“You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.”
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“I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.”
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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
“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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“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
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