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Quotes About Healing

No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.
~ Aesop
While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
~ Aimee Bender
Being there was like having a good cry, the clearing of the air after weight has been held.
~ Aimee Bender
I asked them: Does it hurt? And the scar people nodded, yes. But it felt somehow wonderful, they said. For one long second, it felt like the world was holding them close.
~ Aimee Bender
Though loss did not pass from one person to another liker a baton; it just formed a bigger and bigger pool of carriers. And, she thought, scratching the coarseness of the horse's mane, it did not leave once lodged, did it, simply changed form and asked repeatedly for attention and care, as each year revealed a new knot to cry out and consider - smaller, sure, but never gone.
~ Aimee Bender
Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
~ Alain de Botton
Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
~ Alain de Botton
As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
~ Alain de Botton
Overcoming childhood could be understood as an attempt to correct the false stories of others.
~ Alain de Botton
PuÈ›ini oameni sunt pur È™i simplu nesuferiÈ›i; cei care r?nesc sunt la rândul lor r?niÈ›i. În aceste condiÈ›ii, reacÈ›ia cuvenit? nu e niciodat? cinismul sau agresiunea, ci, în rarele momente când suntem în stare de ea, iubirea.
~ Alain de Botton
Many people after a horrific few months or years of breakdown, will say: "I don't know how I'd ever have gotten well if I hadn't fallen ill".
~ Alain de Botton
Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.
~ Alain de Botton
We met it with love,' he cries, as if love were some all-purpose antibiotic, which to Geoffrey it probably is.
~ Alan Bennett
Her grief was a storm, a driving rain falling too fast to be absorbed
~ Alan Brennert
We moved into Jade Moon's rooming house within the week, and slowly she and I found that our friendship, though damaged, was like fabric torn on the seam: not beyond repair.
~ Alan Brennert
How do I contribute to end the suffering of humanity?" is the most important question you will ever ask. The answer to that question begins with your answer to the question, "How do I end my own suffering?" If you can find your own way out of pain, you will know how to help other people out of their pain. Until then your efforts are hollow
~ Alan Cohen
If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can't, choose their faith over your doubt.
~ Alan Cohen
If you simply love yourself, just as you are, right where you are, you will become an unstoppable force for healing and transformation.
~ Alan Cohen
Any problem you recognize represents but a tiny blip on the radar screen of your well-being. Even while you are experiencing a difficulty, homeostasis is working on your behalf to return you to perfect balance. Your role is simply to relax and allow nature to take its healing course.
~ Alan Cohen
When you can laugh about something, you know it is healed.
~ Alan Cohen
A Course in Miracles doesn't limit psychic self-mutilation to unrequited love. The Course tells us that any illness and any pain, physical or emotional, is our way of holding someone else guilty for hurting us. If we did not blame others, the Course explains, we would never be sick. I
~ Alan Cohen
Torturarnos a nosotros mismos o a los demás por alguna razón es una historia enfermiza de creación propia. Nada de eso es necesario.
~ Alan Cohen
As I touch the earth, I am healed and I give healing.
~ Alan Cohen
Carrying the past with us is always more burdensome than any mistake we have made. Guilt, resentment, and criticism of self or other s for past deeds is far more debilitating than a momentary error. Any energy we invest in reliving or resenting the past detracts from the life at hand.
~ Alan Cohen