Amal Katrib

“Travel back to oneself… I had always imagined that the word referred to forward linear travel… now I wonder if the trajectory might not be circular; you spiral around and, somewhere behind where you were, you come upon your former self, a self that is somehow changed. You’re a child again, yet not exactly: a creature who possesses something you once possessed—innocence, perhaps, or courage or joy—but who is equipped this time around to hold on to whatever it was you lost.”
― Robert Leonard Reid, Arctic Circle: Birth and Rebirth in the Land of the Caribou

“What I’ve learned from talking to so many victims of traumatic events, abuse, or neglect is that after absorbing these painful experiences, the child begins to ache. A deep longing to feel needed, validated, and valued begins to take hold. As these children grow, they lack the ability to set a standard for what they deserve. And if that lack is not addressed, what often follows is a complicated, frustrating pattern of self-sabotage, violence, promiscuity, or addiction.”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity.
It is an unreliable horse, and blind into the bargain. Woe to the driver who falls asleep!”
― Albert Schweitzer, Reverence For Life

“Modernity had brought comfort and wealth, but it drowned out the music of creation’s heartbeat.”
― Robert Leonard Reid