Quotes About Healing

Compassion- which means, literally, to suffer with- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we are the same. Indeed the main spiritual question is not, What difference do you make? but What do you have in common? It is not excelling but serving that makes us most human. It is not proving ourselves to be better than others but confessing to be just like others that is the way to healing and reconciliation.

Learn the discipline of being surprised not by suffering but by joy. As we grow old, there is suffering ahead of us, immense suffering, a suffering that will continue to tempt us to think that we have chosen the wrong road. But don't be surprised by pain. Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.

Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not 'How can we hide our wounds?' so we don't have to be embarrassed but 'How can we put our roundedness in the service of others?' When our wounds cease to be a source of shame and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly.

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.

To the SICK the doctors wisely recommed a change of air and scenery

It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

Time, however, the best physician of the mind

I should think that to hear such lovely music as that would really make him feel better. The lady gave a discriminating smile. "I am afraid there are moments in life when even Beethoven has nothing to say to us. We must admit, however, that they are our worst moments.

She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.

I should think that to hear such lovely music as that would really make him feel better. I'm afraid there are moments in life when even Schubert has nothing to say to us. We must admit, however, that they are our worst.

It seemed to her at last that she would do well to take a book; formerly, when heavy-hearted, she had been able, with the help of some well-chosen volume, to transfer the seat of consciousness to the organ of pure reason.

A child has no need to write, he is innocent. A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life.

everybody becomes a healer the moment he forgets about himself.

the best way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature

what might have been had this family chosen to model forgiveness for their daughters rather than bitterness.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

If thou art worn and hard beset, With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget; If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

And, as she looked around, she saw how Death, the consoler,   Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

I will forget her! All dear recollections Pressed in my heart, like flowers within a book, Shall be torn out, and scattered to the winds!

I am past scorching; not easily can'st thou scorch a scar.

for we all are dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending..