Quotes About Healing

When you hold a fixed idea of yourself, you have to leave out all the parts that you find boring, embarrassing, difficult, or sad. You leave out the emotions you don't want to feel. And then when you do that, when you leave out all those parts, when those parts are not acceptable, then it eats away at you underneath. These unacknowledged parts are like a hum in the background that's eating away at you, and you have to find an escape to get away from that.

Among them was a man who had killed people in the Vietnam War and was tortured by self-loathing and guilt. Chögyam Trungpa told him, "That was then. This is now. You can always connect with your true nature at any time and be free of everything that went before.

When something hurts in life, we don't usually think of it as our path or as the source of wisdom. In fact, we think that the reason we're on the path is to get rid of this painful feeling.

An analogy for bodhichitta is the rawness of a broken heart. Sometimes this broken heart gives birth to anxiety and panic, sometimes to anger, resentment, and blame.

In reality, when you feel depressed, lonely, betrayed, or any unwanted feelings, this is an important moment on the spiritual path. This is when real transformation can take place.

the best way to serve ourselves is to love and care for others. These are powerful tools for dissolving the barriers that perpetuate the suffering of all beings.

Did someone harm you in 1962.. let go of it! Control and ride the horses of anger.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

Every present anger derives from past weakness.

I just want to touch people's ears. I want to touch people's lives. I want to give them something they can release to towards their anger.

Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.

There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.

... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

Many of us have read about and talked about forgiveness, and we understand intellectually why it might benefit us to let go of anger toward others. But we hold on anyway.

Like a cube of ice, anger cannot be eliminated by applying force, only by applying warmth, compassion and kindness.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

I find anger so comforting. It's like a blanket made of unresolved issues, but it's a blanket none the less.

Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Anger carries a person in your mind forever.The day U can stand in the room with some1 without being affected is the day you truly moved on