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“March roses shall burn me in the land where I was first born. / Pomegranate blossoms will conceive of me, / and I will be born from it once more.”
― Almond Blossoms and Beyond
― Almond Blossoms and Beyond
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.”
― Wild Geese
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.”
― Wild Geese
“I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
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Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more
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Medical Humanism: in which the goal is not just eradicating disease but effectively communicating, empathizing and showing compassion for patients. ...more
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