Top 49 Shem's Quotes
#1. The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.
Baal Shem Tov
#3. The thing is," said Gilheeny, "is that we live in constant fear of our lives. It makes the blood pressure elevate like an Arabian geyser, and the tension headaches we get would knock the balls off a bull with the twist in the maxillary sinuses themselves.
Samuel Shem
#4. It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society
Samuel Shem
#5. To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got.
Samuel Shem
#6. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.
Baal Shem Tov
#7. You know what they say: It's better to have dyspareuned than never to have pareuned at all.
Samuel Shem
#8. From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
Baal Shem Tov
#9. If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.
Baal Shem Tov
#10. Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.
Samuel Shem
#11. Life's like a penis; When it's soft you can't beat it; When it's hard you get screwed. - The Fat Man, Medical Resident in The House of God
Samuel Shem
#12. Replete is the world with a spiritual radiance, replete with sublime and marvelous secrets. But a small hand held against the eye hides it all," said the Baal Shem.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#13. A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra
Samuel Shem
#14. It ain't easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that their body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they're on the verge of death all the time
Samuel Shem
#15. We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make
sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.
Baal Shem Tov
#16. Behind everyday reality, there is a deeper reality so cruel that it condemns to death those who crime is no greater than the pursuit of their own curiosity.
("Shem-El-Nessim: An Inspiration In Perfume")
Chris Bell
#17. The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day
Baal Shem Tov
#18. Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
Baal Shem Tov
#20. The patient is the one with the disease
Samuel Shem
#21. Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.
Baal Shem Tov
#22. The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
Baal Shem Tov
#23. Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
Baal Shem Tov
#24. A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.
Baal Shem Tov
#25. Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."
Baal Shem Tov
#26. Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
Baal Shem Tov
#27. Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
Baal Shem Tov
#28. This wine makes me feel like I'm bathed in amnion, breathless, fed by the motherbloodflow in the umbilical vein, fetal, slippery and tumbling over and over in the warmth of the beating womb, warm amnion, warmnion.
Samuel Shem
#29. At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse
Samuel Shem
#30. Ha-shem to do His dirty work, namely, punishing sin. It can be read that Mastema, not Adonai,
J.A. Konrath
#31. Law XIII. THE DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH NOTHING AS POSSIBLE
Samuel Shem
#32. I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases. With me, they still feel part of the human race.
Samuel Shem
#33. Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head.
Samuel Shem
#34. To look forward to whatever flowed through the doors. To save a life? Two lives? I felt proud. The burden of treating the intractable, untreatable, unplaceable, unwanted, had been replaced by the fantasy of being a real doctor, dealing with real disease.
Samuel Shem
#35. Basch: So why don't you ask her out?
The Runt: I'm scared she wouldn't like me and say no.
-So what? What have you got to lose?
-The possibility -if she says no- that she might have said yes. Whatever I do, I don't want to lose that possibility.
Samuel Shem
#36. I am going out one door, and shall go through another.
Baal Shem Tov
#38. There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.
Samuel Shem
#39. To pull a friend out of the mire, don't hesitate to get dirty.
Baal Shem Tov
#40. Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.
Baal Shem Tov
#41. I'm telling you that the cure is the disease. The main source of the illness in this world is the doctor's own illness; his compulsion to try to cure and his fraudulent belief that he can.
Samuel Shem
#43. For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.
Baal Shem Tov
#44. When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.
Baal Shem Tov
#45. People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.
Baal Shem Tov
#47. There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.
Baal Shem Tov
#49. I realized with alarm that I hadn't learned how to save anyone at all, not Dr. Sanders or Lazarus or Jimmy or Saul or Anna O., and that what I was thrilled about was learning how to save myself.
Samuel Shem
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