Don’t rely on labels to give you the information you need. Trust only the ingredient list and your gut.

Trying to find answers to why and how my life got into such a dismal mess, I sought answers in the scriptures, in religion and philosophy, but it only confused me further. Stories, on the other hand, helped me cope, heal and recover.

When life knocks you down, roll over and look at the stars.

When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.

Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.

Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts.

Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.

Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

The truth hurts, only when it can heal.

Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be.

Love is the strongest force there is. There is no stronger healing power than love. Love is pure magic. Love transforms people without really does anything. The mere presence of love transforms people. There is nothing more holy than love since love makes people whole.

Those who overcome great challenges will be changed, and often in unexpected ways. For our struggles enter our lives as unwelcome guests, but they bring valuable gifts. And once the pain subsides, the gifts remain. These gifts are life’s true treasures, bought at great price, but cannot be acquired in any other way.

The greatest teacher in healing is nature itself. To be out in the nature is like being surrounded and embraced by love. Trees are also very beautiful people, who have their own innate wisdom and who are already in oneness with Existence. And the sky whispers its silent message that, beyond everything, there is only...

They called her witch because she knew how to heal herself.

Working with people is basically not a question of formal education; working with people is a question of energy and awareness. Everyone can basically work with people. It is a question of developing a presence and a quality to work from. It is also about discovering our own unique way to be and work with...

Healing is the way of the heart. This book is an invitation to open our heart. Healing is a love affair with life.Healing is pure love. Love is what creates healing. Spiritual healing is to be one with ourselves. And to be one with ourselves is to be in joy.Healing is to develop our inner...

The human heart is a healer, which heals both others and ourselves.

It is when we develop both our inner man and woman that we find a new harmony and wholeness within ourselves. Healing means to develop and integrate our inner man and woman so that love can flow between them. To rediscover our own inner source of love, we need to embrace both the male and...

Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.

You’re not broken beyond repair there is hope. There is a God who knows all the pain you endure and will heal, protect and rejuvenate you.

A song for you A song for me Is how we relate our life to be

[Mandela] had believed all his life that you are very much in control of your own body, and, in the process of healing, your mind had to be stronger than the medicines applied. You also had to have determination to get better.

In the experience is the emotion. In the emotion is the gift.

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

Always remember, wherever you are, whether near or far, you had a mother who really, really loved you. The original mother. Once you’ve found your true inner guru you can never again be divided. Perfect union with the divine, through the grace of your real teacher, transcends time, space, death and all worldly limitations. Your...

I can always recognize the fellow wounded.

Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically, like writing, putting one word after the other until you have created a whole self and a whole life in the process.

Hiding a wound can cause a serious infection without healing. It has to be exposed and washed. Sure, the cleansing may cause pain at first—but, in the end, it brings healing, as well as relief.

As I watched them file down the stairs, I didn’t cry and I wasn’t afraid. But I couldn’t tell if it was Jesus or the gin.

Many people ask how to heal an aching heart. I ask in return how does one release the attachment to the aching?

It takes a strong woman to lose everything, then stand naked in front of the mirror and face herself again. You need time, honey. And I don’t mean time for it to go away. I mean time to learn how to live with it. This is a pain you’ll always carry.

Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.

Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.

Every heart needs healing.

We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize those identities, in order to know who you are today.

Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.

With the change of the seasons, God reminds us that darkness always ends. Light always exists and will always return when missing. There is no night that doesn’t end. No nightmare from which you cannot awaken. No hurt that cannot heal.

There was so much about our past that I still didn’t understand, and I wasn’t one to tell the future. I could only tell the way the world worked. History was a tangled thing, people were resilient, and the one constant law of the world was that it would heal.

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.(pg.99, “The Body and the Earth”)

The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.

You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine–hope.

When you deeply love someone from that space that is beyond attachment to certain projections or desires, when you love someone just deeply, totally, completely, without any games that the mind or emotions play, then that love remains eternal in the heavens forever, and that is what pulls you back to remembering that love.

Where ego comes in, loving kindness departs. So wherever there is ego, there is very little space for true bliss and true happiness because true bliss and true happiness isn’t exclusive to the attachments the ego enjoys playing with, but rather a free state of mind that is part of loving kindness and its activities...

The way to Bliss is through Understanding, through Wisdom.

As you embrace Consciousness, you embrace Perfection.

Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.

She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.

How often do we think “I am but one person, what can I do to make a difference”, but we are all in this journey together. Each act of kindness, compassion, courtesy and Love is but a stone dropped into the lake of life causing a ripple; yet when we combine them all, they meet...