A Quote by Genesis P-Orridge

To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.

Genesis P-Orridge

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Genesis P-Orridge
English - Musician
Born: February 22, 1950

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

William Osler

When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.

Charles R. Swindoll

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

Thomas Merton

Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved

Michael Harner

The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice.

Judy Grahn

The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.

Harriot Kezia Hunt

A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

Constantin Stanislavski

Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.

John Shelby Spong

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

Francis Collins

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

Barbara Brown Taylor

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

Robert A. Heinlein

We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.

Alan Watts

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

Samuel Hahnemann

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

Plato

Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.

Florence Nightingale

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

Confucius

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