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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It was an honor to listen. Now I can carry it with me, right? And somebody heard him.
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The essence of a therapeutic relationship: finding words where words were absent before and, as a result, being able to share your deepest pain and deepest feelings with another human being. This is one of the most profound experiences we can have, and such resonance, in which hitherto unspoken words can be discovered, uttered, and received, is fundamental to healing the isolation of trauma—especially if other people in our lives have ignored or silenced us. Communicating fully is the opposite of being traumatized.
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The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the tension in the body and align ourselves with gravity, we take a new stand in life. This allows us to be at ease with ourselves and in harmony in our relationship to others and to our planet.
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IFS recognizes that the cultivation of mindful self-leadership is the foundation for healing from trauma.
