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π Healing
βHealing yourself is one of the most difficult yet beautiful commitments you can makeβ
β Yung Pueblo
βThe real work of healing is letting go of everything that isnt youβ
βIf you have ever been called defiant incorrigible impossible or broken you are on the right pathβ
β Clarissa Pinkola Estes
βLove and healing are always possible even in the most difficult circumstancesβ
β Bernie Siegel
βTo heal we must first acknowledge the wound and give it our full compassionate attentionβ
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βLet everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is finalβ
β Rainer Maria Rilke
βI am willing to release the pattern in my consciousness that created this condition and allow healing to beginβ
β Louise Hay
βLive your life from your heart share from your heart and your story will touch and heal peoples soulsβ
β Melody Beattie
βTrauma is not what happens to us but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witnessβ
β Peter Levine
βGuilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death and yet it is guilt that must be healed for us to move onβ
β Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
βInitiation through suffering brings us the gift of knowing that we belong to something larger than ourselvesβ
β Francis Weller
βThe attempt to escape from pain is what creates more painβ
β Gabor Mate
βWhen the time comes to heal the first person you will have to forgive is yourselfβ
β Iyanla Vanzant
βIn the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.β
β Unknown
βWho looks outside dreams who looks inside awakens and begins to healβ
β Carl Jung
βWhen we realize that our pain is not our fault but it is our responsibility to heal it everything changesβ
βAcceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this worldβ
β Eckhart Tolle
βThe privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are and healing makes that possibleβ
βOwning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever doβ
β Brene Brown
βThe ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousnessβ
β Judith Herman
βThe art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician.β
β Paracelsus
βIn mindfulness we can touch the healing and refreshing elements of life that are within us and around us every dayβ
βWe waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the wonder of our presenceβ
β Mark Nepo
βEven in the midst of suffering there is a grace that holds us and a healing that sustains usβ
β Jack Kornfield
βYou cant stop the waves but you can learn to surfβ
β Jon Kabat-Zinn
βThe point of power is always in the present moment right here and right nowβ
βThose who have a why to live can bear almost any howβ
β Viktor Frankl
βYou are enough just as you are right now in this moment and accepting that is the deepest healing availableβ
β Nayyirah Waheed
βThat is the thing about pain it demands to be feltβ
β John Green
βWe think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem but the truth is that things dont really get solved they come together and they fall apart and then they come together again and that is healingβ
β Pema Chodron
βThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside youβ
β Maya Angelou
βLife is full of suffering and it is also full of overcoming suffering and that overcoming is what we call healingβ
β Rachel Naomi Remen
βThe greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.β
β Hubert H. Humphrey
βThere are no mistakes no coincidences all events are blessings given to us to learn from and learning from them is healingβ
βThe first step in healing is to accept what is to honor the truth of your experienceβ
βWhat does not destroy me, makes me stronger.β
β Friedrich Nietzsche
βWhatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and demanding attention but when we look at it healing beginsβ
βLetting go does not mean forgetting it means you have given yourself permission to move forward and that is a major healing milestoneβ
βThe new year stands before us like a chapter in a book waiting to be written with healing inkβ
βWhat cannot be cured must be endured.β
β FranΓ§ois Rabelais
βTo keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.β
β Buddha
βHealing requires that we step away from the tribe long enough to hear our own inner voice clearlyβ
β Caroline Myss
βThe cure for pain is in the pain itself if you sit with it long enoughβ
β Rumi
βThere is no right way to grieve there is only your way and honoring that is healingβ
β Joanne Cacciatore
βMusic is the medicine of the mind.β
β John Logan
βTo listen is to lean in softly with a willingness to be changed by what we hear and that is healingβ
βEverything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself and healing changes those beliefsβ
βThe moment we believe something is wrong with us we abandon the healing power of our own presenceβ
β Tara Brach
βOur painful experiences are not a liability they are a gift offering us the most direct path to healing and wholenessβ
β Edith Eger
βNew beginnings are often disguised as painful endingsβ
β Lao Tzu
βYou deserve gentle hands especially your own and that gentleness is the seed of healingβ
β Thema Bryant
βThe heart surrenders everything to the moment the mind judges and holds backβ
β Ram Dass
βHealing is not about moving on it is about moving forward with all you have learnedβ
βAlthough the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.β
β Helen Keller
βThe ego keeps us trapped in old patterns of suffering but the heart knows the way to healing liberationβ
βWe can struggle with what is wrong with us or we can love what is right with us and loving what is right is the essence of healingβ
βOur whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being we are enough and that is the ultimate healingβ
βThe only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment and that step is all the healing you needβ
β Marianne Williamson
βWhen you are healed you can help heal the world and when you help heal the world you are healed yourselfβ
βTraumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies and making them feel safe again is the heart of healingβ
β Bessel van der Kolk
βAs we let our own light shine we unconsciously give others permission to do the sameβ
βOurs is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once but of stretching out to mend the part that is within our reach and healing starts thereβ
βHealing trauma is not about remembering it is about the body releasing what it has heldβ
βYou dont have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt you have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones youre holdingβ
β Cheryl Strayed
βThe boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedomβ
βWhen we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselvesβ
βYour healing matters not just for you but for everyone connected to you healing ripples outwardβ
βThe ego says once everything falls into place I will find peace the spirit says find peace and everything will fall into place for healingβ
βPeople have a hard time letting go of their suffering out of a fear of the unknownβ
βAll great changes are preceded by chaos and on the other side of chaos lies healing and renewalβ
β Deepak Chopra
βNobody can save you but yourself and you are worth saving thats what healing is all aboutβ
βNot why the addiction but why the pain understand the pain and you can begin to healβ
βThe meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction both are transformed and healing flows between themβ
βHealing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happenβ
βTrauma is not what happens to you it is what happens inside you as a result of what happened and healing reverses that inner processβ
βThe soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts choose healing colorsβ
β Marcus Aurelius
βIn the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved and how well we have learned to let goβ
βWe cannot choose what happens to us but we can choose how we respond and in that choice lies our healingβ
βHealing is not just about the body it involves every dimension of human experienceβ
βLife isnt as serious as the mind makes it out to be and healing begins when we lighten our grip on thoughtsβ
βThe paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect and healing unlocks that transformationβ
βRadical self-love demands that we see ourselves and others as worthy period and from that seeing healing happensβ
β Sonya Renee Taylor
βNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to knowβ
βAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossomβ
β Anais Nin
βThe art of living is more like wrestling than dancing in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unseen but healing makes it a dance againβ
βThe best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago the second best time is now just as with healingβ
βWithout forgiveness there is no future and without healing there is no forgiveness so healing comes firstβ
β Desmond Tutu
βHealing is entering with mercy and awareness those places in ourselves where we have closed our heartβ
β Stephen Levine
βWalk as if you are kissing the earth with your feetβ
βYou get in life what you have the courage to ask for and the courage to heal fromβ
β Oprah Winfrey
βThe quieter you become the more you can hearβ
βSuffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning and healing begins thereβ
βPerhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courageβ
βHe who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.β
β Thomas Carlyle
βYour healing is interconnected with the healing of the collective and both matter equallyβ
βTraumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community and recovery requires rebuilding those bondsβ
βTo have faith is to trust yourself to the water when you let go and sink into it you float and that is how healing worksβ
β Alan Watts
βRecovery can take place only within the context of relationships it cannot occur in isolationβ
βThe heart is like a garden it can grow compassion or fear resentment or love what seeds will you plant thereβ
βIn our own woundedness we can become a source of life for others and that mutual healing is the deepest giftβ
β Henri Nouwen
βAn abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior and understanding this is the beginning of healingβ
βThe soul is healed by being with children.β
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
βI am in the right place at the right time doing the right thing for my healingβ
βHealing doesnt mean the damage never existed it means the damage no longer controls your lifeβ
β Nikki Rowe
βThe purpose of our lives is to be happy and healing is the path to that happinessβ
β Dalai Lama
βWhen you are content to simply be and dont compare or compete everyone will respect you and healing flows to those who are contentβ
βBy the flood of tears I shed, I cleanse and heal the wounds of grief.β
β Ovid
βCompassion for ourselves is the most powerful healer of them all because it addresses the rootβ
βHealing is a different type of pain it is the pain of finally allowing yourself to feelβ
βThere is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.β
β Orison Swett Marden
βGrief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved where there is deep grief there was great love and healing honors bothβ
βThe conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma and healing resolves itβ
βAt the deepest level the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source and what is really healing is courageβ
βYou cant heal what you refuse to confront and you cant confront what you refuse to acknowledgeβ
βYour joy is your sorrow unmasked the deeper your sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can containβ
β Khalil Gibran
βEvery cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts so choose healing onesβ
βOur bodies are not an obstacle to overcome but a gift to celebrate and celebrating them is healingβ
βBefore you can heal others you must first heal yourself this is not selfish it is necessaryβ
βHealing begins where the wound was made and it begins with gentleness toward ourselvesβ
β Alice Walker
βHealing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.β
β Hippocrates
βOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.β
β Kahlil Gibran
βNothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion sometimes we need to let ourselves be confused and wait for clarity and healingβ
βThere is no coming to consciousness without painβ
βThe most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat and found their way out of the depthsβ
βWhere there is great love, there are always miracles.β
β Willa Cather
βHow people treat you is their karma how you react is yours and your healing lies in that reactionβ
β Wayne Dyer
βNo one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.β
β John Stuart Mill
βRadical acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is and from there healing flowsβ
βMy humanity is bound up in yours for we can only be human togetherβ
βThe most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have anyβ
βTurn your wounds into wisdom and your pain into powerβ
βForgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning and that new beginning is the essence of healingβ
βWhen we meet pain with mercy something new is born within us that is healingβ
βI do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me I want to be full on my own and that is healingβ
β Rupi Kaur
βForgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past and embracing the healing presentβ
βThe body keeps the score and it always winsβ
βI am not what happened to me I am what I choose to becomeβ
βGrowth demands a temporary surrender of security and healing requires the sameβ
βWhen pain is fully felt it turns to something else entirelyβ
βRest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βIn the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past but you will find yourself and that finding is healingβ
βThe doors to the world of the wild self are few but precious if you have a deep scar that is a doorβ
βThe physician treats, but nature heals.β
βFor real change to take place the body needs to learn that the danger has passed and to live in the reality of the presentβ
βWhat the soul needs is not more information but more initiation into the mysteries of grief love and healingβ
βBy three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.β
β Confucius
βGratitude makes sense of our past brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrowβ
βThe little things the little moments they are not little they are the fabric of healingβ
βThe healing that is hardest to find is the healing that lives within usβ
βWhat we dont need in the midst of struggle is shame for being humanβ
βCompassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is an equal partnershipβ
βIf someone does not want me it is not the end of the world but if I do not want me the world is nothing but endings and healing reverses thatβ
βWhen you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive β to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.β
βIn grief nothing stays put and nothing stays the same healing moves in wavesβ
βRemember you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasnt worked try approving of yourself and watch what happens to your healingβ
βThe last of human freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances and that choice is where healing livesβ
βRest is a radical act of healing in a world that profits from your exhaustionβ
βForgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different and freeing yourself to heal nowβ
βOne of the most challenging aspects of healing is the willingness to accept that your life has changed foreverβ
βWhat opens us is never what we plan and that spontaneous opening is a form of healing graceβ
βWhat I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have for healingβ
βNothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss nothing is as rich nothing is more real than healing joyβ
βTime is the best doctor.β
β Yiddish Proverb
βThe healing I have witnessed most often and most deeply is the healing of the heartβ
βGrief is not a problem to be solved it is an experience to be carriedβ
βHealing is possible when we understand that our symptoms are not the problem but signals pointing to itβ
βTime heals what reason cannot.β
β Seneca
βThe most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen just listenβ
βThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance and dancing is itself healingβ
βPeople are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from withinβ
βThe body is not an apology it is a site of radical self-loveβ
βDo you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clearβ
βLove and compassion are necessities not luxuries without them humanity cannot survive and healing cannot happenβ
βIn most of our human relationships we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight but real healing drops the costumeβ
βIn order to change we need to feel safe enough to take the risks that healing requiresβ
βTo me the essence of healing is knowing that I am loveable and capable of lovingβ
βHealing is not linear and that is okay give yourself permission to spiral and still growβ
βWe cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known and that is healing in actionβ
βTo heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fearβ
βWe heal the world one heart at a time starting with our own and that is enoughβ
βThe cure for a lost voice is not in the throat it is in the life that created the silence and healing that silence is the real workβ
βAnd forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair as nature heals youβ
βSuffering is universal but victimhood is optionalβ
βDaring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable to show up and let yourself be seen as you healβ
βMuch of your pain is self-chosen it is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick selfβ
βFreedom is in your mind and healing begins when you choose to use itβ
βYou do not have to be good you do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles repenting you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it lovesβ
βYou may forget the one with whom you have laughed but never the one with whom you have wept for weeping together is healingβ
βBetween stimulus and response there is a space and in that space is our power to heal and growβ
βWhatever you fight you strengthen and what you resist persistsβ
βThe most precious opportunity presents itself when we come to the place where we think we cant handle it and healing shows us we canβ
βThere is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.β
β Washington Irving
βJoy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.β
β Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
βWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beautyβ
βBeing able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental healthβ
βTrue belonging doesnt require you to change who you are it requires you to be who you are and that is healingβ
βDo not grieve anything you lose comes round in another form and that is the healing cycleβ
βThe simple truth is that happy people generally dont get sickβ
βThere is no future without forgiveness and no healing without it eitherβ
βPerhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patternsβ
βYou cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone withβ
βBeing able to hover calmly and objectively over our thoughts feelings and emotions and then take our time to respond allows the healing brain to functionβ
βOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scarsβ
βThe wound is the place where the Light enters you.β
βPain is inevitable suffering is optional and healing transforms the relationship between the twoβ
βEvery thought we think is creating our futureβ
βWhen things fall apart and the ground gives way beneath us we can learn to rest in groundlessness and find healing thereβ
βYour body has been a good companion what has it done to earn your contempt heal that relationshipβ
βEvery experience of love heals and every experience of fear wounds and we always have the choiceβ
βThe healing of trauma is a natural process that can be accessed through an inner awareness of the bodyβ
βThe body heals with play, the mind heals with laughter, and the spirit heals with joy.β
βPerhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in usβ
βWe must be willing to meet the world with the fullness of our being and let it break us open so healing can enterβ
βWhen you change the way you look at things the things you look at change and healing beginsβ
βWe are hardwired for connection and the healing that comes from truly being seen by another personβ
βYou must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first that is the real healing workβ
βShe made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible she walked with the universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wingsβ
βGrief is love with no place to go so we must create sacred spaces for itβ
βThe sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself.β
βThe master healer has no need to heal she simply reminds others of their own innate wholenessβ
βThe healing comes from letting there be room for all of it fear and sadness and happiness and loveβ
βThe body heals with play the mind heals with laughter and the spirit heals with joyβ
βHelping fixing and serving represent three different ways of seeing life when you help you see life as weak when you fix you see life as broken when you serve you see life as wholeβ
βHealing is not about going back to who you were before it is about becoming who you were meant to beβ
βSleep, rest of things, O pleasing deity, peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, weary bodies refresh and mollify.β
βTime heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.β
β Blaise Pascal
βRarely if ever are any of us healed in isolation healing is an act of communionβ
β bell hooks
βHealing begins where the wound was madeβ
βThe human body is the best picture of the human soul.β
β Ludwig Wittgenstein
βThe key to healing is to go through what you have to go through not around itβ
βThe work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the otherβ
βWe think that we need to learn how to give but really we need to learn how to receive healing loveβ
βI love and approve of myself exactly as I am right now this is the foundation of healingβ
βLearn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose there are no mistakes and no coincidences all events are blessings given to us to learn fromβ
βFor the meaning of life differs from man to man from day to day from hour to hour and finding that meaning is where healing beginsβ
βHealing is not about becoming perfect it is about becoming wholeβ
βWounding and healing are not opposites they are part of the same thing it is our nature to healβ
βRest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, is by no means a waste of time.β
β John Lubbock
βHe who has a why to live can bear almost any how.β
βLife is really very simple what we give out we get back and when we give healing we receive it tooβ
βTo create one must be willing to be stone stupid to sit upon a throne on top of a dunghill and still begin but that is healingβ
βThe only cure for grief is to grieve fully and completely allowing the healing to happen naturallyβ
βThere is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.β
β Euripides
βWhen we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us we often find that it is those who instead of giving advice have chosen rather to share our painβ
βThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you so tell it and healβ
βYour body and mind have remarkable healing abilities when you give them the right conditionsβ
βThe healing that comes from engaging life directly is the most lasting kindβ
βGive your daughters difficult names give them names that command the full use of tongue and that is how naming healsβ
β Warsan Shire
βThe greatest wound we all carry is the wound of not being enough but that wound can healβ
βIn the end forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of your heart and that heals everythingβ
βSleep is the best meditation.β
βAs long as you keep secrets and suppress information you are fundamentally at war with yourself and healing cannot beginβ
βMindfulness means paying attention in a particular way on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentallyβ
βThe pain body wants to survive and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it but healing breaks that identificationβ
βYou were not born to shrink down to less but to blossom into more of who you really areβ
βYour scars are beautiful they prove that healing is possible and that you survivedβ
βSome of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting goβ
β Hermann Hesse
βNobody escapes being wounded we all are wounded people whether physically emotionally mentally or spirituallyβ
βYou can always cope with the present moment but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection and healing happens in the presentβ
βHealing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing but if it is genuine it is enoughβ
βHealing does not require the denial of our pain but rather an encounter with it in the presence of one who caresβ
βLater that night holding an atlas in her lap she can trace the line of every country she has been and that is her healing mapβ
βBe miserable or motivate yourself whatever has to be done it is always your choice and healing is always availableβ
βActivity and rest are the two great healers and knowing when to use each is the art of healingβ
βNothing binds you except your thoughts and nothing limits you except your fear but healing releases bothβ
βIn any moment we can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and that softening is healingβ
βWe are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing and our efforts to find lasting healing pleasure become a source of suffering until we learn to rest in changeβ
βThe wounded child inside many males is a boy who when he first expressed his feelings was shut down but he can healβ
βVulnerability is the birthplace of healing innovation creativity and changeβ
βTraumatic symptoms are not caused by the event itself they arise when residual energy from the experience is not discharged from the bodyβ
βHealing is not the absence of disease but the presence of a felt sense of wholeness even in the midst of illnessβ
βWe are each made for goodness love and compassion our lives are transformed when we act in healing waysβ
βThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts and healing those thoughts transforms everythingβ
βThe wound is the place where the light enters youβ
βNo one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a sharkβ
βThe practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the worldβ
βPerhaps the most radical act you can commit is to be still and listen to the wisdom of your own healing bodyβ
βUnconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system and the most powerful healing forceβ
βLook within there is a fountain of healing there that will never be exhausted if you know how to access itβ
βNeuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going on inside ourselvesβ
βHealing is about reclaiming the body as a safe place to be and learning to trust its wisdom againβ
βWhen you stand and share your story in an empowering way your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody elseβ
βThese pains you feel are messengers listen to them carefullyβ
βI can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it and that refusal is the beginning of healingβ
βA cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.β
β Solomon
βWith everything that has happened to you you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a giftβ
βWhat is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still livesβ
βHistory despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived but if faced with courage need not be lived again and that facing is healingβ
βHealing is not a destination it is a way of livingβ
βForgiveness is no longer wishing that your past were different and choosing to heal your presentβ
βKnowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving when we can be alone we can be with others without using them as a means of escapeβ
βThe friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair who can stay with us in an hour of grief is the healing presence we needβ
βBe patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as part of healingβ
βNo one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.β
β Gautama Buddha
βYour biography becomes your biology and healing your story heals your bodyβ
βYour pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understandingβ
βHealing does not mean curing although the two words are often used interchangeablyβ
βThe universe took its time on you crafted you precisely so you could offer the world something distinct from everyone else and that uniqueness is part of your healingβ
βThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.β
β Frederick Douglass
βGrief and love are sisters woven together from the beginning there is no love without griefβ
βPatience is the best remedy for every trouble.β
β Plautus
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