The Healing Path Quotes

“As for those present who had been traveling this interior path for quite some time, I sensed in their questions and sharings that they were already in the midst of learning not to be surprised by the setbacks intermingled with the graced breakthroughs that occur on this healing path. On the path to eternal fulfillment, which never ends, we all die as beginners. As”
― James Finley, The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation

“the fleeting taste of realized freedom and liberation could become for him a light that illuminated the path, the way of life that sustained and deepened in his ongoing willingness to hand his life over to the care of the higher power that had accessed him and set his heart alight as he stood there with tears streaming down his face.”
― James Finley, The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation

“As I reflected on all this, it was clear to me that this man’s moment of deliverance was not the end of a journey but the beginning of a much longer one. For the habits of mind and heart formed in trauma, abandonment, and addiction are very strong. It was true that in the graced moment I have just described, he was a momentary mystic, momentarily set free from the tyranny of his suffering.”
― James Finley, The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation

“be at once a hospice and a maternity ward.”
― James Finley, The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation

“I was radicalized”
― James Finley, The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation

“The insight being that this is not the first time I have felt so utterly lost and unhappy.”
― James Finley, The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation

“To be honest with you, in some very deep way I do not want to live any more on this earth without Maureen.”
― James Finley, The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation

“in whose presence others are better able to experience the gift and miracle of who they really are deep down and who they are called to be, so that they in turn can pass on the contagious energy of healing to others. Amen. So be it.”
― James Finley, The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation

“same reflective manner, noting the lessons of healing and transformation that you have learned along the way.”
― James Finley, The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation

“monastery, where I was radicalized and transformed forever in God’s sustaining mercy.”
― James Finley, The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation

“To help you see your own life from this luminous perspective, I will lead the way by offering you in these reflections a kind of teaching memoir, in which I will trace out the lessons I have learned in my ongoing efforts to find my own way along the healing path.”
― James Finley, The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation

“do not have to live in a monastery to find our way into the deep healing and liberation that monastic life nurtures and protects.”
― James Finley, The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation

“the wisdom dimensions of the healing path of our unfolding lives through time can be best understood as the ways we are quickened from within, in often unexpected ways, by deepening intimations of what we have perhaps always known, hidden with Christ in God from before the origins of universe.”
― James Finley, The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation