Our task is to recognize that we are always on sacred ground, that there is no split between the sacred and secular. That the living god is dancing on our back. Life is a spiritual practice. Health care, which serves life, is a spiritual practice. Disease is a spiritual path, too.
Much illness is caused by the loss of the soul.
Many, many people live lives that are empty. This emptiness is caused, in some part, by living without meaning, or with meaning that is much too small, too trivial, or too material for the needs of a human being. What happened, I think, is that we entered into a culture that devalued the yin, or the feminine principle. We lost a way of seeing. The yin is a way of seeing, a way of understanding the world, a way of formulating solutions, and a very powerful way of acting.