A compendium of inspired and
inspiring quotations that speak to my heart...
Oncology
massage is sacred work. Thank you for your love made tangible.
Cancer Patient
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
Healing does not take place in the fast lane.
Angeles Arrien
Willie Sutton famously said he robbed
banks "because that's where the money is". That's why I do
oncology massage. Where else in life could I do so much good with so little
effort?
Bruce Hopkins, LMT
Touch the body. Calm the
mind. Heal the spirit.
Anonymous
Where there's surrender, synchronicity tends to
follow.
Cynthia Bourgeault
Freedom from illness is the foremost good fortune.
Contentment is the foremost wealth. Trust is the foremost kinship.
Seeing what actually exists is the foremost ease.
Dhammapada 15
Treat each person as you would an old friend.
The Dalai Lama
For fast acting relief, try slowing down.
Lilly Tomlin
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and
saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
We
think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands.
Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.
E.F. Schumacher
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our
hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of
our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in
sight.
Michael Bridge
Each of us has a fire in our heart for something. Find
yours and keep it lit.
Anonymous
A young man in India complained to his guru about
the pain in life. The guru sent him for salt. When he returned, the
guru mixed a handful in a glass of water and told him to drink. "How
does it taste?" asked the guru. "Bitter" was the answer. The guru
took him to a lake, mixed in a handful and told him to drink. "How
does it taste?" "Sweet." The guru explained, "Pain in life is like
salt in water. Do not strive for less pain. Strive for more life."
Unknown
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
When I focus on what is good today, I have a good
day. When I focus on what is bad today, I have a bad day. If I focus
on the problem, the problem increases. If I focus on the solution,
the solution increases.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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
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
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
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
Whether we think we can or cannot, we
are right.
Henry Ford
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
Happiness is a not a destination, but the journey. Dealing with cancer
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, LMT
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)
Touch me and you touch my heart. Touch
my heart and you touch my soul.
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
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, LMT
Celebrate life by living to the edge
of all possibility.
Judy Arntson, CMT
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
Forever is composed of nows."
Emily Dickinson
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And finally, a thought
for the end of life ..... "I forgive you. Please forgive me. Thank you.
I love you. Goodbye."
Anonymous