The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships: the strength of a touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the grace of someone else taking you just as you are and finding in you an unsuspected goodness.
Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal. Becoming expert has turned out to be less important than remembering and trusting the wholeness in myself and everyone else. Expertise cures, but wounded people can best be healed by other wounded people. Only other wounded people can understand what is needed, for the healing of suffering is compassion, not expertise.
-- Rachel Naomi Remen, from Kitchen Table Wisdom

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~ Scatter Joy ~* - Emerson

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
~~Georg Groddeck (1866–1934), German psychoanalyst. The Book of the It, letter 32 (1923).

"Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
~~The Bible - Matthew 26:39-41 :: King James Version (KJV)

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen

A painful time in our life is what I call a “healing crisis.” We are letting go of something old and opening to something new. ~ Shakti Gawain

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,/ The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood,/ And only tears can heal. ~ Oscar Wilde

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason--it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process. ~ Richard Gere

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal. ~ A Course in Miracles

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again? ~ Rosa Parks

Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain. ~ O. Carl Simonton

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. ~ Wendell Berry

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. ~ Hippocrates

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. M. Kathleen Casey

The Healing Prayer Posted by tn here

"Do all things with love." Og Mandino

"It is a profound breakthrough for most people to realize that to know themselves more completely, and incidentally to heal themselves, is not so much a process of trying to solve their problems, but of entering fully into life as it is."

Source: Richard Moss (1947) THE BLACK BUTTERFLY – AN INVITATION TO RADICAL ALIVENESS, 1986 [300 pages] page 79

Kind thoughts
Marcus

"The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself, but that force is not independent of the belief system...everything begins with belief."
-- Norman Cousins (1915 - 1990)

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~*
~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~
*** Heck was created for those who refuse to believe in Gosh. ***

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
~~Sarah Fielding (1710–1768), British novelist. The Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last, bk. 7, ch. 10 (1754).

In the deserts of the heart / Let the healing fountains start, / In the prison of his days, / Teach the free man how to praise.
~~W H Auden, “In Memory of W B Yeats,” lines inscribed on Auden’s stone in Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey 2 Oct 74

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.~ Immanuel Kant
Dos moi pou sto kai kino taen gaen. ~Archimedes

When an emotional injury takes place, the body begins a process as natural as the healing of a physical wound.
Let the process happen. Trust that nature will do the healing. Know that the pain will pass, and when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware.~ Mel Colgrove

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life last. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.~Rachel Carson (1907-1964), U.S. biologist and writer. The Sense of Wonder.

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I arise in the morning, torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world.
That makes it hard to plan the day.~E. B. White

Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life.
-- Jeanne Achterberg

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.
~Isak Dinesen

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around . . . Throughout history, “tender loving care” has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
~Larry Dossey

So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.
~Auckland Geddes, The Practitioner

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
~Hippocrates

The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is.
~Latin Proverb

A stiff apology is a second insult . . . The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
~G. K. Chesterton

The world bruises us all, but some heal faster than others – and some bleed to death.
~D.H. Mondfleur

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention . . . A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
~Rachel Naomi Remen

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797), “Reflections on the Revolution in France,” 1790, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 3, p. 246 (1899).