Quotes About Healing

The healing hero, therefore, is the one who finds some creative way out, a way not already known, and does not follow a pattern. Ordinary sick people follow ordinary patterns, but the shaman cannot be cured by the usual methods of healing. He has to find the unique way, the only way that applies to him. The creative personality who can do that then becomes a healer and is recognized as such by his colleagues.

A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

You don't feel like you're hurting yourself when you're cutting. You feel like this is the only way to take care of yourself.

The study of self-injury makes clear that the mind and body are inextricably linked, each feedings from the other's nourishment or starving from the other's neglect. The body is, indeed, the temple of the soul. Cutters are living proof that when the body is ravaged, the soul cries out. And when the soul is trampled upon, the body bleeds.

There are generous and inventive ways to enjoy words and to reclaim them as instruments of love, healing, and peace. All of us who speak, read, write, and listen to each other have opportunities to do that and to foster the kinds of community that come from shared stories and surprising sentences.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.

Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.

I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.

There are buoyant powers of healing at work in the world that do not depend on us, that we need not finance or keep functioning and that are not at our disposal.

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure

Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.

Sometimes, in the deepest moments, there are no words. There is only food.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

All sorrows are less with bread.

Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better.

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

I know that many ailments can be healed with food by nourishing your body instead of taking drugs.

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.