William Everson Quotes
Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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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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Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.
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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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In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.
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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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Meditation is key. It's a crazy world we live in. Everything is happening so fast in our world, so to take a moment and clear the mind and just be totally present is so healing. I want to meditate more.
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God put me on this earth to bring souls back to the Kingdom of God. You don't need to pray ten times a day - you just need hope. My music is going to stop war; it's the healing music. I see myself in Brazil, in Syria, in Darfur, and places where they really need hope.
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When I walk on stage, it's the 'healing floor.' No matter how bad I'm hurting, I get out there and do it.
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When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.
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Music is universal; it's healing.
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Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.
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Theirs is no vulgar sepulchre-green sodsAre all their monument, and yet it tellsA nobler history than pillared pilesOr the eternal pyramids.
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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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I had great cameramen like Rudolph Mate and Hal Mohr. They'd take an hour to light the proper closeup of me.
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[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.
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Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.
