I was so numb that I didn't know that I was numb. Here, for the first time, I have found silence - silence in the woods, silence in the yoga. I didn't know I needed silence, I didn't know how to get silence, so I made myself numb instead. This man might have been talking for the entire culture. All of us are numb because we do not allow silence.
Silence is a quality of the yin.
Because the medical system does not yet understand the full range of human needs it wounds people - both doctors and patients. It does not recognize the full range of human strengths, either. What is needed for the healing of the medical system is what is needed for the healing of the culture. Because we are wounded in the same way as our institutions, when you are trained by an institution your wounds increase. In our training we are actually rewarded for our woundedness and punished for our wholeness.