The Physician

The world needs physicians, not doctors, and counselors, not psychiatrists. Physicians heal the root problem, while doctors merely bandage the symptoms. Counselors resolve the mind, while psychiatrists simply numb its pain. Now pain killers are valuable in many ways, but they themselves are not the solutions to our problems. To many people trying to escape reality, only to realize that the fight only complicates and creates further problems.

The foundation of healing is identifying root causes and resolving them and ultimately, each individual solely holds that responsibility for oneself. Just as the body is the best physician for its physical wounds, the mind is the best physician for its mental/spiritual wounds. But unlike the body, the mind must choose whether to live or to die, to hope or to fear, to love or to hate, to be at peace or at anger. Thus the physician of choice is self, and salvation comes through this embrace of life: hope, love, and peace.