Healing Quotes

“Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.”

“I will through and throughCleanse the foul body of th' infected world,If they will patiently receive my medicine.”

“Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

“We are the mirror as well as the face in it.We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity.We are pain and what cures pain both.We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.”

“Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.”

“The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now.What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses.A left hand has become a right.A dark wall, a window.A cushion in a shoe heel,the leader of the community!Now silence. What we sayis poison to someand nourishing to others.What we say is a ripe fig,but not every bird that flieseats figs.”

“A smile cures the wounding of a frown.”

“We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.”

“If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.”

“Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.”

“Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.”

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”

“Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.”

“Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care!”

“All forgiveness is self forgiveness.”

“Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.”

“Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.”

“Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.”

“I am patient and loving with my fearful thoughts. Be patient and loving with every fearful thought. Practice observing your fears as a witness, and you'll see them dissolve.”

“Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises”

“You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.”

“What you have despised in yourselfas a thorn opens into a rose.”

“There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.”

“As you begin to heal the inner you, you alter your immune system.”

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