Quotes About Healing

When we can step back even briefly from our hurt, sorrow, and anger, when we put our faith in the possibility of change, we create the possibility for non-judgmental inquiry that aims for healing rather than victory.

Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered.

Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts.

To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and feel compassion for the circumstances and everyone involved, starting with ourselves.

Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.

We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention.

Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice.

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Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.

Healing comes in many ways, and no one formula fits all.

When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.

When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize that what we've perceived as our pain is, at a deeper level, the pain inherent in human existence.

Every time you cry, you should cry your heart out. That way you'll get the best release.

You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love.

In some ways to be able to forgive, to let go, is a type of dying. It is the ability to say, ' I am not that person anymore, and you are not that person anymore.' Forgiveness allows us to recapture some part of ourselves that we left behind in bondage to a past event. Some part of our identity may also need to die in that letting go, so that we can reclaim the energy bound up in the past

Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us—and our beloveds—healthier.

Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of our acts, real or imagined, and the secrets we keep about them.

The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame.

It's affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.

A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know.

The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships.

Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy.

Letting go of the belief that we're powerless to help relieve our own suffering enhances our ability not only to heal but also to genuinely love and receive the love of others.

Love seems to open and expand us right down to the cellular level, while fear causes us to contract and withdraw into ourselves.