Quotes About Healing

You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always the chance you'll want to use it later.

Mama says their skin bears scars different from ours because their skin is a map of all the sorrows in their lives.

how ridiculous it was. There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There now, hang on, you'll get over it. Sadness is more or less like a head cold—with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

When someone mattered like that, you didn't lose her at death. You lost her as you kept living.

Healing is dealing, and dealing is feeling, and feeling is healing.

Stored and stuffed emotions take a great toll on the body, and eventually the old built-up energy will be released in the form of painful physical manifestations.

Blanche's mind rang with remembered slights and taunts, and

Time healed all wounds. Of course, as some wag had pointed out, it also wounds all heels.

Grief is like a drunken houseguest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes—maybe even often—it's the solution.

Guilt is like a sore, endlessly fascinating, and the guilty party feels compelled to examine it and pick at it, so that it never really heals.

Come on and take your medicine!

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

I don't talk about this much, because it embarrasses me and it sounds pompous, but I still see stories as a great thing, something which not only enhances lives but actually saves them.

Confession may or may not be good for the soul, but it's undoubtedly soothing to the nerves.

Healing is a kind of revolt...all successful revolts begin in secret.

That John Coffey whose eyes were always streaming tears, like blood from a wound that can never heal.

Approach illness as an experiment in staying present, in opening your heart in hell. Discuss how we fear our hidden pain even more than death, and how noting and mindfulness brings that pain to the surface where it can be healed.

Naming of things as they are, without embellishment, make approachable those afflictive emotions and heavy states that obscure the heart. We know that we can't let go of anything we don't accept, the noting brings us into the presence of that which often distracts us from the present. It allows the healing in. And as we observe the appearance of things, we more easily acknowledge their subsequent disappearance, and some come to an appreciation of impermanence.

Note which states of mind accompany each moment of like and disliking. When we recall the statement, "Physician, heal thyself," this is where the healing begins. It is particularly important to notice that this constant liking and disliking that leaves us exhausted at the end of the day. It is from this mechanical response / reaction that our actions and reactions arises.

Healing is to reoccupy those parts of ourselves abandoned to pain; to enter with mercy and awareness those areas withdrawn from in fear.

We see not just that which is uninjured, but that within us which is uninjurable.

Each day become more fully alive. Practice noting gently and nonjudgmentally throughout the day. Add mindfulness practice to soft-belly opening work: fifteen minutes soft-belly and twenty minutes watching the breath, noting the activities of the mind. Approach illness as an experiment in staying present, in opening your heart in hell. Discuss how we fear our hidden pain even more than death, and how noting and mindfulness brings that pain to the surface where it can be healed.

Making room in our heart for our own pain, we make room in our heart for theirs.