“We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body. This imprint has ongoing consequences for how the human organism manages to survive in the present. Trauma results in a fundamental reorganization of the way mind and brain manage perceptions. It changes not only how we think and what we think about, but also our very capacity to think.”
― 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
“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“We must say of the universe that it is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects. ”
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“And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.”
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“A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.”
― Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
― Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
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