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A woman came for an interview who had exhausted all patience with her husband and announced that she was about to leave him. He was an alcoholic of the worst kind. I asked her to be patient with him, not to leave him, but to give him a further chance. Then I went into the silence for her. An hour or two after her return home, her husband made his first and last attempt at suicide. It failed and he was stopped before he could do any serious harm to his body. Then he fell into a deep sleep for a very long time. He awoke feeling better in every way but still despondent. A few weeks later the desire to drink left him completely and never returned. He was cured. "A miracle has happened," was his wife's comment in a letter.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 5 : The Healing Power of The Overself > # 149