Quotes About Healing

Don't you see you are a corpse too after what was done to you and the true life is waiting for you to pick it up.

My grandfather was hurt but none of us could get inside of him not the doctor not pictures not his sister or daughter or any of his grandchildren to make it stop.

With the passage of time, the consequences of any event accumulated, and left more to undo. And the more there is to undo, the less likely the mind is to even try. This was perhaps one way time heals wounds, by making them feel less avoidable.

If we want the world to change, the healing of culture and greater balance in nature, it has to start inside the human soul.

To seek pain as a form of salvation is to destroy oneself.

Just the thought of it hurts, but I truly believe that sometimes you have to be willing to break your own heart to save your soul.

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

If a wound is great you cannot turn it into something that is spoken, it can barely be written.

The deepest sorrow, he thought. Where the only way to survive is to excavate everything.

Her body had been in a war and, as in love, it had used every part of itself.

We find ourselves in a "collage" in which nothing has moved into the past and no wounds have healed with time, in which everything is present, open and bitter, in which everything coexists contiguously….

This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison—thinking you can cure them by sharing it—you will instead store it within you.

Maybe this is the way to come out of a war, he thinks. A burned man to care for, some sheets to wash in a fountain, a room painted like a garden.

She swabbed arms that kept bleeding. She removed so many pieces of shrapnel she felt she'd transported a ton of metal out of the huge body of the human that she was caring for while the army travelled north.

The war is not over everywhere, she was told. The war is over. This war is over. The war here.

You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison—thinking you can cure them by sharing it—you will instead store it within you.

Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you.

It is a strange time, the end of a war." "Yes. A period of adjustment.

If you take in someone else's poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you.

All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love—seemingly the most natural of acts.

When we learn to hear the unspoken feelings beneath someone's anger or impatience, we discover the power to release the bitterness that keeps people apart. With a little effort, we can hear the hurt behind expressions of hostility, the resentment behind avoidance, and the vulnerability that makes people afraid to speak or truly listen.

if the therapy works as it's supposed to, there won't be a lot of repeat business.

Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal others. We are our own best healers," she said. What came next? Taloma spoke of the ripples in water and how far they could travel. She prayed for us to become ripples of healing, traveling out from this room to repair the world before it was too late.

Cancer? Stamets's extract of turkey tail mushrooms (Trametes versicolor) has been shown to help cancer patients by stimulating their immune systems. (Stamets claims to have used it to help cure his mother's stage 4 breast cancer.)