Quotes About Healing

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

In any case, when we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. It is for this reason that in chronic mental illness we stop growing, we become stuck. And without healing, the human spirit begins to shrivel.

The healing of the spirit has not been completed until openness to challenge becomes a way of life.

Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace—a gift of God, a message from the unconscious, if you will, to initiate self-examination and repair.

It has been further suggested that the absence of love is the major cause of mental illness and that the presence of love is consequently the essential healing element in psychotherapy. This

Sooner or later, if they are to be healed, they must learn that the entirety of one's adult life is a series of personal choices, decisions. If they can accept this totally, then they become free people. To the extent that they do not accept this they will forever feel themselves victims.

Any genuinely loving relationship is one of mutual psychotherapy.

Sooner or later, if they are to be healed, they must learn that the entirety of one's adult life is a series of personal choices, decisions.

In the succinctly elegant words of Carl Jung, "Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."2

Vindecarea constituie rezultatul iubirii. Este o functie a iubirii. Oriunde exista iubire exista vindecare. Si oriunde nu exista iubire exista totusi putina - dar pretionasa - vindecare. In mod paradoxal, o psihologie a raului trebuie sa fie o psihologie prin care se manifesta iubirea. Trebuie sa fie plina de iubire de viata.

It is because they possess this courage, on the other hand, that many psychoanalytic patients, even at the outset of therapy and contrary to their stereotypical image, are people who are basically much stronger and healthier than average.

It is precisely because our consciousness is disordered that conflict occurs between it and the unconscious which seeks to heal it. In other words, mental illness occurs when the conscious will of the individual deviates substantially from the will of God, which is the individual's own unconscious will.

The essential ingredient of successful deep and meaningful psychotherapy is love. ... Intensive psychotherapy in many ways is a process of reparenting.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all

This transformation occurred by virtue of the fact that Orestes was willing to accept responsibility for his mental illness.

words of Carl Jung, "Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

But the substitute itself ultimately becomes more painful than the legitimate suffering it was designed to avoid.

You cannot be mother, therapist and healer-assist to six children and expect perfection, Jahir said. Of course I can, she answered. She snorted. I'm a nurse. It's what we do.

No, the sadness will soften, its edges will become less rough. In time missing him will be the way you love him.

We're all broken in one way or another, but it's through the cracks in our souls that the light comes through. And the light, Jenny, that's our art. Now, paint. Paint as if your life depends on it.

Os remédios do corpo pouco faziam, porque o coração era o mais doente.

It seems that misery had cured his soul, to the point that it made him feel like mud.

Once you understand a wound it loses its power to destroy you.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.