Posts Tagged ‘surgery’

Changing the Mind’s Experience of Pain: The Witness of Reynolds Price

Written by john on September 17th, 2009
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When I think of recovery from a terrible illness, I think of Reynolds Price. His beautiful memoir, A Whole New Life, records the powerful experience of his mental and spiritual healing from the excruciating pain of a crippling illness. However, there could never be recovery from the physical [...]

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Days of Anxiety – 2

Written by john on December 31st, 2008
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George Eliot wrote these lines in Middlemarch about 135 years ago:

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side [...]

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