§1. The physician’s high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is termed.
~ Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of Medicine
"Hahnemann starts off by talking about the physician, which is all of you, and me, and what we’re doing as a physician. He talks about it being a high mission and the only mission. It’s talking about what is your intention as a physician, what are you trying to do. That’s something everybody needs to think about, because here he says the physician’s only mission is to cure the sick. It means that there needs to be no other personal motivation involved in why you’re becoming a homeopath. It’s only to do with curing the sick. It’s not for any benefit to you. It’s very important to think about that and to think about whether you have a mixed agenda in coming to homeopathy, whether you want something out of it for yourself, because, ultimately, there is nothing in it for you. If you want satisfaction, I’m sure there are easier ways of getting it.
"The desire to cure people, to treat the sick, comes from a deep longing in a person, and it’s very important that you remain true to that, and don’t become distracted in your work by anything else. And there are many distractions—power, money, all sorts of things, success, finding the remedy and being renowned—all these things can come in as distractions and corrupt us from the true longing, which is probably what motivates everybody in the first place to want to do this sort of work. You need to remain true to your own center. That’s what paragraph 1 is about—it’s remaining true to your own center."
~ Jo Daly, Pacific Academy of Homeopathic Medicine, October 1992
1st lecture on homeopathic philosophy to class of 1995