Quotes About Healing

grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost. Anyway, we got through it somehow.

There is no panacea for this kind of loss. Just know that every day it gets the tiniest bit better-- suddenly one day you can put it in a different perspective.

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.

Despite the fact that our failed developmental history was our parents' "fault," each of us has the ultimate responsibility for our own life. Those of us who have been victimized by indifference, neglect, or abuse are responsible for the rest of our lives. We must work to understand our histories, to separate as best as we can from those who have hurt us, and to pursue gratifying relationships in the future.

If I do not destroy the "family," the "family" will destroy me. —R. D. Laing

She, like so many other patients, was looking backward to her childhood, instead of forward. Not surprisingly, her neglected marriage dissolved.

the religion of Jesus is the good news of God's imminent action to bring in the kingdom of God, and the urgent call to get ready. It is also the extraordinary way in which he lived, the radical nature of his apocalyptic and prophetic ministry, his profound supernatural healing power, and his love for the poor, sinners, Gentiles, women, children, and all who are oppressed.

You wake up and for those few seconds, minutes, you forget; forget you are injured; forget you are finished.

For the first time my prayers were not for me but for everyone else, that all of those things in my notebooks, on all of those tapes, in all of those envelopes and bags in my room, that none of them were true, that the dead were alive and the lost were found, and that all of those lives could be lived anew.

The future, like the past, is written. It cannot be changed, but it can help to heal the wounds of the present.

For the first time my prayers were not for me but for everyone else, that the dead were alive and the lost were found, and that all those lives could be lived anew.

Sometimes the things we do to numb the pain, only creates more pain.

Our protocols utilize intravenous glutathione and hyperbaric oxygen to optimize mitochondrial function as well as foods and supplements that help undo the damage done to the brain by years of stressful living. We find that mitochondria, the mind, and the brain respond extraordinarily quickly to these interventions. Then, through shamanic meditation practices, we can heal from toxic emotions and discover inner peace.

Time does not heal all wounds. Some pain becomes part of who you are.

The crucial point is: by changing ourselves, we change the world. As we become more loving on the inside, healing occurs on the outside. Much like the rising of the sea level lifts all ships, so the radiance of unconditional love within a human heart lifts all of life.

We have the opportunity to choose whether we want to hang on or let go of emotional upsets. We can look at the cost of hanging on to them. Do we want to pay the price? Are we willing to accept the feelings? We can look at the benefits of letting go of them. The choice we make will determine our future. What kind of a future do we want? Will we choose to be healed, or will we become one of the walking wounded?

But that young sapling decided it wasn't going to be destroyed by its wounds. It decided to prove it was bigger than the person who harmed it. It accepted the hurt, embraced the experience, and grew around it. That, Tucker, is what forgiveness is.

The things that wound us are the most important things we know

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.

Transference is essentially a compulsion to return to our past in order to clear up emotionally backlogged business.

We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

The heart itself cannot break, for its very nature is soft and open. What breaks open when we see things as they are is the protective shell of ego identity we have built around ourselves in order to avoid feeling pain. When the heart breaks out of this shell, we feel quite raw and vulnerable. Yet that is also the beginning of feeling real compassion for ourselves and others. —John Welwood Ordinary Magic

May those whose hell it is To hate and hurt Be turned into lovers Bringing flowers.