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Petty thoughts infiltrate his mind like a fungus. They will eventually rot his body.
Irvin D. Yalom • When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
This book prefers to connect pathology with exceptionality, exchanging the term “abnormal” for “extraordinary” and letting the extraordinary be the vision against which our ordinary lives are examined.
James Hillman • The Soul's Code
As a doctor, I was an agent, a cause; as a patient, I was merely something to which things happened.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Lost in a featureless wasteland of my own mortality, and finding no traction in the reams of scientific studies, intracellular molecular pathways, and endless curves of survival statistics, I began reading literature again: Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward, B. S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates, Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich, Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Woolf, Kafka, Mo
... See morePaul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
In his book, Unconditional Life, Dr. Deepak Chopra cites the example of two people riding on the same roller coaster. The rider who is terrified creates stress hormones, which over time will cause his immune system to weaken. The rider who is exhilarated by the roller coaster ride produces a flood of chemicals, among them interferon and interleukin
... See moreJudith Acosta LISW CCH, Judith Prager PhD • The Worst Is Over
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
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