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"I was speaking to a writer the other day and he gave me a valuable piece of advice. He said that you may get to where you want to go quicker through violence, but the healing process takes longer. Whereas if you don't use violence, there is not much healing necessary, so you win in the long run."
"The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words."
"Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside."
"I believe that alternative healing methods are much more than just temporary or half measures."
"We have been taught to "just eat a balanced diet." We have been taught wrong. The truth is natural healing works."
"I finish where I began: Jesus' statement "Come and see" provides both an invitation and a promise to all people everywhere. Come to Him; see Him as King of Kings and Lord of Lords; recognize in Him the great Messiah who will come again with healing in His wings, to set His people free. He will wrap you about in the cloak of His redeeming love, and your life will be changed forever."
"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."
"Be the cure. Don't look outside yourself for it."
"There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs."
"Inside of us is a place that is all-knowing, all mighty, which is a fragment of God. Nourishing, healing elements with in us. There is a spark in each one of us."
"Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open."
"Come give us a taste of your quality."
"When you are going through hell, don't stop."
"The most wonderful inspirational chemistry we can use on another is the gift of our love and acceptance. Devoted and unquestioned love has a magic creative power."
"Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world."
"Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless. And lonely is healing if you make it."
"The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair."
"Humans need fantasy in order to be human."
"Winter is the time of love and of taking the light within."
"What is essential does not die but clarifies."
