Thoughtful Quotes

This work is not about healing others.  
We can’t heal another human being.  
We can only heal ourselves
until our presence is healing.
--Irene Smith,
Founder, Service through Touch

Our hands are marvelous transmitters for loving-kindness.
                
I don’t believe that we take on another human being’s suffering.  I believe that what happens is that we find ourselves in an experience that simply opens us up to our suffering.                
--Irene Smith
Founder, Service Through Touch

The best way—the only way—to be truly healing  is to be fully present and to stay out of the way.--Nancy Keyes

If you cannot feed one hundred hungry people, then just feed one really well.         --Mother Theresa   (One of my favorites and in my room at the hospital)


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