The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van der Kolk

“The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.”

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. . . . Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

Our bodies are the texts that carry the memories and therefore remembering is no less than reincarnation.

Of course, when people don’t know who they are, they can’t possibly see the reality of the people around them.