Read the letter of Hahnemann, written to his tailor.

(this is a letter written to his tailor, by Samuel Hahnemman)

My Dear Sir,

It is true that I am going to Hamburg, but that need not trouble you. If you do not grudge the few groschen a letter will cost, you can still have my advice when I am there. Merely write my name, and Hamburg beneath it, and your letter so addressed will find me.

For the present I must say that you are on the fair road to health, and the chief sources of your malady cut off. One source still remains and it is the cause of your last relapse. Man (the delicate human machine) is not constituted for overwork, he cannot overwork his powers or faculties with impunity. If he does so from ambition, love of gain, or other praiseworthy or blameworthy motive, he sets himself in opposition to the order of nature, and his body suffers injury or destruction. All the more if his body is already in a weakened condition; what you cannot accomplish in a week you can do in two weeks. If your customers will not wait, they cannot fairly expect that you will for their sakes make yourself ill and work yourself to the grave, leaving your wife a widow and your children orphans.

It is not only the greater bodily exertion that injures you, it is even more the attendant strain on the mind, and the overwrought mind in its turn affects the body injuriously. If you do not assume an attitude of cool indifference, adopting the principle of living first for yourself and only secondly for others, then there is small chance of your recovery. When you are in your grave men will still be clothed, perhaps not as tastefully, but still tolerably well.

If you are a philosopher you may become healthy, you may attain to old age. If anything annoys you give no heed to it; if anything is too much for you have nothing to do with it; if any one seeks to drive you go, slowly and laugh at the fools who wish to make you unhappy. What you can do comfortably that do; what you cannot do, don’t bother yourself about.

Our temporal circumstances are not improved by overpressure at work. You must spend proportionately more in your domestic affairs, and so nothing is gained. Economy, limitation of superfluities (of which the hard worker has often very few) place us in a position to live with greater comfort — that is to say, more rationally, more intelligently, more in accordance with nature, more cheerfully, more quietly, more healthily. Thus we shall act more commendably, more wisely, more prudently, than by working in breathless hurry, with our nerves constantly over strung, to the destruction of the most precious treasure of life, calmly happy spirits and good health.

Be you more prudent, consider yourself first, let everything else be of only secondary importance for you. And should they venture to assert that you are in honor bound to do more than is good for your mental and physical powers, even then do not, for God’s sake, allow yourself to be driven to do what is contrary to your own welfare. Remain deaf to the bribery of praise, remain cold and pursue your own course slowly and quietly like a wise and sensible man. To enjoy with tranquil mind and body, that is what man is in the world for, and only to do as much work as will procure him the means of enjoyment — certainly not to excoriate and wear himself out with work.

The everlasting pushing and striving of blinded mortals in order to gain so and so much, to secure some honor or other, to do a service to this or that great personage—this is generally fatal to our welfare, this is a common cause of young people ageing and dying before their time.

The calm, cold-blooded man, who lets things softly glide, attains his object also, lives more tranquilly and healthily, and attains a good old age. And this leisurely man sometimes lights upon a lucky idea, the fruit of serious original thought, which shall give a much more profitable impetus to his temporal affairs than can ever be gained by the overwrought man who can never find time to collect his thoughts.

In order to win the race, quickness is not all that is required. Strive to obtain a little indifference, coolness and calmness, then you will be what I wish you to be. Then you will see marvelous things; you will see how healthy you will become by following my advice. Then shall your blood course through your blood vessels calmly and sedately, without effort and without heat. No horrible dreams disturb the sleep of him who lies down to rest without highly strung nerves. The man who is free from care wakes in the morning without anxiety about the multifarious occupations of the day. What does he care ? The happiness of life concerns him more than anything else. With fresh vigor he sets about his moderate work and at his meals nothing, no ebullitions of blood, no cares, no solicitude of mind hinders him from relishing what the beneficent Preserver of Life sets before him. And so one day follows another in quiet succession, until the final day of advanced age brings him to the termination of a well spent life, and he serenely reposes in another world as he has calmly lived in this one.

Is not that more rational, more sensible? Let restless, self destroying men act as irrationally, as injuriously towards themselves as they please; let them be fools. But be you wiser! Do not let me preach this wisdom of life in vain. I mean well to you.

Farewell, follow my advice, and when all goes well with you, remember, Dr. S. Hahnemann.

“P. S.—Should you be reduced to your last sixpence, be still cheerful and happy. Providence watches over us, and a lucky chance makes all right again. How much do we need in order to live, to restore our powers by food and drink, to shield ourselves from cold and heat? Little more than good courage; when we have that the minor essentials we can find without much trouble. The wise man needs but little. Strength that is husbanded needs not to be renovated by medicine.”

(Note: The tailor lived to be 92!)

From: The life and letters of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann by Thomas Lindsley Bradford – Chapter xvi. Monthly Hom. Review, Vol. 31, p. 617. N. E. Med. Gazette, March, 1887

funny, we do not consider this.

It costs you nothing to be natural.

OK, how about making money reading articles?

very inspiring words....

Golden words of Martin Luther King --
" if you cannot fly ----- run !
if you cannot run ----- walk !
if you cannot even walk ----- crawl ! .

But, whatever you do, keep MOVING .

----------- These are really very positive motivating words. And, if you really follow such a pattern in life, there shall be total success and happiness.

In fact, END is not an end at all. It is acronym for Effort Never Dies.

Always be positive and think positive. Good LUCK.
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16th - 17th and 18th remedies.

HONEY SUCKLE: Always thinking of the past, talks of the past events—lives in the past. Cannot break contact with the past events. Regrets and remorse for the past events. Does not live in the present, and makes no effort to solve the present difficulties. When a difficult situation arises, he escapes to the past, as if the present does not belong to him. Cannot get over the loss of a person one loved.

HORN BEAM: Mental weariness. Feels tired and exhausted even before he has started the work. Awakes in the morning but feels too weak to leave the bed. Visualizes the work to be done, and without touching the work feels weak and exhausted. Once he starts doing the work, he accomplishes it without difficulty. But this mental lethargy is the cause of his feeling of weakness. Feels more tired in the morning after night’s rest than in the evening after day’s labor.

IMPATIENCE: Impatience in all walks of life—in thought, in action, in temper, very quick in thinking, in deciding, in action, in speaking, in eating. Cannot tolerate slow or even normal speed of others. Would even snatch a piece of wood from another worker to finish it quickly. Their anger, although it flares up quickly, it subsides quickly. ‘Impatience’ type bosses and instructors never prove popular amongst their subordinates or trainees. Very restless when waiting in queue outside doctors’ clinic, at bus stop or railway stations. Quick tempered.

and the next...

GORSE: Hopelessness. When a patient is fed up with a long treatment of a chronic disease and has been either told by the doctors that his disease is incurable or has himself comet to the same conclusion, he becomes thoroughly depressed. Although he may continue with some treatment on the persuasion of some well-wishers, he himself is dejected, and has lost all hope to recover his health.

HEATHER: Self-centered. Always concerned with his own problems. Always talking of his own ailments. Has no time to listen to others. Makes a nuisance of himself, forcing others to listen to his constant prattle. Is shunned by friends. Becomes desperate when left alone without any listener.

HOLLY: Hatred, jealousy, envy, distrust, the very anti-thesis of LOVE. Hatred and distrust cause the greatest distress and unhappiness in man’s life. Not only man, but even a child becomes jealous of his younger brother or sister when he has to share his parent’s love with him—the love which was exclusively showered on him previously. Even a pet dog in the family shows resentment when a new baby arrives in the family.

the next three are...

CRAB APPLE: Wants to throw away anything which is unclean, which is undesirable. Wants to dispossess himself of any unclean thought, any unpleasant sensation and even any ugly part of his body.

ELM: ‘Weak moments in the live of the strong’. Even the most capable and efficient people holding most responsible position in the society are sometimes so weighed down by the amount of work they are supposed to accomplish, that they feel exhausted and a feeling of inadequacy assails them.

GENTIAN: Pessimism, Depression, Doubt, Lack of Faith, Always looks at the dark side of the case. Always calls a half bottle empty, never calls it half full. Depression from a known cause. A set-back during convalescence causes undue discouragement.