Michael Eigen > Quotes

“deep lines cut by trauma provide access to depths that are otherwise unreachable. In such instances, nourishment follows trauma to new places. We wish things could be otherwise … easier. But we have little choice when illumination shines through injury.”
― Michael Eigen, Flames from the Unconscious: Trauma, Madness, and Faith

“One opens oneself to reality (O) not because the latter is good or bad--it may be both and neither--but because it is. It is the only O we have and are, and we'd best learn to become partners with ourselves, with it.”
― Michael Eigen, The Sensitive Self