“Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.” (p.97)”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.”
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“Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.”
― The Bell
― The Bell
“Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.”
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“emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.”
― The Sea, the Sea
― The Sea, the Sea
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