Quotes About Healing

And what would you do if you lost a child? -I would think I was going to die, Elena said. But I wouldn't. I learned long ago that I must give up my child to the earth, to God, to the world, to death, to the possibility of death, to the possibility of disease, and in doing so I became at peace. Because I had let my child go. And in letting the child go, I became colder, more distant, and more at peace. But I still loved the child, don't be wrong. As you love your child. I am sorry.

At these moments sufferers desperately want to escape from their holes, the silence and loneliness, and return to the world we share with others… At these moments, language, the means of expression we are most comfortable with, becomes truly therapeutic – a form of medicine that has the power to relieve our suffering

And so he set about restoring them, using the tricks he had learned over the years. He went to them, speaking to each of them in tones so low that none of the others could hear, getting their names, gently touching them, asking about their pains, their fears, gently eliciting their stories, reminding them of why they had run in the first place.

The challenge for us is to realise our unity with all life, and even with the inanimate world around us. The seas with their currents, the atmosphere and the continents of the earth are all in motion, stirring with their own kinds of life. Our malaise as a civilised people comes in large measure from our ability to distance ourselves from nature and from one another. A real therapy is one with a vision, not only of the individual person, but also of how the whole planet is to be healed.

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

Music can get us through difficult patches in our lives by changing not only how we feel about ourselves, but also how we feel about everything outside ourselves.

Music can get us through difficult patches in our lives by changing not only how we feel about ourselves, but also how we feel about everything outside ourselves. It's powerful stuff.

If there was anything obviously heroic about medieval surgery, it was the patient.

I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family ' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

True forgiveness is the only key to real awakening. This level of forgiveness sees that individuals are always doing the very best they can in each moment,

For example, when a loved one dies, you validly think, "I lost him (or her), and I will miss the companionship and love we shared." The feelings such a thought creates are tender, realistic, and desirable. Your emotions will enhance your humanity and add depth to the meaning of life. In this way you gain from your loss.

Closing down in the midst of pain is a denial of a man's true nature. A superior man is free in feeling and action, even amidst great pain and hurt. If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one. He should learn to stay in the wound of pain and act with spontaneous skill and love even from that place.

Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing to feel your heart's terrors and wounds or else you will close and protect yourself, striking back at the source of openness you most yearn to become...

A Rescuer isnt always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholismall the ways we numb outcan rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.

This should be of no surprise when we realize that a common denominator of all traumas is an alienation and disconnection from the body and a reduced capacity to be present in the here and now.

Don't, Jar. There's been enough killing." "It'll never be enough! They murdered Dad!

la contemplation de la beauté était un pansement sur la laideur. Il en avait toujours été ainsi. Quand il se sentait mal, il allait se promener dans un musée. Le merveilleux demeurait la meilleure arme contre la fragilité.

as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from the here and now.

Sólo el silencio puede sustentar el avance de los supervivientes.

Deambulando por aquella ciudad a un tiempo moderna y llena de cicatrices del pasado, había asumido que era posible dejar atrás los destrozos, no olvidándolos sino aceptándolos. Era posible construir una felicidad sobre un telón de fondo compuesto por sufrimientos. Pero resultaba más fácil decirlo que vivirlo y los seres humanos disponían de menos tiempo que las ciudades para volver a edificarse a sí mismos.

Por mucho que se racionalicen las cosas, siempre es el cuerpo el que decide cuánto tardan en cicatrizar las heridas afectivas.

No, decidí que ya no me iba a afectar más. Creo que en esta vida podemos llegar… a superar lo que nos hace daño.

Para sobrevivir, tiene que pintar su historia. Es la única salida. Se lo repite una y otra vez. Tiene que devolverles la vida a los muertos. Se