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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The reason people lose their healing, is because they begin questioning if God really did it.
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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 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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I wrote Collateral Beauty on my own. I didn't get paid to write it. I didn't sell it as a pitch. It was an idea I had that I really, really felt needed to be in script form before showing it to anyone in the industry because of the uniqueness of the idea, and the weirdness of the idea, to be frank.
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What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
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I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.
