Book Title: Five Great Healers Speak Here
Author(s): Nancy, Esmond Gardner
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House

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________________ FIVE GREAT HEALERS SPEAK HERE They became members of a prayer group. Interestingly enough I began with the physical healing and ended up with true spiritual healing. I have a very great feeling and concern for this entire area of experience. So many human situations like family discords could be easily healed if people would only become involved in patient, silent prayer for the 'husband, the wife, the son, or the daughter. Too often, in our weak human nature, we so easily fall into judgment and condemnation of the one who “goes off the rails,” who is in a state of discord. How wonderful if, instead of trying to preach or force transformation, we could silently but lovingly, behold the perfection of God shining in the one for whom we have concern. Inevitably, then, divine transformations tend to unfold in the life and personality for his or her highest and eternal good. Loved ones in the midst of the scene are often the most important factors for such a transformation. Love is the only channel which can make that kind of healing possibility come true. What a challenge this is to family members because, after all, our lives are centered in the family unit and it is at this very point that we must find our highest and our best in expression. What is the most cooperative and ideal behavior on the part of the patient? In the end, beyond the pains, the sicknesses, the loneliness, and all the afflictions of man, must inevitably lie the great love factor that is the central flame of life itself. We all know about this love. We all recognize the need for being loved. When love flies out of our lives we are indeed out on a desert without water, marching in an arctic waste, or lost in the darkness. What is not always so clearly understood is that love, even in healing, has very little to do with what we can get from God or from people. It has very much to do with

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