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Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

by Bono

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“When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK

tags: authenticity, candor, care-taking, grief, hope, love, pain, resilience, shame, support

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“Don’t families stay together?” “Not necessarily,” he told me. “Earth ties have less meaning here. Relationships of thought, not blood, are what count.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

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“Many gnostics, on the contrary, insisted that ignorance, not sin, is what involves a person in suffering.”
― Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels

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“It is one thing to process memories of trauma, but it is an entirely different matter to confront the inner void—the holes in the soul that result from not having been wanted, not having been seen, and not having been allowed to speak the truth.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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“Have you hidden who you really are from those around you? Have you hidden how you are changing or aging from those around you? Have you hidden your needs and then become angry because they were not being met? “I hid myself.” You can’t have genuine friendships if you hide your true self. If you hide, then your friends will love what you do and not who you are! Suppose that for some reason you can no longer “do what you do.” Does anyone love you just because you are you? Have you revealed the “real you” to anyone else? True friendship and intimacy are achieved when you feel so comfortable around others that you can be yourself. Stop hiding yourself. If you don’t, you may lose your true self and become the lie you pretend to be!”
― T.D. Jakes, T.D. Jakes Speaks to Men, 3-in-1

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