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Quotes About Healing

the Nazis taught me this: There is a Hitler inside each of us and if we do not heal the Hitler inside of ourselves, then the violence, it will never stop.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
La amargura hace más daño en la vida donde se acumula que en aquel sobre quien se derrama».
~ Stephen Kendrick
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.
~ Stephen King
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.
~ Stephen King
To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.
~ Stephen Levine
Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)
~ Stephen Levine
Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)
~ Stephen Levine
D]on't cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)
~ Stephen Levine
If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)
~ Stephen Levine
We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)
~ Stephen Levine
When your fear touches someone's pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone's pain, it become compassion.
~ Stephen Levine
I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were 'I love you.' There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)
~ Stephen Levine
To heal is to touch with love that which was previously touched by fear.
~ Stephen Levine
healing comes not from being loving but from being itself. It is not a case of being clear but of clear being. This healing is not about anything else but being itself. Nothing separate, no edges, nothing to limit healing. Entering, in moments, the realm of pure being, the gateless gate swings open-- beyond life and death, our original face shines back at us.
~ Stephen Levine
forgiveness is not a condoning of the unskillful act which has caused injury, but a touching of the actor with mercy and loving kindness.
~ Stephen Levine
It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within.
~ Stephen Levine
The confirmation of history is that we are not called despite our wounding and betrayal; we are wounded and betrayed because we are called. And God yearns to make your pain redemptive in your life.
~ Stephen Mansfield
As you forgive, you are allowing God to clean up the mess and start making your life right again. The demonic taunts are coming to an end. Peace is returning. Perhaps relationships are even being restored, and your faith is rising.
~ Stephen Mansfield
This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
Something in her expression made Covenant feel that he came from a very poor world, where no one knew or cared about the healing of stoneware pots.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.
~ Stephen Richards
Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done. When you get to that time that is now, make a full and total forgiveness of your entire life and smile at the bouquet in your hands because it truly is beautiful.
~ Stephen Richards
The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.
~ Stephen Richards
Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you.
~ Stephen Richards