Quotes About Healing

The human being has enormous resources in the power to heal. And in those resources lie things that we ourselves need to clear or feel.

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that!

There is a comfort in knowing that you don't have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

I allow the healing power in my body to manifest perfect health.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

grief just sits there.

The grief doesn't leave. It becomes a part of you. Either you learn to live with it or you die. ... But grief just sits there.

Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.

We were terrified to stop, stop anything, and admit that something was wrong. Activity, frenzied activity, seemed to be the thing we all felt we needed. Only Dad slowed down, and that wasn't until he was trapped in a hospital getting intravenous antibiotics. Everything would be all right, everything would be possible, anything could be salvaged or averted, as long as we all kept running around.

He starts to whisper a prayer. "Whatever beings there are, may they be free from suffering. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from enmity. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from hurtfulness. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from ill health. Whatever beings there are, may they be able to protect their own happiness.

The Bite of the Mango,

Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking

If our so-called understanding of animals does not ignite within us a loving urge to allow them to fulfill their lives and purposes, to honor, respect and appreciate them, then it is not true understanding. Our science is in many ways incapable of this authentic understanding, and, because it is also often a vehicle of corporate power, it is best not to rely on it too heavily in our quest for wisdom or healing.

As individuals and as a culture, our ability to heal, transform, and evolve beyond this old defiling mentality is tied to our food choices more than to anything else. To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure.

As we free others, we become free; as we love others, we are loved; as we encourage others, we are encouraged; as we bless others, we are blessed; as we bring joy and healing to others, we find joy and healing in our lives.

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind. - Epicurus

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

You think it begins to diminish with time, the pain, then it comes back and hits you with a rawness and freshness you had forgotten.

it is not talking about a loss but rather pretending that it doesn't exist that stirs up trouble.

As for the rest of the emotions grieving people feel, treat them seriously, but don't consider them as something you personally caused. Don't get defensive or argumentative.

Depression—feelings of being down, flat, dead; feelings of hopelessness; being tired all the time. Like sadness and anger, depression is hard to be around. You can't make it go away, however. People need to go through it, not around it.

Endings occur more easily if people can take a bit of the past with them. You are trying to disengage people from it, not stamp it out like an infection. And in particular, you don't want to make people feel blamed for having been part of it.

Sending love to a manifestation of fear will cause it to dissipate and disappear.