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#1

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: obsession

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#2

“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”
― Virginia Woolf

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#3

“Why I Wake Early

Hello, sun in my face.

Hello, you who made the morning

and spread it over the fields

and into the faces of the tulips

and the nodding morning glories,

and into the windows of, even, the

miserable and the crotchety –

best preacher that ever was,

dear star, that just happens

to be where you are in the universe

to keep us from ever-darkness,

to ease us with warm touching,

to hold us in the great hands of light –

good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day

in happiness, in kindness.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: love, spirituality

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#4

“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave
and eats a bread it does not harvest.

Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero,
and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.

Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream,
yet submits in its awakening.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice
save when it walks in a funeral,
boasts not except among its ruins,
and will rebel not save when its neck is laid
between the sword and the block.

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox,
whose philosopher is a juggler,
and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking

Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting,
and farewells him with hooting,
only to welcome another with trumpeting again.

Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years
and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle.

Pity the nation divided into fragments,
each fragment deeming itself a nation.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet

tags: philosophy, religion, spirituality

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#5

“It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance”
― Charles Baudelaire

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#6

“Thanks be to God, Who gives us suffering
as sacred remedy for all our sins,
that best and purest essence which prepares
the strong in spirit for divine delights!”
― Charles Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book

tags: pain, suffering

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#7

“All I know is a door into the dark”
― Seamus Heaney

tags: darkness, poetry

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#8

“When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

tags: admiration, affirmations, afterlife, attitude, awake, awakening, blessings, confirmation, corruption, courage, curiosity, dedication, destiny, divine-guidance, dreams, earth, evil-people, expression, faithfulness, fate, feelings, finding-yourself, forget, forgiveness, freedom, friends, gifts, god, godliness, guidance, happiness, hate, haters, hatred, heart, heaven, holy, holy-spirit, honesty, imagination, independent, inspiration, inspire, journey, joy, kindness, knowledge, liars, life, life-lessons, living, love, loving-you, loving-yourself, lying, lying-to-yourself, motivation, motivational-quotes, optimistic, passion, peace, peace-of-mind, peaceful, peacemaker, people, philosophy, positive-thinking, power, power-of-words, quotes, self-respect, soul-searching, spiritual, spirituality, success, thankfulness, trash, treasure, trust, trusting-god, trustworthy, truth, value, vision, wisdom, words-to-live-by, worth

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#9

“The horror of the Hitler Experience was not that he perpetrated it on the human race, but that the human race allowed him to. The astonishment is not only that a Hitler came along, but also that so many others went along.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, The Complete Conversations with God

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#10

“The spirit of that human you call Jesus was not of this Earth. That spirit simply filled a human body, allowed itself to learn as a child, become a man, and self-realized. He was not the only one to have done this. All spirits are “not of this Earth.” All souls come from another realm, then enter the body. Yet not all souls self-realize in a particular “lifetime.” Jesus did. He was a highly evolved being (what some of you have called a god), and he came to you for a purpose, on a mission. To save our souls. In a sense, yes. But not from everlasting damnation. There is no such thing as you have conceived it. His mission was—is—to save you from not knowing and never experiencing Who You Really Are. His intention was to demonstrate that by showing you what you can become. Indeed, what you are—if you will only accept it. Jesus sought to lead by example. That is why he said, “I am the way and the life. Follow me.” He didn’t mean “follow me” in the sense that you would all become his “followers,” but in the sense that you would all follow his example and become one with God. He said, “I and the Father are One, and ye are my brethren.” He couldn’t have put it more plainly.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, The Complete Conversations with God

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#11

“But sixteen years without optimism had taken a heavy toll;”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

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#12

“the children of the hour of darkness were born, I’m afraid, in the midst of the age of darkness; so that although we found it easy to be brilliant, we were always confused about being good.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

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#13

“Is it possible to be jealous of written words?”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

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#14

“What is her name? I don't know. I know her eyebrows.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

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#15

“You should avoid doctors that prescribe potent prescription drugs as the first stage of treatment.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

tags: avoid, doctors, drugs, first, hypoxia, potent, prescribe, prescription, stage, treatment

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#16

“Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government.”
― Steven Magee

tags: affairs, being, colleagues, corrupt, corrupt-leaders, corrupt-politics, corruption, corruption-quotes, government, government-abuse, government-corruption, government-cover-ups, government-propaganda, government-quotes, government-regulation, governments, history, incompetent, internal, long, officers, police, police-brutality, police-corruption, police-officer, police-procedural, police-reform, police-service, police-state, policeman, policemen, protected

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#17

“If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers”
― Steven Magee

tags: aggression, agressive, cause, cause-and-effect, cause-injury, officer, officers, police, policeman, policemen, sheriff, study, studying, understand, understanding, understanding-others, violence, violent

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#18

“An insane mind can take you places a sane mind cannot go.”
― Steven Magee

tags: brain, cannot, go, illness, insane, mental, mind, places, sane, take

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#19

“Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.”
― Billie Holiday

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#20

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

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#21

“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

tags: abuse, dark-secrets, knowing-oneself, not-knowing, repression, secrets, subconscious, suppression, survivors, trauma-memory, traumatized, unconscious

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#22

“The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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#23

“If your parents’ faces never lit up when they looked at you, it’s hard to know what it feels like to be loved and cherished. If you come from an incomprehensible world filled with secrecy and fear, it’s almost impossible to find the words to express what you have endured. If you grew up unwanted and ignored, it is a major challenge to develop a visceral sense of agency and self-worth.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

tags: abuse, fear, love, neglect, parental-abuse, parenting, ptsd, secrecy, self-esteem, trauma

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#24

“In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their bodies interact with the world around them. Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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#25

“In our studies we keep seeing how difficult it is for traumatized people to feel completely relaxed and physically safe in their bodies. We measure our subjects’ HRV by placing tiny monitors on their arms during shavasana, the pose at the end of most classes during which practitioners lie face up, palms up, arms and legs relaxed. Instead of relaxation we picked up too much muscle activity to get a clear signal. Rather than going into a state of quiet repose, our students’ muscles often continue to prepare them to fight unseen enemies. A major challenge in recovering from trauma remains being able to achieve a state of total relaxation and safe surrender.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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#26

“After trauma the world is experienced with a different nervous system. The survivor’s energy now becomes focused on suppressing inner chaos, at the expense of spontaneous involvement in their lives. These attempts to maintain control over unbearable physiological reactions can result in a whole range of physical symptoms, including fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and other autoimmune diseases. This explains why it is critical for trauma treatment to engage the entire organism, body, mind, and brain.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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#27

“One day he told me that he’d spent his adulthood trying to let go of his past, and he remarked how ironic it was that he had to get closer to it in order to let it go.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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#28

“Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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#29

“Sadly, our educational system, as well as many of the methods that profess to treat trauma, tend to bypass this emotional-engagement system and focus instead on recruiting the cognitive capacities of the mind. Despite the well-documented effects of anger, fear, and anxiety on the ability to reason, many programs continue to ignore the need to engage the safety system of the brain before trying to promote new ways of thinking. The last things that should be cut from school schedules are chorus, physical education, recess, and anything else involving movement, play, and joyful engagement.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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#30

“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 an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.” (p.97)”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

tags: avoidance, body, feelings, numb, numbness, sense-of-safety, trauma, traumatic, traumatized

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