Quotes About Healing

You give thanks for the healing that you know will come. Then you keep your mind off the difficulty until you feel guided, after an interval, to pray again. While you are praying, you refuse to give any power to the negative conditions or to admit for a second that the healing will not come. This attitude of mind brings about the harmonious union of the conscious and subconscious mind, which releases the healing power.

Her heart beat with the rattle of broken wings.

You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover. What Rissa's death did to the boy I was? You have the ability to do a thousand times worse to the man I've become.

I remember too much. But don't worry, Don Sombra. People like me have an infinite ability to forgive themselves.

When we as God's children realize that His grace is sufficient for every situation, at that point we are no longer victims. We are free to rise above and move on beyond whatever may have been done to us, to release those who have wronged us, and to become instruments of grace, reconciliation, and redemption in the lives of other hurting people—even in the lives of our offenders.

While music may be the food of love, it can also serve as solace for love's demise.

Actually, therapy isn't just about feeling better - it's about getting better, which usually involves feeling worse for a while.

She nodded, hoping he was right and her jagged edges would smooth and that being beaten up by life could turn out well. "It's

Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And that Lucy was just at the beginning. That a terrible thing had happened - two terrible things, really - but they were now over. And that Lucy would be okay, in the end.

My help is in the mountain Where I take myself to heal … I find a rock with sun on it And a stream where the water runs gentle And the trees which one by one gives me company. So must I stay for a long time Until I have grown from the rock And the stream is running through me And I cannot tell myself from one tall tree. … My help is in the mountain That I take away with me. Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson

Climate change pits what the planet needs to maintain stability against what our economic model needs to sustain itself. But since that economic model is failing the vast majority of the people on the planet on multiple fronts that might not be such a bad thing. Put another way, if there has ever been a moment to advance a plan to heal the planet that also heals our broken economies and our shattered communities, this is it.

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain. —JAMES BALDWIN Notes of a Native Son, 1955

Intent doesn't matter, she'd say, when you've really injured someone else. You need to be open to their pain and anger if you're ever to make things whole between you.

Knowing how to make a potion that will heal the lining of your stomach after you've accidentally drunk some lyesmoke-infused apple juice is its own reward, really.

Intent doesn't matter, she'd say, when you've really injured someone else. You need to be open to their pain and anger if you're ever to make things whole between you.

We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.

Skin had hope, that's what skin does. Heals over the scarred place, makes a road.

Sometimes a bus ride was all it took to feel better.

Grief is an ambush. You're walking along feeling fine, look down, see a leaf, and begin to weep. —Jack

I don't know if my father can hear me. But it is important to pretend he can./ My sanity rests in that. The man he was can hear the daughter I am.

So many people saying, Let's improve these problems right now! Except extremists. Extremists never wanted things to improve. They just wanted to win. They needed psychiatrists.

Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a form of injury to the brain and body, and even as a variant of castration.

God wants us to perform good deeds--to repair what's broken, to make things better in the world.

At the bottom of the human heart there is an ulcer which grows with the years. It is the ulcer of resentment at being exploited by others. Nobody escapes it; it takes time for the soul to locate it and, if and when God wills, to root it out.