Healing is not only a matter of the body, healing is a balm for the heart, mind, and spirit. As Hubert Humphrey once said, “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”🌱 Whether through a kind word, an open heart, or a gentle gesture, the path to wholeness begins in connection.

What is healing, but a shift in perspectives? ~ Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast

Slowing down is probably the most important thing we can do for healing to take place— and it only takes place in the present. ~ Barbara Joseph

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. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen, Healing and the Mind

A painful time in our life is what I call a healing crisis. We are letting go of something old and opening to something new. ~ Shakti Gawain

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, / The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, / And only tears can heal. ~ Oscar Wilde

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason—it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process. ~ Richard Gere

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal. ~ A Course in Miracles

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again? ~ Rosa Parks

Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain. ~ O. Carl Simonton

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. ~ Wendell Berry

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. ~ Hippocrates

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. ~ Eugene O’Neill, Great God Brown

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

I create art for the healing of all mankind. ~ Yayoi Kusama, Bomb, Winter 1999