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Wisdom about health & longevity.
What people have learned about health & longevity the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.
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From the library
The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
For regulating the human (in our constitution) and rendering the (proper) service to the heavenly, there is nothing like moderation.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Who uses well his light, Reverting to its (source so) bright, Will from his body ward all blight, And hides the unchanging from men's sight.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
It is only by this moderation that there is effected an early return (to man's normal state). That early return is what I call the repeated accumulation of the attributes (of the Tao). With that repeated accumulation of those attributes, there comes the subjugation (of every obstacle to such return). Of this subjugation we know not what shall be the limit; and when one knows not what the limit…
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.