Lessons of Impermanence

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June 14, 2019 a project of ServiceSpace No permanence is ours; we are a wave That flows to fit whatever form it finds. - Hermann Hesse - Lessons of Impermanence "As a palliative care doctor, I spend much of my time face-to-face with pain and suffering, debilitating disease and death. When I began my training, I thought I was comfortable with the idea of mortality, and with the notion that fighting death at all costs wasn't the sole purpose of medicine. But I hadn't expected that the type of medicine I'd chosen to practice would require a strength and perspective that medical training hadn't offered. It was a chance encounter with a sand painting that helped me learn how to doctor patients I knew I would lose." Sunita Puri, author of "That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour" shares more. { read more } Be The Change For more inspiration join this Saturday's Awakin Call with Sunita Puri. More details and RSVP info here. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News One Teacher's Brilliant response to Columbine People Helped You Whether You Knew It Or Not How Trauma Lodges in the Body Pushing Through: A Poem for Grieving Hearts To Keep Company With Oneself The Life of Death 12 Truths I Learned from Life and Writing Mark Nepo: Where To Now? DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 245,147 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More