"Books, like people, are multi-dimensional portals into other worlds -- realms beyond the visual simulation that we co-exist within. To open a book is to pierce the dark veil of 3rd dimensional limitative living and embark towards the ever-present light of immortality." ― C.K. Lee
"To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books." ― Manly P. Hall
"The consideration of man's body has not changed to meet the new conditions of this artificial environment that has replaced his natural one. The result is that of perceptual discord between man and his environment. The effect of this discord is a general deterioration of man's body, the symptoms of which are termed disease." ― Hilton Hotema
“Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.” ― Rudolf Steiner
While this book is devoted to a considera- tion of the subject of Breathing and Chest Development from the standpoint of Western Science, accepted physiological facts and practical methods, and divested of mysticism, occultism, or any other kind of "ism' or strange philosophy, nevertheless candor com- pels us to recognize and acknowledge the debt we owe to the Oriental investigators of the past in the direction of the discovery of the vital importance of breathing, and the rela- tion thereof to all the functions of the physi- cal life of the individual.
