Quotes on Spiritual Healing

Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.

Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.