"Tension (stress) is a form of disease...The sick are aware only of their private pains and miseries...[it] is more or less completely independent of time and place... [and] the disease [has] arisen under all cultural conditions"
"In every human culture certain procedures for achieving temporary self-transcendence, and thereby relieving tension, have been developed and systematically employed... There are the chemical methods, the musical and gymnastic methods... the influence of crowds, the various religious methods and, finally ...the yogas and spiritual exercises of Oriental and Western tradition"