Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
As we’ve seen, the essence of trauma is feeling godforsaken, cut off from the human race.
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Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.
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Desire is the essence of a man.
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I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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I always carry a good lipstick with me, like MAC in Ruby Woo. It has a matt finish, the essence of that vintage glamour look.
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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas.
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These humiliations are the essence of the game.
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The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.
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The human race is almost addicted to war. It's like we just can't stop.
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All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.
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What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.
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I thought Essence had a lot more points. She seemed more active.
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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
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And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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Flowers are always more serious than they appear.
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As we’ve seen, the essence of trauma is feeling godforsaken, cut off from the human race.
