Quotes About Scarring

Historical records show that smallpox was a human scourge for thousands of years. The virus produces high fever, severe back pain and scarring eruptions of flat red spots on the skin that turn into pustules and then into scabs - a two-week process during which the disease is highly contagious.

So when we make contact with the domain of being in the meditation practice, we are already, in a profound sense, beyond the scarring, beyond the isolation and fragmentation and suffering we may be experiencing.

Applied externally, it gives "almost instant relief of pain, and rapid healing," she says. At least in burns of the first and second degree it will prevent vessication, inflammation and scarring.