Touch the body. Calm the mind. Heal the spirit.
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May you be at peace.
May your heart remain open.
May you awaken to the light of your own true nature.
May you be healed.
May you be a source of healing to all beings.
The Metta of the Buddha
To heal is to unify the physical, emotional,
intellectual, social and spiritual selves into
an integrated and harmonious whole.
To cure is to eliminate a
demonstrable disease process.
One can be healed
without being cured.
Bruce Hopkins, LMT
No single therapeutic agent can be compared
in efficiency with this familiar but perfect tool...
the human hand. If half as much research
had been expended on the principles
governing manual treatment
as upon pharmacology,
the hand would be esteemed today on a par
with drugs in acceptability and power.
J. Madison Taylor, M.D. 1908
A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul
and sings it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Anonymous
Happiness is a not a destination, but the journey.
Dealing with illness is both destination and journey.
Medicine is concerned with the quality of the destination.
Massage is concerned with the quality of the journey.
Bruce Hopkins
Touch was never meant to be a luxury.
It is a basic human need. It is an action
that validates life and gives hope to both
the receiver and the giver The healing of
touch is reciprocal..
Irene Smith
Some say, after we have mastered
the wind, the waves. the tides and gravity,
we shall harness for God the energies of love.
Then for the second time in history of the world,
man will have discovered fire.
Jesuit Philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Deep peace of the rising star to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the rolling wave to you.
Deep peace of the gentle earth to you.
Deep peace of the bright blue sky to you.
Deep peace of the gentle breeze to you.
Deep peace of the Son of Peace to you.
May peace fill your soul and make you whole.
Saint Columbia
May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude
and reverence to the human condition.
Mahatma Gandhi
You can complain because roses have thorns.
Or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
Ziggy
Our prime purpose in life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
The Dalai Lama
You don't get to choose how you are going to die.
Or when.
You can only decide how you are going to live.
NOW!
Joan Baez
A happy person is not a person in a
certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit .
Aristotle
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
The Buddha
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tzu
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
M Kathleen Casey
Whether we think we can or cannot, we are right.
Henry Ford
If you see what you do each day as your way
of loving the world and helping it heal,
then life gets to be a lot different.
The difference between burning up
and burning out is the difference between
loving what you are doing and not loving it.
Bernie Siegel, MD
The true voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new
landscapes but in seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
with the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
Throw off the bow lines, sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade-winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
...science is confirming what we know in our
hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon
put it," massage is medicine."
George Howe Colt
Perhaps we are too embarrassed or to frightened of the
consequences of showing that we actually care.
But why not risk it anyway? Begin, today.
Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness,
with no expectation of reward or punishment.
Safe in the knowledge that one day someone,
somewhere might do the same for you.
Princess Diana
It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important.
You have to do the right thing....
You may never know what results come from your action.
But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is no profit in curing the body if in the
process we destroy the soul.
Samuel Golter, City of Hope
Eternity is not the hereafter..... this is it.
If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere.
Joseph Campbell
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life
that no man can sincerely try to help another
without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of a happy life is to enjoy
the passing of every hour.
Unknown
The real hope is not in something we think we can do,
but in God, who is making something good out of it
in some way we cannot see.
Thomas Merton
We serve life, not because it is broken,
but because it is holy.
Mother Theresa
It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life;
then the physical benefits come.
Bernie Siegel, MD
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life,
to mind your own business,
and to work with your hands.
1 Thessalonians 4:11 (NIV)
Happiness in not a destination,
but a means of traveling.
Unknown
You may not know that the world needs you,
but it does. For no one else can smile your smile,
say your piece, shine your light....
you are unique and you alone can fill your place.
If you were not here to shine your light,
what would happen to pilgrims passing
by your empty place in the darkness,
without your light to help them on their way?
You may not know that the world needs you, but it does.
Inspired by an Old Poem
'To be at peace' does not mean to be in a place
where there is not noise, trouble and hard work.
It means to be in the midst of those things,
and still be calm in your heart.
Unknown
live with intention,
walk to the edge,
listen hard,
practice wellness,
play with abandon,
laugh,
choose with no regret,
continue to learn,
appreciate your friends,
do what you love,
live as if this is all there is.
Mary Anne Radmacher
People are like stained glass windows:
they sparkle and shine when the sun's out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed
only if there is light within.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Though no one can go back
and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now
and make a brand new ending.
Carol Bard
Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson
Massage soothes the body, easing mind and spirit.
Mind and spirit, in turn, remind the body of its
God given power to self-heal..
Bruce Hopkins
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
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And, a final thought for the end of life....
I forgive you.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you.
Goodbye.
Anonymous
