The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

Maybe this was all down to some supernatural effect, such as grace, that flowed through people's lives even if they didn't understand why.

But in truth no single disease leads to the end; the culprit is just the accumulated crumbling of one’s bodily systems while medicine carries out its maintenance measures and patch jobs.

Written By Atul Gawande

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