"You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again."
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"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."
"I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself."
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world."
"If you don't do your dance, who will?"
"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."
"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."
"Never run away from anything. Never!"
"Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers."
"There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words."
"The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America - our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal."
"Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious part of a pattern."
"So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly."
"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."
"And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone."
"Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
"Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices."
"Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we are the same. Indeed the main spiritual question is not, "What difference do you make?" but "What do you have in common?" It is not "excelling" but "serving" that makes us most human. It is not proving ourselves to be better than others but confessing to be just like others that is the way to healing and reconciliation."
"Change, like healing, takes time."