Healing Quotes

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the world the way you see it. No one else can feel your life the way you feel it. Thus it is impossible to ever compare two people because each stands on such different ground. When you compare yourself to others, you are inviting envy into your consciousness; it can be a dangerous and destructive guest.

Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.

The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

The first thing to remember is the dual nature of your mind. The subconscious mind is constantly amenable to the power of suggestion; furthermore the subconscious mind has complete control of the functions, conditions, and sensations of your body. Trust the subconscious mind to heal you. It made your body, and it knows all of its processes and functions. It knows much more than your conscious mind about healing and restoring you to perfect balance.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

To be happy—one must find one's bliss

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.

To heal from the inside out is the key.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live.

Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. "ﾂｦSadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the "ﾂ鷲ealing feeling.'

Literature is the question minus the answer.

You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here. Rilke said, "˜Being here is so much,' and it is uncanny how social reality can deaden and numb us so that the mystical wonder of our lives goes totally unnoticed. We are here. We are wildly and dangerously free.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, "Well, where do I go from here?

Art is a wound turned into light.

I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

My decision not to eat animals anymore was paramount to my growth as a spiritual person. It made me aware of greed and made me more sensitive to cruelty. It made me feel like I was contributing to making the world better and that I was connected to everything around me. I felt like I was part of the whole by respecting every living thing rather than using it and destroying it by living unconsciously. Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

But that's the hardest part of healing.' What?' Realizing there's no one to hate.

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Loving ourselves is the miracle cure we are all looking for.

Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

We were sent into the world alive with beauty. As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage us towards unexpected forms of compassion, healing and creativity.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.

I am never afraid of what I know.

Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.