The Healing Power of Illness Quotes

“Humanity’s path is the path towards greater awareness.”
― Thorwald Dethfefsen, The Healing Power of Illness

“Time is a product of our consciousness which we project onto the outer world. But then we go on to imagine that time somehow exists independently of us. On top of this, we suppose that time always flows in a straight line, and in one direction only, at that. We think of time as running from the past into the future, and too easily overlook the fact that what we call the present is the point at which both past and future meet.”
― Thorwald Dethfefsen, The Healing Power of Illness

“Equanimity involves seeking out the mid-point between the polarities and then contemplating from this point the constant, alternating pulse of the poles. Equanimity is the only attitude that allows us to look at phenomena without judging them – without any impassioned response, whether positive or negative, without identifying ourselves either way.”
― Thorwald Dethfefsen, The Healing Power of Illness

“All the deceptions of this world are relatively harmless compared with the one that we inflict on ourselves our whole life long. Honesty towards ourselves is one of the toughest challenges that we can face. That is why self-knowledge has immemorially been acknowledged as the most important and difficult task for those in search of Truth.”
― Thorwald Dethfefsen, The Healing Power of Illness

“He creates, yet does not possess, perfects life, yet claims no success. Because he claims nothing he never suffers loss.”
― Thorwald Dethfefsen, The Healing Power of Illness

“What the esoteric teachings show us is not how to escape from the world but how to transcend it. ‘Transcending the world’, however, is merely another term for ‘transcending polarity’, and this is synonymous with giving up the I, or ego – for wholeness is attainable only when we finally stop dividing off our I from the rest of existence”
― Thorwald Dethfefsen, The Healing Power of Illness