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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.

Abraham Verghese

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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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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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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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