"There was a nurse at a retreat that Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and I ran one
year. This nurse had cancer. She had had many, many operations. She was
thirty-eight years old and had four young children. Got the whole
picture? Many cancer surgeries. So she’s in the hospital both as a nurse
and as a patient.
And she said, “knowing my story now, if you came to visit me at the
hospital what would you feel?” Then she wrote on the board what
everybody said. Some people said, ‘I feel angry at God.’ Some said, ‘You
have four young children, it’s unfair.’ Some people said, ‘I feel pity
for you. Some people said, ‘What can I understand about the medical part
to help you?’ And so on. She wrote all this stuff.
She said, “I’d like you to notice one thing, which is what I
experienced.” She said, “Nobody on that list came to be with me.” What I
heard her saying was the symbolic value of her predicament was so
powerful that it captivated the consciousness of everybody that came in
the room. So they came in the room and they saw nurse with four young
children dying of cancer. She couldn’t get out of it. She couldn’t
escape from that role to say, ‘Hey, I’m in here.’ She couldn’t meet
another being."
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