This degree speaks of the dedication of personal skill and energy to the alleviation of suffering.
"Healing through service"
Service to others in their moment of greatest vulnerability represents the highest expression of practical compassion. The nurse embodies the principle that skill without empathy is merely technique, and empathy without skill is mere sentiment. Together they become healing.
Left unexamined, compassionate service performed for validation rather than truth, reducing earth vitality to empty display.
Showing up skillfully for people at their worst is about as useful as love gets.
A cyclical mental process of returning to a thought again and again until clarity crystallizes from confusion. This is the rationalizing mind finding insights that are born in silence after long incubation.
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