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The Covenant of Water

by Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author)

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“There's no weakness as great as false strength.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: abuse, childhood-trauma, false-self, psychology, self-esteem, self-knowledge, therapy, trauma

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“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.”
― Danielle Bernock, Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals

tags: captive, childhood-trauma, emotional-abuse, freedom, healing, healing-the-emotional-self, invalidate, lies, love, love-heals, marginalized, pain, ptsd, screams, screams-of-agony, silent-pain, trauma, validation

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“You must be humble, as it is one of the greatest [forms of] worship.”
― Ali Ibn Abi Talib A.S

tags: humbleness, inspirational

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“How strange is man that when he is afraid of something he runs away from it, but when he is afraid of Allah, he gets closer to Him.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

tags: inspirational, respect

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“In all periods and times when there were no prophets, there were individuals to whom Allah spoke in whispers through their conscience and intellect.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

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