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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.

Abraham Verghese

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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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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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