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Nature has implanted true instincts in our body to sustain and protect it. If we, through slavish acceptance of society's bad habits, pervert those instincts or dull their sensitivity and poison our body, Nature forces us to suffer sickness and pain as the warning consequences of such perversion.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 3 : The Origins of Illness > # 104