From Sun to Sun Quotes

“As Stephen Levine says, “When your fear touches someone’s pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion.”
― Nina Angela McKissock, From Sun to Sun: A Hospice Nurse Reflects on the Art of Dying

“In this country, we think of dying primarily as a medical event. It’s much more than that. It’s about relationships: to ourselves, those we may be caring for, or those caring for us. Caring for the dying can be an intense, intimate, and deeply enlivening experience. Death can be an extraordinary mirror through which we see ourselves.”
― Nina Angela McKissock, From Sun to Sun: A Hospice Nurse Reflects on the Art of Dying

“I know my role is to walk toward death with those who are dying. But the lesson that keeps repeating itself is this: in all its odd forms, love always wins over fear.”
― Nina Angela McKissock, From Sun to Sun: A Hospice Nurse Reflects on the Art of Dying