Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
IFS recognizes that the cultivation of mindful self-leadership is the foundation for healing from trauma.
Quotes to Explore
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Save the rainforest for your loved ones
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This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!
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For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain.
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Because: Love Never Dies, What is Within is More Important than What is Without, The Best is Not Always the Most Obvious and Once You've Loved Truly, Thor, then You Know the Way.
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When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
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As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself.
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Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were born the liberators of the region, and they said before and after that process we have a culture of political action. We are not in despair. That's the image broadcast to abroad.
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Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.
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We live in a culture eager to make truth a boutique experience as malleable as our personal tastes require.
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Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.
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If you've had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it. You are bound to want a player at some stage who is represented by this guy and you will have to try to work around the personality of the agent. You tend to work out what makes them tick, what they respond to. You have to have tactical plans to get a deal over the line.
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To people who are reliving a trauma, nothing makes sense; they are trapped in a life-or-death situation, a state of paralyzing fear or blind rage. Mind and body are constantly aroused, as if they are in imminent danger. They startle in response to the slightest noises and are frustrated by small irritations. Their sleep is chronically disturbed, and food often loses its sensual pleasures. This in turn can trigger desperate attempts to shut those feelings down by freezing and dissociation.
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
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Now, I want to remember all this. My life has known days of innocence when I had only to close my eyes in order not to see.
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IFS recognizes that the cultivation of mindful self-leadership is the foundation for healing from trauma.
