If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

Stephen Levine
About This Quote

In this quote, Dr. Wayne Dyer explains that healing is a process of allowing pain to enter your awareness but not being overcome by it. In other words, it’s a process of letting go of the past and accepting the present. Such compassion, forgiveness and acceptance are what allow us to heal from the pain of the past.

Source: A Year To Live: How To Live This Year As If It Were Your Last

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