"If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?"

-- Joan Halifax

#Health Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”
“Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.”
“Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.”
“To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'”

Source : Rebecca McClanahan (2001). “Write Your Heart Out”, Writer's Digest Books
“The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.”
“Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.”
“The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and lightâ€¦.Itâ€™s a mistake to think itâ€™s the small things we control and not the large, itâ€™s the other way around! We canâ€™t stop the small accident, the tiny detail that conspires into fate: the extra moment you run back for something forgotten, a moment that saves you from an accident â€“ or causes one. But we can assert the largest order, the large human values daily, the only order large enough to see.”
“Happiness lies, first of all, in health.”

Source : Lotus-Eating Ch. 4

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