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“Some people say doctors should keep their professional lives separate from their personal lives. Whoever says so either never practiced medicine or forgets what it’s like. Doctors don’t live two separate lives. It all comes together, whether we think that’s a good idea or not.”
― One Doctor: Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine
― One Doctor: Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine
“You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“The word “depressed” is spoken phonetically as “deep rest”. We can view depression not as a mental illness, but on a deeper level, as a profound, and very misunderstood, state of deep rest, entered into when we are completely exhausted by the weight of our own identity.”
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“Reality exists as it is. The words we use to explain our understanding of it are always pale reflections of the truth we are attempting to convey and of our own understanding of that truth.”
― Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
― Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
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