Science

Star (12.12, '12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Science cannot take away the ultimate mystery of life,

nor can it detract from the spiritual component of healing. 

James Oschman

Religion

RCC_2809, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Religion makes experience meaningful and sacred – or it expresses the fact that these things are true of experience, properly understood.

It does indeed add another dimension to experience. 

Marilynne Robinson

Greatest disease

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or Leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love.

Mother Teresa, A Simple Path