Quotes About Healing

If you know you have been forgiven, you will forgive and reconcile with others.

How do you even choose what to mend when so much has already been destroyed? How could she think, she asked herself, that she could revive or save anything?

To my grandmother, chagrin was a genuine physical disease. Like a hurt leg or a broken arm. To treat chagrin, you drank tea from leaves that only my grandmother and other old wise women could recognize.

No one will ever love you more than you love your pain," he had replied, his words ringing even louder in the dark. She

I didn't feel guilty about burning my mother's name anymore. I knew my hurt and hers were links in a long chain and if she hurt me, it was because she was hurt, too.

But there's something about music, when you feel it deeply, when you understand it so well, the way Isabelle understands it, there is something about it that makes scary things seem to disappear. If only for a little while -Giselle

I felt broken at the end of the meeting, but a little closer to being free.

Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside us in the absence of an empathetic witness. —Peter Levine, The Unspoken Voice

I have been struck by how families, corporations, and other kinds of institutions are constantly trying to cure their own chronic ills through amputations, "strong medicine," transfusions, and other forms of surgery, only to find that, even when successful for the moment, the excised tumor returns several years later in "cells" that never knew the "cells" that left.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Oui, les mots, ma patrie, les mots, ça console et ça venge. Mais ils ne me rendront pas ma mère.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us now knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

I am wounded and begging, and it's now I who offers herself and clings; people don't hold onto me at all, for I have nothing to give them but myself, myself naked, and it will take a lot of time and tenderness before some resource, some source springs up in me.

Fue un parto», dicen los que no saben o los que creen que el arte real surge del sufrimiento. Para sufrir y pasarlo mal no hay que ser artista; todos más o menos sufren y saben cómo curarse.

El amor propio es una bestia curiosa que puede dormir aun bajo los golpes más crueles; y luego se despierta, en cambio , herido de muerte por un simple rasguño.

The shaman is a self-realized person. She discovers the ways of Spirit through her inner awakening.

As the Lakota Sioux phrase Mitakuye Oyasin—"All my relations"—implies, we're all connected, all in this together. Recovery is reciprocal: heal yourself, heal the world; heal the world, heal yourself.

It's in bringing others the healing gifts we've received that the benefits of these gifts become truly ours.

You would be surprised at the healing power of a simple "I love you" from a dying parent to a child or vice versa. This is not always easy, of course, yet a lifetime of mistakes can be undone through forgiveness even at the end of a life.

Sacred space allows us to enter our quiet inner world where healing takes place.

Rather than resign herself to the fate dictated by her medical history, she has chosen a different, if less probable, outcome—one in which she is a shaman.

soul retrievals to recover parts of myself I had lost to trauma,