Quotes About Healing

Bereavement disrupts the whole structure of our lives and throws us into chaos.

All who heard the magical voice of that poor, ragged woman, felt lighter, happier and calmer than they had felt for a long time. Soon everyone had closed their eyes, the better just to listen. The songs went on and on, winding their way down into the people's minds and hearts, down into the very root of their beings, down to where they were all small and often afraid. It lifted them then and brought them out to the glorious sunlight where they felt happy and safe.

Al amar totalmente nuestra sombra, sus cualidades se transforman. La intriga se convierte en perspicacia, la intuición reemplaza a la manipulación y hay un surgimiento de la profunda sabiduría curativa de la mujer. Así son las mujeres que aceptan su verdadero poder femenino.

The only thing that brought me peace was to fully feel my human experience and accept that no matter what had transpired, in this or any life, underneath it all people do what they think is right or necessary at the time, and because of that, we are all both victims and perpetrators. We are all wounded, and wound one another because of it.

How can you know love, and lose it, and go on living without it, and not feel the loss forever?" "You can't," Feather answered. "You feel the loss forever. But you put it in a corner of yourself, and bit by bit some of your sorrow changes into joy. And that's how you go on living.

When did simple sadness become an inadequate expression of grief?

However, he should not permit himself to dwell on past

Para qualquer um que experimentou brutalidade deliberada, a menor gentileza se torna para sempre um choque depois.

No attack is ever really an attack on the victim. Its the perpetrator attacking an aspect of himself that he loathes. He or she. Try telling that to the victim, I thought.

The wounds you can't see are the worst.

You can't move forward with your life if you're constantly looking over your shoulder—for

I thought you were gone, Pepper. It was bad enough to lose you the first time, but to lose you like that? I couldn't have dealt with that.

Things happen. Things that you think you'll never get over. But you do. You move on. It gets better with time. You forget. Forgive. Whatever. Life goes on and you go on with it.

Her heart was broken, but it had not stopped beating.

Time eases all things.

A remedy too strong for the disease.

Une fois même, sur le chemin du retour, il a pris ma main. Et moi, j'ai eu mal. Je savais que cette main redeviendrait poing, qu'elle passerait bientôt du tendre au métal. Dans une heure ou demain et sans que je sache pourquoi. Par méchanceté, par orgueil, par colère; par habitude. J'étais prisonnier de la main de mon père. Mais cette nuit-là, mes doigts mêlés aux siens, j'avais profité de sa chaleur.

Sometimes laying in my bed, I would think that I should have died because I deserved to.

It is probably the only memory of real joy I have in the madness of my past.

Diet cures more than the lancet.

We must be trained to clarify minds, heal broken hearts, and create homes where sunshine will make an environment in which mental and spiritual health may be nurtured. Our schooling must not only teach us how to bridge the Niagara River gorge, or the Golden Gate, but must teach us how to bridge the deep gaps of misunderstanding and hate and discord in the world.

The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment

Henry Ward Beecher expressed the thought this way: "I can forgive but I cannot forget is another way of saying I cannot forgive.

Your Sangha is out there. It might not take the form of a Buddhist community. That's okay. Find your people, who you trust, with whom you feel safe. I don't just mean safe on the surface. But safe in a way that when they come to you with observations they make about things you are unwittingly doing to hurt yourself, you will be able to listen deeply—not shrink away in defense— learn from them, and ultimately alleviate your suffering.