Dylan Griswold
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“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
“Suppose somebody showed us a way whereby we would truly love one another, and be at peace, be at love. Can you think of anything more practical than that? But, instead, you have people thinking that big business is more practical, that politics is more practical, that science is more practical. What’s the earthly use of putting a man on the moon when we cannot live on the earth?”
― Awareness
― Awareness
“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
“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
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