Quotes About Healing

I'm pretty sure that it is only by experiencing that ocean of sadness in a naked and immediate way that we come to be healed—which is to say, that we come to experience life with a real sense of presence and spaciousness and peace.

My therapist said starving and dieting are like putting ice cream on a leg wound. I said that ice cream would feel cool and numbing. She said yes and then it would melt.

Carl Jung said that most painful issues can't be solved—they can only be outgrown, but that takes time and deep work.

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

sixth chapter of Luke: "Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.

In the rabbinical tradition, there is great insight in the notion that when we see suffering, we remember that this is only the sixth day. We're not done here. The good news is that God isn't, either. God is searching with us for a cure for cancer. God rejoiced at the cure for smallpox.

Trauma, which is stored differently in the brain than memory, seeps out of us as warnings of worse to come.

I'd given talks for years about how when it comes to grieving, the culture lies--you really do not get over the biggest losses, you don't pass through grief in any organized way, and it takes years and infinitely more tears than people want to allot you. Yet the gift of grief is incalculable, in giving you back to yourself.

You can change the world with a hot bath if you sink into from a place of knowing you are worthy of profound care, even if you are dirty and rattled.

Don't store guilt for future use. Afra

Physical injury is the least of the harmful accidents that this universe inflicts on its inhabitants; it is soonest mended.

How old is too old when you've a right knack with the sick?

Write to save yourself,' Athos said, 'and someday you'll write because you've been saved.

Write to save yourself ... and someday you'll write because you've been saved. You will feel terrible shame for this. Let your humility grow larger than your shame.

I learned to tolerate images rising in me like bruises.

All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.

Grief strikes where love struck first.

Write to save yourself,' Athos said, 'and someday you'll write because you've been saved.'" - from Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it.

It is the spirit which heals the transgressor, and that is in essence what matters.

that not what love is—an enlargement of the best and a healing over of the worst?

but putting her arms around him, telling him she loved him, were only palliative, on the surface, and she knew better than to pretend they reached the hurt.

Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out--anger is momentarily easier to cope with.

treatment—presumably