In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.
Few people can fail to generate a self-healing process, when they become genuinely involved in healing others.
If we are going to find reconciliation, it can’t be based on one group blaming the other. You can’t have one group feeling guilty and another group feeling defensive. You can’t have one side feeling shame and the other group feeling anger.
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time.
It's as if I'm taking away his pain and he's taking away mine.
Every time we help an animal, we are healing ourselves, over and over.
But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
An apology offered and, equally important, received is a step towards reconciliation and, sometimes, recompense. Without that process, hurts can rankle and fester and erupt into their own hatreds and wrongdoings.
I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.
All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it for ourselves.
