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The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it "depression" than calling it "loneliness."
I have often found that mental patients who are given love, creativity, and community find the peace that they are reaching out for.
House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998)
Imagination is an infinite resource that cannot be diminished by overuse or underuse.
House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998)
I dove into the ocean of gratitude and never found the shore.
Take a close look at the part that "love" plays in your life. Make an inventory of love: people, things, ideas, experiences. Try to live your gratitude.
House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998)
People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close. As a clown I can do things that people are too frightened of Love to allow you to do.
The loudest cry of patients is for compassion and attention, which is a call for time.
Anyone can do it — BE RADIANT! Make the decision. I want to be an agent of change to a loving world — so I will be radiant.
I've tacked up a great statement by Melville, which I don't know by heart, but it's the equivalent of, "If you haven't failed, you haven't tried."
Any can do it — BE RADIANT! Make the decision. I want to be an agent of change to a loving world — so I will be radiant.
I decided that I would only be six qualities: happy, funny, loving, cooperative, creative and thoughtful.
Welcome to my library! Ever since my high school days, books and magazines have been to my mind what friends are in the flesh. Each and every one of these books and articles-- a fraction of the 12,000 volumes that I share my house with-- has contributed to expanding my dream.
House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998)
If I plant the idea that you really are a responsible person, that your life and life around you is affected by you, even though you're only one person, life can become very exciting.
People are not their diseases....without touching on the quality of a person's life, their loves, concerns, and fears, we ignore a gigantic area of resource and disease.
I think that the loss of the house call has been the biggest blow to the art of medicine in this century. Not only has the patient lost this precious attention, but the physician has not found a replacement for the lost intimacy.
House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998)
I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.