Daily Meditation: Monday, April 21, 2025

Health - there is one health and an infinite number of illnesses

04/21/2025

When we are in good health, no comment is needed for all is well. A person in good health feels like a harmonious whole. If you ask them how they are, they reply, ‘Fine!’ One word says it all. But when people are ill… Oh, the stories are endless! From our head to our toes there are so many parts of the body that can hurt, and so many different ways in which they can fail to function properly. And then, how complicated it becomes to eat, drink, sleep, breathe, walk, hear, see, work or study! Health, you could say, is one. There are not two or three different kinds, no, just one. On the other hand, there is an infinite number of different illnesses. We do not even know them all, for new ones are constantly appearing, brought on each time by the senseless way people live. Our organs are designed to work together to maintain the oneness of health, of life. So you see, health is unity; life is unity. Illness and death, on the contrary, are separation, division and dislocation. All our efforts must lead us to the oneness that is synonymous with simplicity. Salvation lies in the simplicity of the number One.*