Quotes About Healing

Emotional wounding creates the deepest distortions in one's personal illusory reality and therefore the greatest suffering.

Becoming aware of the beliefs behind the emotional wound frees you from this cycle of pain and hurt.

Un giorno però era accaduto qualcosa. Essendomi capitato di leggere in uno dei taccuini stendhaliani queste parole isolate: "All lost, nothing lost", di colpo, come per miracolo, mi ero sentito libero, guarito. Avevo preso una cartolina, ci avevo scritto sopra la riga di Stendhal, quindi l'avevo spedita a Micòl, tale e quale, senza metterci niente, nemmeno la firma, ne pensasse pure quello che volesse. Tutto perduto, niente perduto. Come era vero! - mi dicevo -. E respiravo.

Willingness to forgive frees the soul to laugh and cry and be The Beloved.

As I free myself through Forgiveness, Myself dances around Myself. I stand in the Light.

Forgiveness is never not possible.

I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.

Quem procura vingar-se por uma afronta sofrida condena-se a permanecer refém dela,

You have a good cry, lovey, you'll feel better afterwards. You did feel better afterwards, but as if you'd conned yourself, fobbed yourself off.

The modern adult, Jake had written, has really only one thing to say to its inner child: I'm sorry. I'm so fucking sorry 

Every present anger derives from past weakness.

Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

A-tone-ment-its a chance to fix the unfixable and to start all over again. It begins when you forgive yourself for all you've done wrong, and forgive others for all they've done to you. Your mistakes aren't mistakes anymore, they're just things that make you stronger.

You don't have to move past it, but you do have to move through it.

and it broke my heart in so many pieces I wondered if it would ever be whole again.

peace comes with forgiveness. And sometimes forgiveness must be earned—not from other men, but from our own hearts and spirits.

Don't you feel that your scarred heart was made whole the moment you gave your service to Christ?

What was it Freud once said? All depression is caused by the loss of someone's love.

I've learned enough about human nature to know that behind anger or bitterness or hurt there's always a wound, or fear, or frustration.