Dear Friends,
Herewith I have the privilege to bring to your notice these wise words of our Master:
As in ancient times simple believers trusted the priest to send them to heaven or to the other place, so today the patient gives himself into the hands of the doctor. Can anyone with keen observation imagine that anybody else is capable of knowing as much about oneself as one could know oneself if one wished to? Is it a fault not to wish this? No, it is a habit. It is a kind of neglect of oneself that one does not think about one’s condition oneself and wants the physician to tell one what is the matter. The pain is in oneself, one can be the best judge of one’s life; one can find out the cause behind one’s own illness, because one knows one’s life best. Numberless souls today living this way, ignorant of their own condition, depend upon someone who has studied medical science outwardly. Even the physician cannot help one properly if one does not know one’s condition clearly. It is one’s own clear knowledge of one’s complaint that enables one to give the physician a correct idea.
The Sufi Message, Volume IV, Healing and the Mind World.
It is always very important to realize we have our own responsibility. We don’t have to swallow everything the doctor prescribes us, literally or figuratively. It is advisable always to inquire ourselves in every respect.
With loving greetings,
Sattva van Dorssen, Secretary of the Spiritual Healing Activity
Kafia van Zutphen, Assistant Secretary, Spiritual Healing Activity
