I started capturing each and everything I learned on the web in Evernote since 2021 started. It’s better to capture what I’m learning so that when I look back a few years later, I can go back to my notes and see how far I have come. If you’ve been followed my work for a while or new to my work, I’d like to say that I find immense pleasure in sharing my learnings with you all.
This post highlights some of the fantastic quotes and contemplations on healing. I hope you enjoy this post as much as I did in creating it. A few years down the road, I can revisit this post and tap into my inner peace and tranquility.
Below, you’ll find musings from the masters such as Wayne Dyer, Anthony de Mello, Gabor Mate, Young Pueblo, Michael Ostrolenk, Rumi, and many others.
Now, let’s begin:
“Heal yourself, not just so you can thrive, but to ensure that people who cross your path in the future are safer from harm.” —Yung Pueblo
“The word healing comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for wholeness and the essential nature of trauma is that it’s a loss of wholeness. It’s the impact of what happened and how that’s manifesting as a disconnect right now in our lives, and how we can reconnect. A proper understanding of trauma actually says, This happened inside me, it’s with me in the present, and because it’s with me in the present, I can do something about it.” —Gabor Maté
“I am just saying it is so much more helpful to see every manifestation of what we call illness, whether physical or what we call mental, as a manifestation of a life, a life history and a multigenerational life history, in the context of a certain society. If we reflect on all that, we can be much more effective in helping people, no matter what their issues are. Biology rarely provides the full picture, least of all in what we call mental illness.” — Gabor Maté
“Trauma isn’t what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you.” — Gabor Maté
” I’m not going to ask you what you were addicted to, I often say to people, nor when, nor for how long. Only, whatever your addictive focus, what did it offer you? What did you like about it? What, in the short term, did it give you that you craved or liked so much?” — Gabor Maté
“I’ve had a lifelong interest in recognizing that we don’t have to be pushed by our culture and our family of origins. We can generate a sense of internal freedom to begin to design our own lives. We can learn to optimize ourselves mentally, emotionally and physically, as well as other aspects of ourselves.” — Michael Ostrolenk
A lot of people’s traumas, whether it’s sexual abuse, physical abuse, mental abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, or whatever happens to be, or even at scale, smaller versions of all those same things. For many people happens before they have a mental self sense, which means in practice that if you don’t work through their nervous system, you don’t work through their body. You can’t really help heal them or help themselves heal themselves through just cognitive behavioral work. Because it’s not just a thinking issue. It’s a physiological somatic issue. ” — Michael Ostrolenk
“I know you are tired but come, this is the way.
These pains you feel are messengers, listen to them” — Rumi
“Today I escaped the power of circumstance, or rather I cast all circumstance out — for it was not outside me — but within me, in my judgments.” — Marcus Aurelius
“The doorway to the higher purpose opens inward, and most of us spend the lifetime looking for it outside.” — Wayne Dyer
“Embrace Silence. Silence is not empty. Silence is full of answers. No matter how many times you cut silence into half, you only get silence. Silence is a way to know your true self.” — Wayne Dyer
“Everything passes, everything. If you seek thrills, get ready for sadness. These are the swings of the pendulum. One end of the pendulum swings to the other. Never “identify” with that feeling.” — Anthony de Mello
“I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow, and called out, “it tastes sweet, doesn’t it?” You’ve caught me – grief answered, and you have ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you you know it’s a blessing.” — Rumi
“Forgiveness feels like, we’re given a big pair of scissors to cut the tie and regain personal power. It starts with a choice and then becomes a process with no neat ending. One day you can forgive and the next you may hear the detail of what happened and feel angry all over again.” — Scarlett Lewis
“Look at where you were three/six months ago and compare to where you are now. Realizing that you have experienced growth/momentum may help ease the frustration that you’re not as far as you want to be. Most of us are not. However, none of us ever get it all done…none of us!” — Terri Lonowski
“Recognize that life itself is an incredible gift. It is a miracle that any of us are here. Sit with that for a moment. All of life is at any one moment on the fragile brink of non-existence. Behold the wonderment in the moment.” — Terri Lonowski
“Healing is the path. Healing is a journey. When you start to walk on this path, you will face fear, obstacles, and heartaches. Trust me—this is a fruitful journey. Along this journey, every person you touch will be healed, or at least get closer to having an awareness of their own trauma. The healing journey is not a comfortable one. You will confront yourself without filters. You might want to run away from yourself. Trust me—stick to the journey, get help, get therapy, get coaching, do something. I am sure that you will meet with yourself and you will love that. Then, you will enjoy that emptiness inside you, the way I am trying to be with that emptiness while writing this.” — my own thought
“The question is not why the addiction, but why the pain.” And the source of pain is always and invariably to be found in a person’s lived experience, beginning with childhood. Not only addiction is in the form of alcohol, drugs, porn, substances but also in the form of bad behavior to relieve from the pain. So, the question worth asking is why the pain, what’s the cause.” — Gabor Maté
“Whenever I feel emotional pain, it tells me something about myself I haven’t healed yet or come in contact with. Holding on to something is believing that there’s no better future. Letting go isn’t easy. It is tough. Letting go is believing that there could be a better future. In the process of letting go, you may find yourself holding on again and again. Letting go feels like a loss and then there is grieving. I am letting go of my fear of abandonment, fear of avoidance, fear of being dismissed. When I let go, I find my true self on the other side. On the other side, I meet my inner child who once had a desire for authenticity, secure attachment, and love. I am meeting with myself once again.” — my own thought
“Our journey is to find meaningful work. Our journey is to find a meaningful life. Most of us have been climbing the wrong mountain. Sometimes it seems like the harder we climb, the further we rise, the less we have. There’s a better way.” — Scott Shute
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