Quotes About Healing

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

People in the hospital ... call me the wellest man on the ward. That's what's going to sustain me. I have these energy reserves that I somehow can't seem to deplete.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the world. As above, so below.

Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine.

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

In psychotherapy it's common to think that problems begin at a certain point in life as a result of certain situations, and that the particular time and situation must be dealt with in order to remove the problems. This may be so for particular problems, but suffering begins long before childhood, long before birth. No matter how perfect the childhood, everyone will still have problems.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

let us desire that not our wills, but His will, be done.74 If we have not progressed as far as this, then, as I have said, let us practise humility, which is the ointment for our wounds; if we are truly humble, God, the Physician,75 will come in due course, even though He tarry, to heal us.

determined to ask those of heaven to heal me--for I wished, nevertheless, to be well, though I bore my illness with great joy. Sometimes, too, I used to think that if I recovered my health, and yet were lost for ever, I was better as I was. But, for all that, I thought I might serve God much better if I were well. This is our delusion; we do not resign ourselves absolutely to the disposition of our Lord, Who knows best what is for our good.

Through the mechanism of carried shame and carried feelings, the unresolved pain of previous generations operates in families like an emotional debt. We either face it or we leverage our children with it.

Maturity comes when we tend to our inner children and don't inflict them on our partners to care for.

the only person who can with absolute consistency be there for our inner children is us. And that's okay. That's enough. Once we learn how to do it.

And the more trauma you sustained as a child, the more compelling you and me becomes.

The central question I ask myself during a therapy session is simply this one: Which part of you am I talking to?

An addict needs shame like a man dying of thirst needs salt water.

Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.

His tears reached deep inside and tore great chunks from what was left of his heart.

He sank in emotion, but kept praying, lifting Beth up to the throne of heaven, laying her in the arms of God, begging him for healing. Even Logan, who usually prayed in halting one-sentence prayers, talked openly to God, appealing to the Creator of the universe to pull Beth from the edge of death.

Be a love pharmacist: dispense hugs like medicine - they are!