Quotes About Healing

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

Only poetry can address grief.

I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without it. Both on the physical plain, and the soul plain. Poetry helps us endure.

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.

Let go, let go, let go, Just let it go, Let the tears come out, Stop fighting the tears back, Stop wearing different masks, Let yourself be seen, Let yourself be the real you,

The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.

it is being honest about my painthat makes me invincible.

You keep playing with what broke you, then wonder why you don't heal.Leave the wound alone, throw away the poison, and watch the magic of recovery.Your wings of wisdom are ready for flight.

do not look for healingat the feet of thosewho broke you

We look at your eyes. The eyes carry the wounds. The eyes know damage. Damaged people recognize other damaged people, and we let you in. We are kindred. - Broken Places

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

Forgiving is all forgetting is another thing.

Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life's traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the positive.

The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll see there's a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.

I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.

Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.