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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “

Abraham Verghese

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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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