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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

Abraham Verghese

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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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Admit Certainly Doctor Intent Myself One Subconsciously World Young
Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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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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Ecstasy Happened Intrusion Ordinary Sacred Sudden
Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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