"Treat your illness as though it were your only child, with that same mercy and loving-kindness. If it were your child's body, you'd caress it, you'd hold it, you'd do all you could to make it well. But somehow when it's in our own body we wall it off, we send hatred and anger into it. We treat ourselves with so little kindness, so little softness."

Stephen Levine
Conscious Living/Conscious Dying