“Through my mother's disease I came to know her as Spirit. The name of her disease hardly matters—no more than the name of the disease of your loved one. What matters is seeing through the disease to the sufferer's very essence, to their Soul.”

— John Diamond (doctor)

Source: The Veneration of Life: Through the Disease to the Soul (1999), p. 9

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