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Dylan Griswold
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“But that last clinic appointment, that last time I saw Katie, I could look at her and see heaven. I don’t ask you to understand or even believe me, but I could see it. Just as clear as I can see Death. I saw heaven through Katie. It’s not that I think I see it; I know I see it, just as I see heaven in the eyes of my bratty kid or any of my other hundreds of patients. I know there’s value. I know there’s love. I know that there’s a loving God welcoming Katie into heaven. I could see it. I can’t explain it. I can’t begin to ease the stabbing hurt in Katie’s family. I won’t even try. But there is heaven.”
― Nothing Good Happens at … the Baby Hospital: The Strange, Silly World of Pediatric Brain Surgery
― Nothing Good Happens at … the Baby Hospital: The Strange, Silly World of Pediatric Brain Surgery
“We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it.”
― Breathing Underwater
― Breathing Underwater
“The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now to where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition, for all you do is see for the first time what you have always been looking at. Who ever heard of a path that brings you to yourself or a method that makes you what you have always been? Spirituality, after all, is only a matter of becoming what you really are.”
― Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations
― Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations
“The reason we do anything one more time is because the last time did not really satisfy us deeply. As English poet W.H. Auden put it in “Apropos of Many Things”: “We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.”
― Breathing Underwater
― Breathing Underwater
“She continued, “I had an ultrasound when I was about twenty weeks pregnant, and they found the spina bifida and hydrocephalus. I saw a bunch of doctors. Every single one of them told me all the things that were wrong with my daughter. Some people told me to abort her—you know—my child. All of these doctors told me all the problems we were going to have. “Then she was born and the doctors told me about the lesion on her back and the size of her head. She was going to be taken to the Baby Hospital away from me, and she needed surgery. All I could think about was everything wrong with her and maybe I’d made a mistake keeping her. “Then Thomas came into my room. Do you know what he said? He said, ‘What a beautiful baby!’” She paused. “No one else had called her a baby.”
― Nothing Good Happens at … the Baby Hospital: The Strange, Silly World of Pediatric Brain Surgery
― Nothing Good Happens at … the Baby Hospital: The Strange, Silly World of Pediatric Brain Surgery
Dylan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Dylan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
960 books
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103 books
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476 books
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669 books
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1,012 books
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671 books
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1,811 books
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Biography, Book Club, Christian, Classics, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Self help, Spirituality, and War
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