Jeff Mangum Quotes

Treatment originates outside you; healing comes from within.

To heal from the inside out is the key.

Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance.

When I say 'art healed me,' it really healed me!

I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to detox. Not only from alcohol, sex, and drugs, but from needy leeches who looked to swab me with their sores. Detox from my own needy lechery. Had to locate the center wound and cauterize. Undo the original sin, the origin of my sickness...Had to learn to replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, with Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction.

Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.

To me, healing means you have to recognize there is a wound and you try to understand what the sources of the wound are, which means you try to tell a story about how it came to be. So you have to engage in some historical interpretation.

Forgiveness means accepting what is or what has been and becoming willing to see it differently. You cannot un-hear what you have heard or un-see what you have seen. What you can do is stop believing that what occurred has somehow left you broken, damaged and wounded. While forgiveness ain’t easy, it’s the most important inner work you can do within your mind and heart.

There are some things that require no work, and healing is one of them.

Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.

I went through some stuff. And I got very depressed at times. It was like a marriage breaking up suddenly, violently, quickly. And I was just trying to figure out what happened. When we started putting this tour together, I started to feel better almost immediately. And then this there is this, there is almost no better antidote to what I"ve just been through than to do this every night.

We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.

Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?

Healing begins where the wound was made.

Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

Look at yourself as someone who is reaching for healing, and at the complexity of what needs to be healed. Do not think that you exist alone without other human beings of equal complexity.

The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best. It's the power from on high that comes down into the world, that wells up from the rock-bottom worst of the world like a hidden spring. Can you believe it? The last, best thing is the laughing deep in the hearts of the saints, sometimes our hearts even. Yes. You are terribly loved and forgiven. Yes. You are healed. All is well.

I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And then there is the question on which so much depends, of how we react to the damage: whether we admit it or repress it,and how this affects our dealings with others.Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it;some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and there are those whose main concern is to avoid further damage to themselves, at whatever cost. And those are the ones who are ruthless, and the ones to be careful of.

All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.