Wisdom
Quotes - You are never alone
“Every
form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window.
And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire
universe from there.”
―
Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You
“In
the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
―
Desiderius Erasmus
“Maybe
you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless
foreplay.”
―
Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“A
man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but
saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Alexander
Pope
“You
are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.”
―
Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
“I
am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.”
―
Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
“No,’
Nico said. ‘Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that’s
the trick.’ As soon as he said it, Nico realized he could’ve been talking about
himself. He decided not to bring that up.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
“They'll
say you are bad
or perhaps
you are mad
or
at least you
should
stay undercover.
Your
mind must be bare
if
you would dare
to
think you can love
more
than one lover.”
―
David Rovics
“The
first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls
of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe
and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells
the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each
of us.”
―
Black Elk
“The
ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain
violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the
meaning of the word unspeakable.
Atrocities,
however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny
atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled
with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told.
Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are
prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing
of individual victims.
The
conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them
aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. People who have
survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional,
contradictory, and fragmented manner that undermines their credibility and
thereby serves the twin imperatives of truth-telling and secrecy. When the
truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery. But far too
often secrecy prevails, and the story of the traumatic event surfaces not as a
verbal narrative but as a symptom.
The
psychological distress symptoms of traumatized people simultaneously call
attention to the existence of an unspeakable secret and deflect attention from
it. This is most apparent in the way traumatized people alternate between
feeling numb and reliving the event. The dialectic of trauma gives rise to
complicated, sometimes uncanny alterations of consciousness, which George
Orwell, one of the committed truth-tellers of our century, called
"doublethink," and which mental health professionals, searching for
calm, precise language, call "dissociation." It results in protean,
dramatic, and often bizarre symptoms of hysteria which Freud recognized a
century ago as disguised communications about sexual abuse in childhood. . . .”
―
Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From
Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
