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Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

When it comes to my salvation, all I need is Jesus; after my salvation, everything is Jesus plus the...

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The reward for attention is always healing.

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Julia CameronThe Artist's Way

Gloria put a bowl of stew in Peter's hands. "Eat," she said.Peter raised the spoon to his lips. He c...

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Kate DiCamilloThe Magician's Elephant

I am here, come closer,” the old donkey said with her eyes. “I will mother you.

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Katherine DunnMisfits of Love: Healing Conversations in the Barnyard

What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been g...

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The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey ...

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Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

(Watching her) was a little like watching water lilies; rather more like smelling a dinner he was no...

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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Getting hold of the difficulty deep down is what is hard. Because if it is grasped near the surface ...

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the he...

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Christmas and Easter are attitudinal bookends for an enlightened world view. With an enlightened vie...

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Love will be our medicine.

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Marianne WilliamsonEnchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see ...

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Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

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Marianne WilliamsonThe Law of Divine Compensation: Mastering the Metaphysics of Abundance

Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And t...

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As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my sit...

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That timeI thought I could notgo any closer to griefwithout dyingI went closer,and I did not die.Sur...

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After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a ...

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Be patient, as you must always be patient with new pale seeds buried in the dark ground. When you ar...

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The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about...

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Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. ...

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It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to prob...

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Illness is always an interaction between [mind and body]. It can begin in the mind and affect the bo...

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Norman CousinsAnatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

But neither milk-white rose nor red May bloom in prison air;The shard, the pebble, and the flint, Ar...

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Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that;...

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The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sicknes...

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We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children o...

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Oswald ChambersThe Highest Good/The Shadow of an Agony

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start fro...

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I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the p...

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Sin is more than a stain. Sin is a wound; it needs to be treated, healed. The place where my encount...

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Pope FrancisThe Name of God is Mercy

The only thing that I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and...

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All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self. -Ram Dass

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a pos...

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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity h...

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Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-la...

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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity h...

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Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-la...

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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity h...

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Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-la...

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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity h...

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Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-la...

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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity h...

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Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-la...

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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity h...

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Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-la...

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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity h...

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Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-la...

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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity h...

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Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-la...

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But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his...

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Shane ClaiborneThe Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong...

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Time heals all wounds.

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinar...

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There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecst...

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You have come from the shadow of the heroin and the shadow of your brother, my friend. Come from the...

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My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came of his skin. it was like there had never been an...

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I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure,That time is no healer: the patient is no longer...

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T. S. EliotThe Dry Salvages

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

And now the birds were singing overhead, and there was a soft rustling in the undergrowth, and all t...

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More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet an...

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In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's ...

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I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge ...

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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but resto...

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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard...

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Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay d...

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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

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AberjhaniCollected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more tha...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vis...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it wa...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to re...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridicul...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, the...

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AberjhaniThe River of Winged Dreams

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

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AberjhaniThe River of Winged Dreams

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tem...

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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.