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HEALING
"We
can never get a re-creation of community and heal
our society without giving our citizens a sense
of belonging."
-- Patch
Adams
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we
want to take people's success stories and re-write
the ''story'' of hunger. There are things that have
been working, and things we know can work. It may
once have seemed like a hopeless story, but we're
changing it to a hopeful one. This is healing on a
social level.
-- Bill
Ayres
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The
family. We were a strange little band of characters
trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste,
coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing
money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting
pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving,
laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common
thread that bound us all together.
--Erma Bombeck |
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“If
you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at
the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual
cure.”
-- Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
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The
pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and
healing
which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for
war.
-- Vera Brittain
The
power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into
folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love
moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout
history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized
as a valuable element in healing.
~ Larry Dossey |
I
see religion as a powerful positive healing force for
this nation and the world. But that force is blunted,
weakened, compromised inestimably, if we turn religion
into a tool for advancing political strategy; if we
make it a matter of how to win political office; if
we treat it as anything other than a sacred part of
life from which we ought to draw sustenance and values
and strength for living courageously as good citizens.
-- C.
Welton Gaddy |
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We’re
looking at the singular condition of poverty. All
the other individual problems spring from that condition...
doesn’t matter if it’s death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine,
instability, governance, corruption or war. All of
that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries
to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty,
not poverty itself.
-- Bob
Geldof
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"Forgiveness
does not equal forgetting. It is about healing the memory
of the harm, not erasing it."
-- Ken Hart
“We
have to heal our wounded world.
The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today
are a result of the alienation that people feel from each
other and their environment.”
-- Michael Jackson
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"...We
have an historic opportunity for a great global healing
and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent
activism with faith, courage, and determination, we
can bring this great vision of a world united in peace
and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality."
--
Coretta Scott King
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The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining
and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that
religion has a healing side as well as a killing side,
and that democracy is the consequence of conscience
-- Bill
Moyers |
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"To
increase your own healing ability, set your intention
for change with love. Take a long, slow, deep breath
and hold it while focusing on love. Go deeper into
love and see healing as happening now. See, feel and
experience the power of love plus intention as a powerful
change agent in your life."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
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“Daily
rituals for healing are part of becoming a loving,
calm person. You can set yourself free from unwanted
emotions and problems if you are willing to take the
time to do the work."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
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The
friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair
or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief
and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing,
not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness,
that is a friend who cares.
-- Henri Nouwen |
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"If
poverty is a disease that infects the entire community
in the form of unemployment and violence, failing
schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat
those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that
entire community."
-- Barack
Obama
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When
we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.
~ David Orr
"Forgiveness
offers the possibility of two types of peace: peace of mind
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the potential healing of old emotional wounds, and peace
with others --
the possibility of new, more gratifying relationships in
the future."
-- Kenneth I. Pargament & Mark S. Rye
The
most basic and powerful way to connect to another person
is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important
thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving
silence often has far more power to heal and to connect
than the most well-intentioned words.
-- Rachel Naomi Remen |
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In
our hectic, fast-paced, consumer-driven society, it's
not uncommon for people to feel overwhelmed, isolated,
alone, and even alienated. Many are re-discovering
the healing and empowering role that community can
bring to our lives. The sense of belonging we feel
when we make the time to take an active role in our
communities can give us a deeper sense of meaning
and purpose.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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Community
means strength that joins our strength to do the work
that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter.
A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace
where we can be free.
-- Starhawk
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It's
only when we imagine for ourselves what it would be
like to run from state terror, torture, rape, the destruction
of our homes and families that we can understand how
vital it would be to find a place that welcomed us and
tried to heal our wounds.
-- Emma
Thompson |
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The
Department of Peace would take a more human approach
to healing our society, looking not merely for ways
we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways
to create new friends. While the State Department
engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic
parallel. There is no department seeking to harness
the power of a nonviolent heart. -- Marianne
Williamson
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The
practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution
to the healing of the world. -- Marianne
Williamson
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"The
power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific.
It is as applicable to the problems that confront
us now, as to problems that confronted generations
in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so
much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual
immune system of humanity." -- Marianne
Williamson
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