For these great gifts, we owe our lives, a debt we can never repay, because it is a debt we continue to incur every day of our lives. Even if your husband or wife leaves you, even if you lose your job, even if you must declare bankruptcy, even if your friends desert you, even if others think you are crazy, do not stop being grateful for all that happens to you. Macrobiotics can help you see this positive side to life. Healthy people can always see the bright, positive side to whatever happens. Unhealthy people have a harder time doing this.
Forest fires appear to ravage what took years to build.
Yet within a few years, life springs back with more vigor than existed before. Life and death, sickness and health, freedom and slavery define each other. As Herman Melville wrote, Nothing exists except by contrast . This is called Yin and Yang by ancient Chinese philosophy. Deep study of Macrobiotics enables you to see the interplay of Yin and Yang everywhere.