#gnosis

I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis. ↗

— Elaine Paige

#awareness #become #been #diagnosis #disease

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#burden #burdened #diagnosis #enough #secrecy

It was part of the reason I almost didn't go public with my diagnosis - I was embarrassed. I felt, 'Oh, I've always talked about exercising. And I got cancer.' And then I realized it's a great example of showing that cancer can hit anyone at any time. ↗

— Robin Roberts

#almost #always #any #anyone #cancer

And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis. ↗

— Michael Schiavo

#diagnosis #doctor #i #look #make

After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level. ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#cancer #diagnosis #i #level #new

I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless. ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#attacked #cancer #competing #diagnosis #fearless

People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward. ↗

— Greg Louganis

#done #even #forward #hiv #line

Ah, my young lad, powerful lord of awareness, you will not be freed merely by my explaining and your hearing such things. Examine and analyze the fundamental nature (ngang-tsul [ངང་ ཙུལ་]) of what I have set forth, so that direct experience is elicited from the depths of your being, and stabilize your ongoing understanding and awareness. ↗

— Dudjom Lingpa

#gnosis #hungchenkara #experience

It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work. ↗

— Lon Milo DuQuette

#magick #perfectionism #practice #procrastination #procrastination

... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori. ↗

— Jerome Groopman

#prognosis #death