If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
Abraham VergheseI wanted to write down every bit of wisdom he could impart to me. All sons should write down every word of what their fathers have to say to them. I tried. Why did it take an illness for me to recognize the value of time with him? It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our friends and shake time by the shoulders and tell them, "Seize the day! What matters is this moment!" Most of us can't go back and make restitution. We can't do a thing about our should haves and our could haves
Abraham VergheseHe was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.
Abraham VergheseTo be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
Abraham VergheseTags: self-confidence seductive
I welcomed my slavish existence as a surgical resident, the never-ending work, the cries that kept me in the present, the immersion in blood, pus, and tears -- the fluids in which one dissolved all traces of self. In working myself ragged, I felt integrated...
Abraham VergheseDo they listen?"
He held up a finger. "Every year one does," he said, ginning, "But that one makes it worthwhile. Even Jesus only did twelve. I try to get one a year.
Tags: teaching
I could see that the almost mystical aura of this legendary surgeon -- the single-mindedness, the dedication, the skill -- was mere surface. The surgical persona was something he had crafter to protect himself. But what he had created was a prison. Anytime he strayed from the professional to the personal, he knew what to expect: pain.
Abraham VergheseAll my ghosts had vanished; the retribution that they sought had been exacted. I had nothing more to give, and nothing to fear.
Abraham VergheseHe invited me to a world that wasn't secret, but it was well hidden. You needed a guide. You had to know what to look for, but also how to look. You had to exert yourself to see this world." p 224
Abraham VergheseTags: human-body
What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much and act of conceit as it was an act of heroism" p 61
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