Healing The Past Quotes
Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.
In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.
Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.
Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.
Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.
Other people may well not find it relevant that you have forgiven yourself, but you need to know that it is not for them anyway. Everything at the moment is wholly about you.
A broken and mended relationship turns out to be stronger than one that has never been broken, almost like how bones can become even stronger once broken and then healed.
Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done.
Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.
All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.
The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.
If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.
Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over.
The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.
Remember, forgiveness is not a millstone but a milestone!
Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.
This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.
We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday.
You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!
Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!
The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.
What you have suffered after you have healed will make perfect sense.
You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.
The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?
The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.
One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.
The repulsive actions of the person who abused you do not identify you.
Gracious words refresh, restore and revive the soul.
I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around.
Opportunity is another word for moving on. And it is a word choice, which is often the wiser. If the well gets poisoned, move to a meadow of merriment, where your hearts will echo the more.
It’s true: A slice of pound cake does wonders to thaw the coldest of days.
Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep.
It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound and more like a poultice.
The contortions of the gargoyles were the only therapy we had.
The way to free your feelings is to simply feel them.
What an inspiring book. Thank heaven Lee Thornton decided to share her remarkable life story with us. Lee's book is a blessing as well as a terrific read.
Let go of what cannot be changed and let love in.
Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up
Work hard. "Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased.
I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest.
Getting unstuck is a matter of choice. If you want flourish in life make a choice today to move into that reality. You can do it.
People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.
Behind every dancer there’s someone that broke her, a song that moved her, a moment that inspired her and a dance floor that healed her.