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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In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.
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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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There is no sin or transgression, pain or sorrow, which is outside of the healing power of His Atonement.
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When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their land and valuables, and respecting almost nothing about the native cultures. They lost the wisdom of the indigenous peoples-wisdom about the land and connectedness to the great web of life...We have another chance with all these refugees. People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America.
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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I feel very connected to poets across the country.
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Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.
