“Sometimes the same emotion that breaks your heart is the very one that will heal it…”
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Source: 2000s, At First Sight (2005)
“The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too.”
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Ba Jin
A Battle For Life (July 1958)
Context: The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too. It was this chief surgeon who first volunteered to offer his skin when grafting began.
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Source: Art for Healing: Guided Painting Then and Now (2011), p. 39
