Ben Vereen 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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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
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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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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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I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of victimization, sometimes by others, sometimes by the self, and sometimes by illness or misfortune, leading, like clockwork, to healing and redemption.
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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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I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.
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Nature is our chapel.
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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 have an Internet radio show where people can call in for healing.
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The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years.
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I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.
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Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.
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I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.
