Healing is, by its nature, a knitting together, a restoration of wholeness. It requires that we see and accept lovingly all part of ourselves. Our ability to contain more, to expand our identity, to accommodate the multifarious aspects of ourselves is the basis of healing. When we see our quirks as defects, we undercut the integrative impulse. Every acknowledgment of a symptom needs an enlarging affirmation to follow, so we don't tighten the trap of limitation around our necks.
— Rudolph Ballentine, Radical Healing