The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes personal empowerment in reclaiming health and balance through conscious choices.
In this quote, John Robbins highlights the importance of taking control over our physical well-being and making deliberate choices regarding our diet and lifestyle. He suggests that by doing so, we can heal both physically and emotionally, enabling us to realize our fullest potential and live a more vibrant and fulfilling life.
In practice
During a wellness workshop, to inspire participants to take action towards healthier living.
Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than your right to know how your food is produced. But beneath the surface, a revolution is growing.
Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.
I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.
The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.
Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.
A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.
We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.
But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.
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