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24 May 2012 at 11:02pm
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The Key to Beauty and Acceptance Is You
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When We Think Other People Are Better Than Us
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23 May 2012 at 8:48pm
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Tiny Wisdom: The Heart in Our Homes
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What We Really Need to Be Happy
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Be a Master of Where You Are Now
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20 May 2012 at 10:01pm
by Lori Deschene ?It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.? ~John Bulwer If there?s one thing we all want, it?s to feel loved. We want to feel deeply connected ...
How to Love Without Losing Yourself
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!
Charles Dickens
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I
have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I
have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless
cheerfulness.
Charles Dickens
Do all the good you can, and make as little fuss about it as possible.
Charles Dickens
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days,
recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his
own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens
I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to
come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding school
where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.
Charles Dickens
I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant
time; a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely, and so I say, God
bless Christmas!
Charles Dickens
It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive
possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim
observed, God Bless Us, Every One!
Charles Dickens
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic
ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments,
affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and
make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.
Charles Dickens

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# Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway
across the globe, but here, in our own lives.
Deepak Chopra
# Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a
dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine.
Deepak Chopra
# When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you
connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.
Deepak Chopra
# Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your
destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
Deepak Chopra
# If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the
world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.
Deepak Chopra Quote
# You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we
are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
Deepak Chopra Quote
# If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal
dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and
the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very
important to be aware of them every time they come up.
Deepak Chopra Quote
# The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves
nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their
love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth
at the heart of the universe.
Deepak Chopra Quote
# Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
Deepak Chopra Quote
# When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you
connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.
Deepak Chopra Quote
# The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
Deepak Chopra Quote

A Sample List of Proverbs
"The eyes are the window to the soul."
"When life gives you scraps make quilts."
"It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it."
"Caveat emptor Let the buyer beware."
"The heart that loves is always young."
"He who lives by the sword dies by the sword."
"Desperate times call for desperate measures."
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
"A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home."
"A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar."
"A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years."
"A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind."
"Call on God, but row away from the rocks."
"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently."
"Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true."
"No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back."
"It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps."
"Love makes time pass; time makes love pass."
"Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places."
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
"You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you." "Faith is like a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark."
"It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life."
"May your every wish be granted."
"Get the coffin ready and the man won't die."

End of the List of Proverbs

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The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of
education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have
succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an
opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the
end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Subjective Experience and Medical Practice
by Bishop, J. P.
5 May 2012 at 8:09am
Phenomenology as a Resource for Patients
by Carel, H.
5 May 2012 at 8:09am

Patient support tools have drawn on a variety of disciplines, including psychotherapy, social psychology, and social care. One discipline that has not so far been used to support patients is philosophy. This paper proposes that a particular philosophical approach, phenomenology, could prove useful for patients, giving them tools to reflect on and expand their understanding of their illness. I present a framework for a resource that could help patients to philosophically examine their illness, its impact on their life, and its meaning. I explain the need for such a resource, provide philosophical grounding for it, and outline the epistemic and existential gains philosophy offers. Illness often begins as an intrusion on one’s life but with time becomes a way of being. I argue that this transition impacts on core human features such as the experience of space and time, human abilities, and adaptability. It therefore requires philosophical analysis and response. The paper uses ideas from Husserl and Merleau-Ponty to present such a response in the form of a phenomenological toolkit for patients. The toolkit includes viewing illness as a form of phenomenological reduction, thematizing illness, and examining illness as altering the ill person’s being in the world. I suggest that this toolkit could be offered to patients as a workshop, using phenomenological concepts, texts, and film clips to reflect on illness. I conclude by arguing that examining illness as a limit case of embodied existence deepens our understanding of phenomenology.

Varieties of Temporal Experience in Depression
by Ratcliffe, M.
5 May 2012 at 8:09am

People with depression often report alterations in their experience of time, a common complaint being that time has slowed down or stopped. In this paper, I argue that depression can involve a range of qualitatively different changes in the structure of temporal experience, some of which I proceed to describe. In addition, I suggest that current diagnostic categories such as "major depression" are insensitive to the differences between these changes. I conclude by briefly considering whether the kinds of temporal experience associated with depression are specific to depression.

Organ Transplantation and Personal Identity: How Does Loss and Change of Orga...
by Svenaeus, F.
5 May 2012 at 8:09am

In this paper, changes in identity and selfhood experienced through organ transplantation are analyzed from a phenomenological point of view. The chief examples are heart and face transplants. Similarities and differences between the examples are fleshed out by way of identifying three layers of selfhood in which the procedures have effects: embodied selfhood, self-reflection, and social-narrative identity. Organ transplantation is tied to processes of alienation in the three layers of selfhood, first and foremost a bodily alienation experienced through illness or injury and in going through and recovering from the operation. However, in cases in which the organ in question is taken to harbor the identity of another person, because of its symbolic qualities (the heart) or its expressive qualities (the face), the alienation process may also involve the otherness of another person making itself, at least imaginatively, known.

Liars, Medicine, and Compassion
by Ekstrom, L. W.
5 May 2012 at 8:09am

This paper defends an account of compassion and argues for the centrality of compassion to the proper practice of medicine. The argument proceeds by showing that failures of compassion can lead to poor medical treatment and disastrous outcomes. Several case studies are discussed, exemplifying the difference between compassionate and noncompassionate responses to patients seeking help. Arguments are offered in support of approaching reports of persistent pain with a trusting attitude, rather than distrust or skepticism. The article concludes by suggesting educational improvements to encourage compassion.

Bioethics, Cultural Differences and the Problem of Moral Disagreements in End...
by Johnstone, M.-J.
5 May 2012 at 8:09am

Cultural differences in end-of-life care and the moral disagreements these sometimes give rise to have been well documented. Even so, cultural considerations relevant to end-of-life care remain poorly understood, poorly guided, and poorly resourced in health care domains. Although there has been a strong emphasis in recent years on making policy commitments to patient-centred care and respecting patient choices, persons whose minority cultural worldviews do not fit with the worldviews supported by the conventional principles of western bioethics face a perpetual struggle in getting their care needs met in a meaningful, safe, and healing way. In this essay, attention is given to exploring why cultural differences exist, why they matter, and how health care providers should treat them in order to reduce the incidence and impact of otherwise preventable harmful moral outcomes in end-of-life care. In addressing these questions, a novel application of the renowned terror management theory will be made.

Responsibly Managing Uncertainties In Clinical Ethics
by McCullough, L. B.
26 Jan 2012 at 8:20pm

It is well-recognized that uncertainty is an endemic feature and limitation of clinical judgment and practice that cannot be eliminated in many cases. Among the tasks of clinical ethics is the responsible management of uncertainties, first articulated in E. Haavi Morreim’s very nice concept of the "moral management of medical uncertainty." The papers in the 2012 Clinical Ethics issue of the Journal provide philosophically innovative and clinically applicable accounts of the varieties of uncertainty in clinical medicine and therefore in clinical ethics: epistemic uncertainty, metaphysical uncertainty, and relational uncertainty.

Managing Scientific Uncertainty in Medical Decision Making: The Case of the A...
by Martinez, J. M.
26 Jan 2012 at 8:20pm

This article explores the question of how scientific uncertainty can be managed in medical decision making using the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices as a case study. It concludes that where a high degree of technical consensus exists about the evidence and data, decision makers act according to a clear decision rule. If a high degree of technical consensus does not exist and uncertainty abounds, the decision will be based on a variety of criteria, including readily available resources, decision-process constraints, and the available knowledge base, among other things. Decision makers employ a variety of heuristic devices and techniques, thereby employing a pragmatic approach to uncertainty in medical decision making. The article concludes with recommendations for managing scientific uncertainty in medical decision making.

Epistemic Humility and Medical Practice: Translating Epistemic Categories int...
by Schwab, A.
26 Jan 2012 at 8:20pm

Physicians and other medical practitioners make untold numbers of judgments about patient care on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. These judgments fall along a number of spectrums, from the mundane to the tragic, from the obvious to the challenging. Under the rubric of evidence-based medicine, these judgments will be informed by the robust conclusions of medical research. In the ideal circumstance, medical research makes the best decision obvious to the trained professional. Even when practice approximates this ideal, it does so unevenly. Judgments in medical practice are always accompanied by uncertainty, and this uncertainty is a fickle companion—constant in its presence but inconstant in its expression. This feature of medical judgments gives rise to the moral responsibility of medical practitioners to be epistemically humble. This requires the recognition and communication of the uncertainty that accompanies their judgment as well as a commitment to avoiding intuitive innovations.

Abortion and the Argument from Potential: What We Owe to the Ones Who Might E...
by Giubilini, A.
26 Jan 2012 at 8:20pm

I challenge the idea that the argument from potential (AFP) represents a valid moral objection to abortion. I consider the form of AFP that was defended by Hare, which holds that abortion is against the interests of the potential person who is prevented from existing. My reply is that AFP, though not unsound by itself, does not apply to the issue of abortion. The reason is that AFP only works in the cases of so-called same number and same people choices, but it falsely presupposes that abortion is such a kind of choice. This refutation of AFP implies that (1) abortion is not only morally permissible but sometimes even morally mandatory and (2) abortion is morally permissible even when the potential person’s life is foreseen to be worth living.

Advance Directives and Personal Identity: What Is the Problem?
by Furberg, E.
26 Jan 2012 at 8:20pm

The personal identity problem expresses the worry that due to disrupted psychological continuity, one person’s advance directive could be used to determine the care of a different person. Even ethicists, who strongly question the possibility of the scenario depicted by the proponents of the personal identity problem, often consider it to be a very potent objection to the use of advance directives. Aiming to question this assumption, I, in this paper, discuss the personal identity problem’s relevance to the moral force of advance directives. By putting the personal identity argument in relation to two different normative frameworks, I aim to show that whether or not the personal identity problem is relevant to the moral force of advance directives, and further, in what way it is relevant, depends entirely on what normative reasons we have for respecting advance directives in the first place.

The Noncompliant Patient: A Kantian and Levinasian Response
by Burcher, P.
26 Jan 2012 at 8:20pm

When a patient fails to follow the advice or prescription of a physician, she is termed to be "noncompliant" by the medical community. The medical community’s response to and understanding of patient noncompliance fails to acknowledge noncompliance as either a relational failure between physician and patient or as a patient choice. I offer an analysis of Immanuel Kant and Emmanuel Levinas that refocuses the issue of noncompliance by examining the physician role, the doctor–patient relationship, and the nature of responsibility.

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