Quotes About Healing

Audre Lorde's writing is an impulse toward wholeness. What she says and how she says it engages us both emotionally and intellectually.

For as we begin to recognize our deepest feelings, we begin to give up, of necessity, being satisfied with suffering and self-negation, and with the numbness which so often seems like their only alternative in our society.

We can learn to mother ourselves.

I must let this pain flow through me and pass on. If I resist or try to stop it, it will detonate inside me, shatter me, splatter my pieces against every wall and person that I touch.

Grief stays with a person for a long time.

I have wept outwardly so that my eyes have paled, and inwardly so that my soul is washed clean!

Das hindert nicht, daß mich ein Band Buddhaismus stärker als all die übrigen heiligen Bücher beeinflußt

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in His Largeness and Laws. —August Wilson

And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.

Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things.

Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.

If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are displaying self-caring behavior. You are still able to actively seek solutions to your problems. You are willing to go to great lengths to provide what you believe will be soothing to yourself. This strikes me as optimistic.

This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.

So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.

The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.

Because all of us are made not only of what we have but what we lost. And loss is not a subtraction. As an experience, it is an addition.

Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it's served without advice or insight.

Truthfulness itself is almost medicinal, even when it's served without advice or insight. Just hearing true words spoken out loud provides relief.

This is the truest thing I know. Scars are nothing to hate, they are nothing to deny. They serve as our proof of what we survived, and there is nothing more beautiful than to have survived something.

As my friend Amy observed: Divorce is like a Polaroid picture. What truly happened will develop over time and you will see.

Only by embracing all that you regret and not denying it, only by placing the highest value on what you've gained because of all you've lost, does regret lose the ability to cripple you.

This is what you should know about losing somebody you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.

And it hits me, the reason for all the metaphors in recovery. Because the bald truth would be too terrifying. What she's saying is I may need an all-new career and all-new friends.

Truthfulness itself is almost medicinal, even when it's served without advice or insight. Just hearing true words spoken out loud provides relief.