Christopher Kijowski

“Mortality teaches clinicians that there is more to doctoring than diagnosing and treating injuries and diseases, more even than saving lives. Mastery of physiological, pathological, and pharmacological knowledge and expertise is essential, but insufficient. Science only becomes medicine when it is applied with caring intention to promote the well-being of people — mortal people.”
― Karen Speerstra, The Divine Art of Dying: How to Live Well While Dying

“We mourn with those who mourn; weep with those in tears. John Ruusbroec, the fourteenth-century Dutch mystic, said “compassion is a wounding of the heart which love extends to all without distinction.” At the end of life, as at the beginning of life, we need communities of compassion to hold our pain.”
― Karen Speerstra, The Divine Art of Dying: How to Live Well While Dying

“If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature....”
― John Burroughs

“Bring me the sunset in a cup.”
― Emily Dickinson