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Stanley’s method confirmed that a metaphor of safety is manifest throughout the body and not merely in the social engagement system via the muscles of the face and head, or in the viscera via ventral vagal pathways. In all aspects of the
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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“But i cannot be worrying-worrying all the time about the *truth*. I have to worry about the truth that can be *lived with*.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“What is the truth of any life, Titch? I doubt even the man who lives it can say. You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering."
"No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it.”
― Washington Black
"No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it.”
― Washington Black
“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
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