None of us, I imagine, ever truly wants to be dependent on another. What healing, however, when we sense that even though I may need your physical intervention, what I want most is the healing that only your love can bring when I am cherished, wanted, even loved.

Be mindful of your own thoughts and expectations. Patients in a state of hyper-alertness, will search for and register cues from their physicians.

“There is mounting scientific evidence that the doctor-patient relationship is an important factor in why patients get better.” – Eve Henry

Recently, I spent three weeks, living an uninvited guest, at Mount Sinai Hospital. My mission was to be a caregiver for my brother John who has a cancerous tumor that tragically and painfully, is ravaging his body.

Love asks not for partial commitment but for total commitment, no holding back, without expectation of reward, response, or return. The moment I attach any of that to my gift of Love, the gift is diminshed and in the end so am I.

Whichever way love goes, That way becomes my faith, The source of beauty, and a light Of sacredness over everything.    –Ibn Arabi, Sufi mystic (1165-1240)    What do these four lines say to you about love? Do you agree that love leads us to faith or is it the other way around?    Have…