Healing Quotes

Only grace-large doses, frequently displayed, released-will restore the wounded.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

Only the wounded physician heals.

Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board.

The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

An allopath comes and treats cholera patients and gives them his medicines. The Homeopath comes and gives his medicines and cures perhaps more than the allopath does because the Homoeopath does not disturb the patients but allows the nature to deal with them.

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

The footpath down to the well is healed.

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

Time will bring healing.

Great griefs medicine the less.

No buts," he said, "because there are none. You see yourself as someone who couldn't get away. I see the courageous woman who escaped. You see yourself as someone who should be ashamed or guilty because she let it happen. I see a kind, beautiful woman who should feel proud because she stopped it from happening ever again. Not many women have the strength to do what you did.

Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.

Herb? Herb is the healing of the nation, seen? Once you smoke herb, you all must think alike. Now if you thinking alike, dat mean we 'pon the same track. If we 'pon the same track, that mean we gonna unite.

Every one of us can blame somebody for something that has happened in our lives. But don't waste your time. What we need most is a steady stream of love flowing among us. Love that quickly forgives, willingly overlooks, and refuses to take offense.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.

Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on.

When you are sick of your sickness you will cease to be sick.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.[Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace.

The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.

I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

All your wounds from craving loveExist because of heroic deeds.

I know you loved her, but it's okay to let it go now. You know that, don't you? You've got to be able to let it go.

Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.

Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to turn away from it comes, observe it but don’t act on it. Keep putting your attention on the pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.

Sleep knits up the raveled sleeve of care.

Work could cure almost anything

Every need brings what's needed.Pain bears its cure like a child.Having nothing produces provisions.Ask a difficult question,And the marvelous answer appears.

If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.

There is no future without forgiveness

If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.

Deadly emotions, buried alive, never die.