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“Love is the only thing that doubles every time it’s given,” said Albert Schweitzer.
“Every pathological disturbance, every therapeutic effect, finds its ultimate explanation only when it’s possible to designate the specific living cellular elements involved.”
― The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
― The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
“In truth, though millions have come and gone before us, no one knows how to live or how to make sense of the arduous journey of being alive. It only gets easy when we care for each other and dare to share what we see and perceive in the midst of beauty or pain.”
― You Don't Have to Do It Alone: The Power of Friendship
― You Don't Have to Do It Alone: The Power of Friendship
“listening that introduced me to the invisible cord that runs through all human beings, only felt when we dare to open our hearts to each other.”
― You Don't Have to Do It Alone: The Power of Friendship
― You Don't Have to Do It Alone: The Power of Friendship
“Rabbi Yeruham Levovitz (1873–1936): “Woe to a person who is unaware of their shortcomings, because they will not know what to work on. But even greater woe to a person who is unaware of their virtues, because they don’t even know what they have to work with.”
― Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
― Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
“The flowers are large and pure white in color. Seeing them fall evokes the opening to The Tale of the Heike: The sound of the Gion Shōja bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sala flowers reveals the truth that the prosperous must decline. They bloom, and then, in the evening, they fall.”
― The Rainbow
― The Rainbow
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