Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
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My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
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There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.
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Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.
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For black and brown people, caring for ourselves and each other is not a neutral act. It is a necessary and radical part of the struggle to create a more just society. Our healing and survival are essential to the fight.
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In church, the music is for everyone. People are singing off tune, loud; they're not ashamed - it's for their healing. That's kind of just what I strive for, that feeling.
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It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
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When I designed 'Flower' I was thinking about making it a positive, almost like a self-healing experience. It's like therapy.
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I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
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This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.
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Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.
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It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn't happen on our schedule. It doesn't have a clock or a calendar.
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Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
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Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
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Hopefully, my administration will be known as a healing and unifying administration.
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I think of myself as a healing artist.
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When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'
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This year I just want to enjoy myself. I could give up tomorrow without having the slightest regret. I could keep away from this world for a year and then perhaps start to feel the desire to prove something to myself again.
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Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.
