The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

Your desire and willingness will call forth witnesses to Awakening, and there is nothing in form that can speed up Awakening – for form but witnesses to the desire within.

I believe I gather strength from the generations of women who came before me – that together we all hold the suffering of the world.

For there is nothing like travel to heal a broken heart.

One has to beckon the spiritual warrior inside oneself whenever it is deemed necessary for the task at hand. Courage is the fuel. Healing is the direction. Forgiveness is the balm. Love is the atmosphere...

Leaving the age of materialism and duality behind us, we now seek to become Masters of the Spiritual Kingdom ~ moving into the penthouse of ourselves, the crown chakra, as it were. Herein lays all...

We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don’t heal by forming a secret society of one – by assessing about the only other ‘one’ we might admit, and being doomed to...

There’s an undeniable healing power in telling the truth to someone who validates you by simply listening . . . honor washes away the stench of shame.

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

I have no guarantee that God will choose to heal Ann, but I know he wants me to pray to that end.

Sometimes therapy takes years and years, and sometimes it can happen in one miraculous instant, a lifetime of doubt and self-hatred healed in a moment of astounding love.

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

Silence heals.

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.

Each time I perform an act of kindness, a part of me heals.

The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people.

MOTHER – By Ted KooserMid April already, and the wild plumsbloom at the roadside, a lacy whiteagainst the exuberant, jubilant greenof new grass and the dusty, fading black of burned-out ditches. No leaves, not yet,only...

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning...

Healing is the gateway to peace and peace is the path to passion and purpose.

Never let kindness be your weakness, never let your weaknesses be your downfal

You matter. You’re not broken. You’re stronger than you think.

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.

I do not claim to be a healer: only God is the Healer.

For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith; from pain so deep, it calls on the hidden fears of the soul...

When envy lies within a woman’s heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something to be disgusted by. I have experienced it so much in my own...

Forgiveness, no matter your motive, is a dynamic of mutual healing.

…real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.

[M]y only route was trust: trust in a *deeper* wisdom, the wisdom responsible for making my heart beat, my eyes shine, my hair grow; trust in the infinite intelligence responsible for making my cells replicate;...

You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone...

Nature does not know of the challenges that face us. No matter what money difficulties we have, the sun will continue to shine. If it is health challenges we face, the grass will continue to...

Interact with others as if you are radiating happiness and healing from within.

It’s not a crime to feel sad, down or depressed. Moving through difficult feelings is an essential part of living life authentically. Though society would have us believe that when we are sad, we need...

I think you’ve got to get out whatever’s hurting you through your art, so it doesn’t twist you up inside.

I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections.and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill.I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional...

The Book of Numbers relates that when the people murmured rebelliously against God, they were punished with a plague of fiery serpents, so that many lost their lives. When they repented, Moses was told by...

Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.

The soul of us is never confused about why it is here.It only asks us to wake up and see the breadcrumb clues it has been leaving all along.It asks us to have courage to...

Encouragement is a fire of flame. It refreshes the soul and revives the spirit.

Pursue your passion and live your best life.

Love is divine.Forgiveness is divine. Forgive for the love for yourself and others. Forgiveness is a spiritual healing for the person who forgives.

But I understood, now, that we don’t live only for ourselves. We’re connected by millions of shared experiences and dreams and nightmares, all tied together with compassion. I learned that even when we’re going through...

I have experienced healing through other writers’ poetry, but there’s no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I’ll write a bad poem.

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.

You know what’s sexy? A person who’s been through a life challenge, and comes out with insights, more depth, and a fiery passion to face forward, forward, forward!

Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind...