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“Girls are genius at getting through sexual abuse. Often the only way to get through is not to feel. And that is exactly what these fantasy worlds allow: They give girls a place to go so they don't have to be present in their violated bodies. Brilliant.”
― Patti Feuereisen, Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse

tags: child-sexual-abuse, coping-mechanism, coping-strategies, depersonalization, dissociation, fantasy, numb, numbing-emotions, sexual-abuse

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“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth

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“Much of what is being taught is the acceptance of a “kinder, gentler suffering” that does not question the unwholesome roots of systemic suffering and the structures that hold it in place. What is required is a new Dharma, a radical Dharma that deconstructs rather than amplifies the systems of suffering, that starves rather than fertilizes the soil of the conditions that the deep roots of societal suffering grow in.”
― Angel Kyodo Williams, Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation

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“You can discard no one feeling and the full truth of an experience be revealed.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, Gift Of The Dreamtime: Awakening To The Divinity Of Trauma

tags: shamanism

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“The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy

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