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the process of healing—a word that, at its root, means “returning to wholeness”
The meaning of the word “trauma,” in its Greek origin, is “wound.”
traumatic memory as being held in “automatic actions and reactions, sensations and attitudes … replayed and reenacted in visceral sensations.”
“Trauma is perhaps the most avoided, ignored, belittled, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering.”
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“Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight,” wrote the psychologist Rollo May.12 Trauma robs us of that freedom.
the world we believe in becomes the world we live in.
Our beliefs are not only self-fulfilling; they are world-building.
“An unexamined life is not worth living.
“They live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them.”
personality as a recurring phenomenon than a fixed or permanent one, much like the way individual movie frames projected at rapid speed create the optical illusion of a single, continuous narrative.
“species-atypical,” a sobering idea when you think about it: no other species has ever had the ability to be untrue to itself, to forsake its own needs, never mind to convince itself that such is the way things ought to be.
their authentic selves and their work personas being at diametric odds.
their true thoughts, feelings, desires, and needs at the office door, only to retrieve them at day’s end as one would a parked car. For the “sham” to be sustainable, these
I have wondered how it is that so many good people can be hypnotized into compliance with the indefensible.
mechanism to acculturate us to accept as normal what is inimical to ourselves and to the world we inhabit; it is certainly not an inborn inclination. Somehow the system’s values and expectations get under the skin, to the point where we confuse them with ourselves.
“capitalism is failing to produce what was promised, but is delivering on what was not promised—inequality, pollution, unemployment, and most important of all, the degradation of values to the point where everything is acceptable and no one is accountable.”
