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Sarah Moss

Bodies of Light

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  • b6281743919цитирует3 года назад
    The healers do not have to be whole because wholeness, holiness, are not human qualities. Humanity’s greatest gift is love and not reason – St Paul is not usually among her prophets but this, for the first time, seems true – and Mamma, for all her time in church, does not know this. If she is to be a doctor – as she is to be a doctor – she will be a broken doctor, her own hurt as much part of her practice as her healing. A docto
  • b6281743919цитирует3 года назад
    and not run away to hide.
  • b6281743919цитирует3 года назад
    This, it seems to Ally, is the condition of human agency; our very lives cause harm to others and it is wilful blindness to pretend otherwise. We are all of us, every mortal soul, damaging persons. Our best hope, for salvation and for medicine – the thing, she thinks, that Mamma cannot do – is to own the damage we do. And to live with it
  • b6281743919цитирует3 года назад
    Holy, whole, hale, healthy: Aubrey told her once that these are all the same word. None of those states is the human condition. The healers are not whole.
  • b6281743919цитирует3 года назад
    Edith is right that the purpose of a moral imperative is to justify harm. If it is sometimes necessary to suffer, it must also sometimes be necessary to cause suffering
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