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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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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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 greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence, spiritual awakening, and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the superstructure of happiness.
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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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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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I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.
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I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.
