There is no single road to wellness. Getting well and being well is taking an interlocking network of highways that lead to the one, central junction of wholeness. . . .

I think there's something spiritual about cancer itself, though. It's a challenge to wholeness, to the integration of love. If we take the challenge of cancer, we almost have to face our fragmentation and begin to pull together the scattered pieces of our selves.

John Robert McFarland, Now That I Have Cancer I Am Whole