"As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself."
- Bessel A. van der Kolk
"While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can be revealed."
"Moses, without any mercy, breaks all bruised reeds, and quenches all smoking flax. For the law requires personal, perpetual and perfect obedience from the heart, and that under a most terrible curse, ..."
- Richard Sibbes
"Caring about a person is like praying to a doughnut in the darkness."
- Crispin Best
"BE the light you already are."
- Sheri Bessi
"The mind is the reality. You are what you think."
- Alfred Bester
"Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in a..."
"Generally the rational brain can override the emotional brain, as long as our fears don’t hijack us. (For example, your fear at being flagged down by the police can turn instantly to gratitude when th..."
"I'm not a robot. I'm a freak of the universe ... a thinking animal ... and I'm trying to see my way clear through this morass."
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
- Malcolm Forbes