To be healthy is to be
whole and to be holy.
It is to acknowledge
the great goodness that our bodies are
linked to the bodies of other people,
to the bodies of plants and animals,
indeed to the earth,
the sun and moon,
and the other heavenly bodies.
It is to receive the awareness,
at once humbling and exhilarating,
that we are a part of Creation,
one with all that we live from
and all that, in turn,
lives from us.
- Wendell Berry
