Healing means accepting all parts of ourselves, not just the parts we like, but all of us.
Interpretation
Healing involves embracing every aspect of ourselves, including the parts we may not love.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance in the healing process. It suggests that true healing requires us to acknowledge and accept both our strengths and our flaws, rather than just focusing on the positive aspects of ourselves. By doing so, we can achieve a more holistic understanding of who we are and foster a deeper sense of self-love and wholeness.
In practice
In a therapy session discussing personal growth and healing.
Be grateful for what you do have, and you will find it increases. I like to bless with love all that is in my life right now-my home, the heat, water, light, telephone, furniture, plumbing, appliances, clothing, transportation, jobs-the money I do have, friends, my ability to see and feel and taste and touch and walk and to enjoy this incredible planet.
Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.
Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.
Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into yesterday's mental garbage to create today's experiences?
Don't settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities you really want in the relationship. Develop those qualities in yourself and you will attract a person who has them.
You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
Knowing what to say, in the right way - at the perfect moment - can mean the difference between a world-class life and an average one.
Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.
I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.
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