Shrouk

“قد علمتني النَّارُ التي اكتويت بها، واكتوتْ بها أمتى التي أنتسب إليها : أنَّ إقحام العبثِ على الجِدّ، وتغليب الهوى على العقل، لا يُفضيان إلا إلى الضياع والهلاك والمهانة وذلِّ الأبد!”
― محمود محمد شاكر, نمط صعب ونمط مخيف

“Desensitization to our own or to other people's pain tends to lead to an overall blunting of emotional sensitivity”
― Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“Bessel van der Kolk: “Trauma is when we are not seen and known.”
― Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

“I remember being surprised to hear this distinguished old Harvard professor confess how comforted he was to feel his wife’s bum against him as he fell asleep at night. By disclosing such simple human needs in himself he helped us recognize how basic they were to our lives. Failure to attend to them results in a stunted existence, no matter how lofty our thoughts and worldly accomplishments. Healing, he told us, depends on experiential knowledge: You can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral dimensions. Our”
― Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma