Scott Shaw

“Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror