I drink in his wholeness, the soudness of his body and mind. It runs through me like the morphling they give me in the hospital, dulling the pain of the last weeks.
When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.
The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.
The most important medicine is tender love and care.
If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)
I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.
One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.
Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.
