Healing Quotes - Page 11

Forgiveness, she was only required to accept the seed of healing, and to let it grow on its own time.

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

Much healing can occur through the sexual act with a person you love and trust if the two of you can stay with each other during your most vulnerable moments. You enter into a sacred space, this unknown territory, from which you’ll emerge into new and unexpected states of being.

Life is a walking, a journey. So, if life upon Mother Earth is a journey, there are two ways to walk. We can choose to walk forward or we can choose to walk backward. Forward Walking choices are rewarded with consequences that light the way to peace, happiness, joy, comfort, knowledge, and wisdom. Backward Walking choices bring to the Two-Legged beings consequences of misery despair, and darkness.

The power of prayer is miraculous!

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

The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.

You needed love to win at the game of music...I played of sadness. I played of loneliness. Despair. Love found and lost. I played of tragic misunderstanding and weary cynicism and defeat. I played of perseverance, endurance beyond all suffering. Endurance in the face of hopelessness, hope when even hope was a betrayal...And yet, though I played so much sadness, the music at the same time denied despair. How could anyone despair while music was being played?

Closure is an American lie used to justify revenge. Healing is getting used to the pain, learning to be damaged.

Healing Magic I instill,Far Greater this,Than any pill!

Forgiveness is a skill gained by those willing to change.

It is not a single crime when a child is photographed while sexually assaulted (raped.) It is a life time crime that should have life time punishments attached to it. If the surviving child is, more often than not, going to suffer for life for the crime(s) committed against them, shouldn't the pedophiles suffer just as long? If it often takes decades for survivors to come to terms with exactly how much damage was caused to them, why are there time limits for prosecution?

The glory of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

I know you're in a world of pain, but that pain will lessen. At the beginning you can't see that. You can only see your pain and you think it will never go away.But the nature of pain is that it changes— it changes like a sunset. At first, it's this intense red-orange in the sky, and then it starts getting softer and soften. The texture of pain changes as you work through it. And then one day, you wake up and realize that life isn't just about working through your incest; it's about living, too.- survivor of child sexual abuse

Injuries heal, but wrinkles are the scars of time.

You have no control over what happens to you! You can only pray for grace and strength to endure any situation.

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

When we stop looking for someone to complete us... We find completion in ourselves.

Thank you Heavenly Father. You heard my petition. You have answered my plea.May your name be glorified and be praised.

Never allow any bitterness to take root in your heart.

I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame.

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.

The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you.

Lift up your heads, ye people,lift up your faces, too,open your mouths to sing His praise,and the rain will fall on you.

We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms,or our faith or lack of faith,but only with what God has said

In spite of the horror, in spite of the tragedy, in spite of the weeks of sleepless nights, I'm finally alive. I'm not pretending. I feel real. I'm not playing charades anymore. I wouldn't go back to the way I was for anything. I'm really like a different person. I'm where I am, and I'm making the most of it. I know I'm courageous now. I found out I had it in me to face this. — Barbara

And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

You can shut out the memories and keep going, but you'll have to live with a heart that's healed wrong.

We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

Without forgiveness and love, you will live with resentment, bitterness, malice and strife which result in more pain. You can never love without forgiving. Forgiveness deepens your ability to love and frees you from pain.

When you appreciate the blessings in life, your soul rejoices.

For death is the only certain thing in life,and despite this cliché being an absolute truth, with only the timing varying from one person to another, we never seem to be prepared for it. It is regarded as an end, as final and as negative, not as the metamorphosis it might be– the release of a spirit from physical to energy form, not unlike a caterpillar turning into a butterfly and experiencing new found freedom from the limitation of eternal crawling in search of sustenance.

You can’t know this right now, but…your ragged, rugged honesty…your crazy, passionate, naked vulnerability…your trusting plunge into the unknown of Life at every turn…your journey of love and healing…these change your world, the world of those around you and the world as a whole.Someday you’ll know how important you are.

All along it was not by stunts of glory, but by touch and laughter and tears that Jesus has healed and restored.

...Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all...! Romans 11:11

If you've been hurt and you've grieved and you've been through the mill, it takes a long time to get over it.

One thing we have learned is this: bringing compassionate, unflinching awareness to gender dynamics in groups and communities is a remarkably powerful place to begin. As in all spiritual practice, deepening awareness is itself transformative.

Many Christians... find themselves defeated by the most psychological weapon that Satan uses against them. This weapon has the effectiveness of a deadly missile. Its name? Low self-esteem. Satan's greatest psychological weapon is a gut level feeling of inferiority, inadequacy, and low self-worth This feeling shackles many Christians, in spite of wonderful spiritual experiences and knowledge of God's Word. Although they understand their position as sons and daughters of God, they are tied up in knots, bound by a terrible feeling inferiority, and chained to a deep sense of worthlessness.

We humble ourselves under the mighty grace of the Creator. He will deliver us from every chain and oppression.

We all get knock down in life. Encouragement lifted our spirit.

Public truth telling is a form of recovery, especially when combined with social action. Sharing traumatic experiences with others enables victims to reconstruct repressed memory, mourn loss, and master helplessness, which is trauma's essential insult. And, by facilitating reconnection to ordinary life, the public testimony helps survivors restore basic trust in a just world and overcome feelings of isolation. But the talking cure is predicated on the existence of a community willing to bear witness. 'Recovery can take place only within the context of relationships,' write Judith Herman. 'It cannot occur in isolation.

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

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.

Healing comes in many ways, and no one formula fits all.

Let's take off the masks and get real so we can get it right with God.

The heart has a deeper intelligence than the mind ever will.

Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.

John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody was going to listen to me anyway.

Are we not, all of us, in some way, damaged mirrors? Are we not constantly engaged in focusing the light of thought—memories out of the depths of human experience—onto the photographic plate of each moment? The image captured in this instant is a snapshot of all eternity, subtly altered by our own brokenness. And who’s to say that the image formed by a damaged mirror is not a truer picture of the universe?

Nourish your soul, mediate daily.

Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.

Jesus never encouraged His friends to cover over the pain in their lives, but to bring it into the light, where healing is found. Sometimes we don't do that because we fear being rejected by others. Yes, rejection may well happen, but bringing the pain to the light is still the best way to live. It will take much courage, but it will bring freedom.

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

The radiance of that which wants to be born illuminates the shadows, bringing them into the light of awareness that they may be healed.

Forgive your self and others by removing the anger that stands in your way and replace it with love, to heal your soul and your spirit.

I don't defend pain, But I do respect its ability to make us stronger and wiser after it stings.

How do you wipe away pain? You don’t. You put in tenderness, compassion and joy. You cling to hope and then you offer everything to God. And you wait, with faith you see all things anew – light shines out from darkness, happiness grows through every pain, and all things become indeed so very beautiful in His time.

I wanted to pretend for just a little longer that I was whole again. Happy. Then I'd figure out how to pick up the pieces and move on.