Quotes About Healing

When we are unable to shine that natural light within, it burns us from our very core.

Dance your pain, sing your sorrows, because there is nothing else tomorrow.

We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.

Exhale the remnants/Of wounds that steal your freedom./No more prisons. Breathe.

The karmic cycle of abuse is one of the strongest there is, and you must learn to break it with forgiveness and understanding.

The ability to truly forgive is the richest tool of your soul. By releasing the negative energy that has been attached to you by the free will of another, you are unburdened of emotional stress and are breaking a strong karmic cycle.

What energy am I holding on to right now in my belief systems, behavior patterns, feelings, and relationships that is not serving my highest good?

Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude.

The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life's traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the positive.

If haunted by an emotional upheaval in your life, try writing about it or sharing the experience with others. However, if you catch yourself telling exactly the same story over and over in order to get past your distress, rethink your strategy. Try writing or talking about your trauma in a completely different way. How

I wanted to go to Italy because I was sad because my heart was broken, and I thought Italy would make me happy again because everything I would eat there would be delicious.

Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.

I knew that were I ever to emerge from my darkness to seek a more excellent way of living...this must be my first step: to choose to forgive. It was a dangerous and desperate step, but how I yearned for the respite it could afford - if indeed there were any respite to be had. p 233

A scene took shape in my mind of myself weeping over Thomas's blood-soaked, outstretched form, a ridiculous scene in which I urged, "Git up, Person, git up!" Actually, I could not recall the last time I had shed tears. It was something that I had stopped doing many years ago.

Forgiveness started with a decision and then became many choices, a way of life.) Still

being able to let go of hurting does not constitute a lack of compassion.

The more I am spent, ill, a broken pitcher, the more I become an artist, creator, in this revival of the arts.

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

but I tell you now that it's not too late---no matter how deep the wound. (Regarding forgiveness)

One must begin somewhere, sometime, to let go of the bitterness, or be eaten alive and the marrow sucked out.

Give us grace when we hurt each other . . . to recognize and acknowledge our fault, and to seek each other's forgiveness and yours.

There's no other way I can think of to put it—but when you let him move into your life, the garbage moves out. The anger starts to go, and the resentment, and the fear.

Love is a constant act of forgiveness.

is asked of us in our time,' the writer said, 'is that we break open our blocked caves and find each other. Nothing less will heal the anguished spirit, nor release the heart to act in love.