Merle Shain Quotes

Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.

What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. What you do for yourself, you’re doing for others, and what you do for others, you’re doing for yourself.

Be the love you seek.

The main reason for healing is love.

I know how hard it is to live your life with your wounds exposed to heal other people

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

You have to give a wound time to heal and think of other people's feelings.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.

Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

In me soul, I'm gentle.

You have to work on forgiveness and love, and that includes your own self.

I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal.

I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.