I didn't appreciate life. My life was a mess. Survivor Reflections from Patrick Quillin Beating Cancer With Nutrition Cancer is the solution, not the problem. I knew cancer was a disease of deep resentment that has been held for a long time. I had a lot of work to do.
Illness permits the person to say no.
For it is this which destroys our body more than any other cause. 1402 A.D. Healing requires an environment imbued with life-affirming spirit and the dynamics of hope. We often find it easier to resent and suffer in the role of victim than to love, forgive, accept and find inner peace. The individual whose hopes for his own full rich life are sufficiently high to enable him to deal with temporary setbacks appears to be most resistant to cancer. The fundamental problem most patients face is an inability to love themselves.