#healing

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Hospitals should be arranged like night clubs: places where people go to celebrate life and heal with joy, rather than grim temples of fear.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

Outgrowing requires a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest appeared on the patient's horizon, and through this broadening of his outlook, the insoluble problem lost its urgency.

What if I should discover that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness—that I myself am the enemy who must be loved?

Through the creation of mandalas, the soul heals itself and restores its inner balance.

A healthy person does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Faith, Hope, Love, and Insight: these are the four great healing powers.

Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius; pay it and do not neglect it.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Self-detachment—the ability to laugh at one's own neurotic fears—is the first step toward psychological healing.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

A sorrow which has found physical expression in wholesome activity is already half conquered.

Tears are the nectar with which the soul waters its hidden blossoms.

Sorrow comes to an end only when there is no escape from it.

Love is the universal solvent that dissolves all hatred.

Forgiveness is the supreme medicine for a wounded heart.

Love is the nectar that cures all human division.

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life—no disgrace, no calamity—which nature cannot repair.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

If your heart is broken, rejoice! For the light enters through the fractures of the soul.

The physician who heals the spirit does not prescribe bitter herbs, but sweet songs of praise.

He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

If you love someone, you must be able to listen deeply. Deep listening is the kind of listening that helps relieve suffering.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

When we touch the earth with awareness, we heal ourselves and we heal the planet.

You listen without judging, without reacting, because you know that if you interrupt or argue, you will transform the session into a debate.

Darling, I am suffering, please help me.