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If one emotion brings a blush of blood to the face, another takes the blood away and leaves pallor. In the first case, it has led the minute arteries of the skin to expand; in the second case, it has led them to contract. If this is what a momentary state of mind can do to the body, imagine what a persistent state can do!

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 3 : The Origins of Illness > # 76