“As Sicknes is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes, is solitude...Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itselfe.
-DONNE”
― Awakenings
-DONNE”
― Awakenings
“from such abysses, from such severe sickness, one returns newborn, having shed one's skin … with merrier senses, with a second dangerous innocence in joy, more childlike and yet a hundred times subtler than one has ever been before.”
― Awakenings
― Awakenings
“They are not saviours, and it is unfair to expect them to be. It’s not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.”
― Making India Awesome: New Essays and Columns
― Making India Awesome: New Essays and Columns
“One must drop all presuppositions and dogmas and rules - for there only lead to stalemate or disaster; one must cease to regard all patients as replicas, and honor each one with individual reactions and propensities; and, in this way, with the patient as one's equal, one's co-explorer, not one's puppet, one may find therapeutic ways which are better than other ways, tactics which can be modified as occasion requires.”
― Awakenings
― Awakenings
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