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Healing Quotes


"If you are sad, love will make you happy; afraid, love will make you brave; weak, love will make you strong; and broken, love will make you whole."


"A wound won't heal if you keep touching it."


"People say that a person has a fever, when [in reality] the fever is leaving! The fever which accumulated within the body as a result of abnormal food, the body's vitality power then creates the fever for the purpose of purification."


"It hurt to be wounded. But healing begins with forgiveness."


"I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again."


"Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can't see a way to move forward - believing things can never change for someone as unworthy as us."


"Forgiveness can help you to be sane."


"Without forgiveness, there is no healing."


"They scold their own hearts but it actuates no real change, only deepens the wound. But they can't look away from it. Thus, by paralyzing their Present, we beat The Adversary on His home turf. And loop after loop, the depressed haunt and harrow themselves, sometimes for years, when they have only, for a brief moment, to look away from themselves, to look up."


"Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy."



"It's affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry."



"We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive-and forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of any given situation."


"When we are in constant pain, we cannot empathize with others, nor can we help them. It is only when we allow ourselves to open up to our own nourishment that we are free to feed the rest of the world. And thus, to attend to one's own suffering is the most selfless act."



"Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy."
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