Healing encompasses the same principles that apply to seeking a peaceful and fulfilling life. The following are a collection of quotes which capture the essence of the healing experience; with wildflowers from Yarri Creek.

"Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable".
~ Carl G Jung

"If the doors of perception where cleaned. Everything would appear to man as it is, infinite".
~ William Blake

"The more you know the less you understand"”
~Tao te Ching

“"Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one"”
~ Albert Einstein

"It is better to believe than to disbelieve;
in so doing, you bring everything to the realm of possibility"
~ Albert Einstein

“If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on,
he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.”
~ St. John of the Cross

"Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light".”
~ St. John of the Cross

“"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds".”
~ Albert Einstein

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path".
~ Buddha

"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off".”
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection"”.
~ Buddha

“"I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love.
It is the common fibre of life, the flame of that heats our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to God and to each other"”
~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly".”
~ Buddha

"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease".”
~ Buddha

“"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. Godhas given me no control over the moment following"”.
~ Mahatma Ghandi


“"The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union".”
~ St. John of the Cross

"When you are free from all attachments, when you are indifferent to success and failure, then you experience inner serenity". ~ The Bhagavad Gita

“"Too fidgety the mind's compass".”
~ RS Thomas


"Quiet the ongoing mental restlessness and turn the mind within....
Then you will see the underlying harmony in your life and in all nature"
~ Paramahansa Yogananda

“"Be Still and Know that I am God".
~ Psalm 46:10

“"Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything.
He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness"”.
~ Morgan Freeman

"Act without doing; work without effort".
~ Tao te Ching

"All that is required to realise the Self is to Be Still".”
~ Ramana Maharshi

"It is great wisdom to know how to be silent" . ”
~ St. John of the Cross

"“But the silence in the mind is when we live best, within listening distance of the silence we call God. It is a presence, then, whose margins are our margins; that call us over our own fathoms".”
~ RS Thomas

"I love my fellow man, because I see God in his face and in his form".
~ Dr. Andrew Taylor Still (Founder of Osteopathy)

"Be Still and Know"”
~ Dr. William G Sutherland (Founder of Cranial Osteopathy)

"I look towards silence. It is not as I had heard, a peak with natural footholds and crampons left by better climbers...there is only surrender".”
~ Pauline Materasso

"Surrender is giving oneself up to the origin of one's Being".
~ Ramana Maharshi

"“You don't surrender, you are surrendered".
~ Adyashanti

"We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can
- namely, surrender our will and fulfil God's will in us"”.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila

“"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it".
~ Albert Einstein

"“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them".
~ Albert Einstein

"When you see clearly the problem is solved".
~ Krishnamurti

"When the solution is simple, God is answering".
~ Albert Einstein

“"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth".”
~ Buddha

“"Truth is by its nature self evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear".”
~ Mahatma Gandhi



"Whatever you have in your mind - forget it; Whatever you have in your hand - give it; Whatever is to be your fate, face it!".
~ Abu Sa'id

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart".”
~ Mahatma Ghandi

"“Attentiveness is the heart's stillness, unbroken by any thought".”
~ Hesychios of Sinai

"“By waiting and by calm you shall be saved, in quiet and in trust your strength lies".”
~ Isaiah 30:15

"Faith is an oasis of the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking"
~ Kahlil Gibran

"“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift"” ~ Albert Einstein

"“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better".
~ Albert Einstein

"All things are linked together through cause and effect.
There is no such thing as an accident".
~ Swami Prajnanpad

"I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path".
~ Dalai Lama

“"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity".”
~ Hippocrates

"For every sin but the killing of Time there is forgiveness".”
~ Traditional Sufism

“"There is more to life than increasing its speed".
~ Mahatma Gandhi

“"Time only exists to stop everything happening at once".”
~ Albert Einstein

"The greatest prayer is patience".
~ Buddha

“"Happiness is a journey, not a destination".
~ Buddha

“"Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood"”.
~ Kahlil Gibran

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding".”
~ Kahlil Gibran

“"Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness".”
~ Ramana Maharshi

"Happiness is inherent to everyone and is not due to external causes".
~ Ramana Maharshi

"Divine joy is in everyone".”
~ Paramahansa Yogananda

“"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without"”.
~ Buddha

"“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.”
~ Albert Einstein

“"Space is the breath of art".”
~ Frank Lloyd Wright

"God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being".”
~ Genesis 2:7

“"For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth". 
~ Sanskrit Proverb

“"Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness".
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his ffairs as well as a tree does".
~ George Bernard Shaw

"Much like the local Yarri (Blackbutt), the human body draws vitality from a deep natural spring. It expands to create a natural boundary where we find our own shelter and strength. We then breathe and move in harmony with the elements".”
~ The Healing Tree

“"For what is it to die but stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from it's restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered".”
~ Kahlil Gibran

"Life lives and death dies. This body is only covering a life, this living being does not die. Ignorance of this makes us fear death".
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

“"You are the ocean of life, which has become the tiny wave of each life".” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

"When I say 'I am', I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus, I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is known. I have nothing to desire for I am complete forever". ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

"L“ook within yourself. Remember the infinite is everywhere".”
~ Paramahansa Yogananda

"I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God".
~ Sufi Proverb

"Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens man powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be. Stop making use of your mind and see what happens. Do this one thing thoroughly. That is all".
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

"There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide."
~ Rachel Carson