Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain.

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science.

Medicine is as close to love as it is to science, and its relationships matter even at the edge of life itself.