Healing Quotes - Page 34

• You are not the feelings or the thoughts or the contents of your awareness. None of these are who you are. You are the fullness of your Being, the substance of your presence.

  A. H. Almaas

  Feelings, Substance, Teens

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• ... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Saving, Experts

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.60, Modern Library

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• ...healing comes not from being loving but from being itself. It is not a case of being clear but of clear being. This healing is not about anything else but being itself. Nothing separate, no edges, nothing to limit healing. Entering, in moments, the realm of pure being, the gateless gate swings open- beyond life and death, our original face shines back at us.

  Stephen Levine

  Loving Life, Swings, Life And Death

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• Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.

  Anabel Jensen

  Conflict, Plates, Conflict Resolution

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• Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Future, Past, Tasks

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• Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Thinking, Matter, Language

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “National and international dimensions”, p.22, Transaction Publishers

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• How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Ambition, Voice, Giving

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• Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Ignorance, Imperfection, Decision

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• Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

  Phil McGraw

  Inspirational, Conflict, Disguise

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• Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

  John Stuart Mill

  Chance, Opinion, Conflict

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Thinking, Problem, Conflict

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• Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.

  Virgilia Peterson

  People, Conflict, Individual

  Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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• Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

  Pindar

  Truth, Men, Silence

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• It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

  Carl Rogers

  Business, Confusion, Elements

  "A Way of Being".

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• If it's mentionable, it's manageable.

  Fred Rogers

  Conflict, Ifs, Manageable

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• Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Our World, Individual Differences

  "3 Things That Happen to Your Life When You Stop Taking Things Personally" by Tara-Nicholle Nelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2016.

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• Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

  Mark Twain

  Use, Conflict, Has Beens

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• It isn't a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

  Anthony Weston

  Strong, Mistake, Views

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• I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Belief, Assumption, Conflict

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Turning to One Another (Large Print 16pt)”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Fighting, Different, Way

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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Mean, Imperfection, Patient

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• How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

  Gautama Buddha

  Attachment, Wonderful, Sticky

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• It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings

  M. Scott Peck

  Glory, Easy, Humans

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind

  Anagarika Govinda

  Character, Expression, Profound

  Anagarika Brahmacari Govinda (1976). “Creative meditation and multi-dimensional consciousness”, Quest Books

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• The power of the creative imagination is not only merely content with observing the world as it is, accepting a given reality, but is capable of creating a new reality by transforming the inner as well as the outer world

  Anagarika Govinda

  Reality, Creating, Imagination

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