Quotes About Healing

Time takes away the grief of men.

Having looked the beast of the past in the eye, having asked and received forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

Trust is like broken glass, sometimes it's better to leave it broken than to cut yourself trying to rebuild it.

Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.

Vengeance will never take away sorrow. It will breed more anger.

anger will yield nothing but more pain and suffering.

Vengeance will never take away sorrow. It

God doesn't erase our past for us. Instead, he heals the one we've got.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger

C'est incroyable ce que la musique peut charpenter une vie, toute une vie, et te la rendre par pans entiers, alors que tu pensais avoir tout oublié.

First, living in community cannot erase buried emotional pain. When people find that after living in community they're still yearning for something valuable and elusive (although they may not know what it is), they tend to feel angry and disappointed.

Ahora que finalmente me he enfrentado a las pesadillas que acosaban mis noches puedo aceptar el fantasma de mi pasado.

That wonderful, terrible night when her mother died and her whole world had been destroyed, when she realized she loved Kai and her whole world had been created anew.

Most of us travel through life with heavy, bulky emotional baggage. To our great relief, with meditative practices and their healing modalities, we can shrink this baggage to carry-on size.

I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace. I will honor all life —wherever and in whatever form it may dwell—on Earth my home, and in the mansions of the stars.

Everybody has a scar...

Let's reframe what you're going through, Maggie," he said. "I'd like you to think of it as grief." "For the people who died?" "No. For yourself. For the life you thought you had before the fire. Before Ben.

Two decades had passed, yet she still saw her parents' bloodied bodies in every shooting victim she treated.

Perhaps now that she'd told the story, it would lose its power over her. She hoped she would never have to repeat it to anyone ever again.

It's not my mind that's sick... It's my soul. ...and there aren't any drugs that are gonna fix that.