Creativity Quote by Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono’s line lands like a soft provocation: self-help, but with the doors flung open. Coming from an artist whose career has lived at the intersection of intimacy and spectacle, “Healing yourself is connected with healing others” reads less like a greeting-card sentiment and more like a thesis for participatory art. Ono’s best-known works ask the audience to complete them - to cut, to wish, to imagine peace - turning private feeling into a public act. The quote carries that same circuitry: the self isn’t a sealed unit; it’s a node.

The intent is quietly political. Ono came of age alongside postwar trauma, global protest movements, and the media carnival around her and John Lennon. In that context, “healing” isn’t just therapy-speak. It’s repair after violence, after dehumanization, after the way a culture teaches people to harden. She’s arguing that inner restoration has external consequences, and vice versa: your nervous system is not separate from your neighborhood, your newsfeed, your family history.

The subtext pushes against the Western fetish for individual resilience. Ono implies that “working on yourself” without addressing the harms you pass along can become another form of selfishness, a privatized solution to public injury. At the same time, she sidesteps martyrdom: healing others doesn’t require self-erasure; it starts with recognizing how care travels. The sentence is short because it’s meant to be used - a conceptual instruction you can carry into relationships, activism, and art, where repair is rarely solitary and never purely symbolic.