"],"id":155364,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["accident","accidents","aids","antiretroviral","antiretroviral-therapies","antiretroviral-therapy","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","arv","arvs","cd4-cells","cd4-count","cd4-t-lymphocytes","cellular-immunity","dead","death","die","disease","diseases","funny","hiv","hiv-aids","hiv-negative","hiv-positive","human-immunodeficiency-virus","humor","humour","ill","illness","illnesses","immune","immune-system","immunity","joke","jokes","kill","killed","killer","killers","killing","satire","self-murder","sick","sickness","standard-antiretroviral-therapy","suicidal","suicide","virus","viruses"],"id":164913,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans. Bad bacteria in the gut creates neurological issues. Autism can be cured by detoxifying the bellies of young children. People who think that feelings come from the heart are wrong. The gut is where you feel the loss of a loved one first. It's where you feel pain and a heavy bulk of your emotions. It's the central base of your entire immune system. If your gut is loaded with negative bacteria, it affects your mind. Your heart is the seat of your conscience. If your mind is corrupted, it affects your conscience. The heart is the Sun. The gut is the Moon. The pineal gland is Neptune, and your brain and nervous system (5 senses) are Mercury. What affects the moon or sun affects the entire universe within. So, if you poison the gut, it affects your entire nervous system, your sense of reasoning, and your senses.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["apathy","attitude","autism","autistic","awareness","bacteria","belly","body","brain","care","caring","children","compassion","conscience","cures","desensitize","desensitized","detox","detoxifying","eating","eczema","ego","emotion","emotions","empathetic","empathy","feelings","five-senses","fluoride","fungus","gut","health","healthy","healthy-living","heart","humans","identify","immune-system","immunity","lifestyle","loss","medical","medicine","mental","mercury","mind","moon","neptune","nervous-system","neurological","neurological-disorder","not-caring","pain","pineal-gland","planets","poison","reason","reasoning","relate","science","senses","sensitive","spirituality","sun","sympathy","thinking","toxins","universe"],"id":231872,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"My strategy is to stop the assaults--to reduce the number of factors your immune system has to deal with by cleaning up your diet, healing your gut, lightening your toxic burden, treating your infections, and reducing your overall stress.","author":"Amy Myers","tags":["diet","gut","health","immune-system"],"id":251113,"author_id":"Amy+Myers"},{"text":"Our immune system is evolving through trials of use in fighting illnesses and the bombardment of our modern world toxins and that this evolution not only engages the strengthening of the body and it’s T-Cell use but also our emotional intelligence and a higher awareness of our human nature and its original DNA coding as a highly self-reflective and intelligence evolving entity.","author":"Martha Char Love","tags":["evolutionary-psychology","health","human-nature","immune-system","psychology","t-cells"],"id":315132,"author_id":"Martha+Char+Love"},{"text":"...Only very few - only humans, as far as we know - achieve the second level of transcendent movement. Through this, the environment is de-restricted to become the world as an integral whole of manifest and latent elements. The second step is the work of language. This not only builds the 'house of being' - Heidegger took this phrase from Zarathustra's animals, which inform the convalescent: 'the house of being rebuilds itself eternally'; it is also the vehicle for the tendencies to run away from that house with which, by means of its inner surpluses, humans move towards the open. It need hardly be explained why the oldest parasite in the world, the world above, only appears with the second transcendence.","author":"Peter Sloterdijk","tags":["house-of-being","immune-system","language","transcendence"],"id":362230,"author_id":"Peter+Sloterdijk"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}