“Each of us is shaped by the truth of our natures.
Von to Silver”
Source: Etched in Bone
“In various paradigms of practice, we have called these protectors "defenses" or "resistances", as though they were objects that needed to be moved out of the way. This is understandable, because we see that these parts of ourselves sometimes cause injury if we view them only from the outer perspective, without opening to the ways they are sheltering our inner world.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“You don't have to give all your savings to some charity to make this world a humane and just place, rather you just need to give a little hand whenever and wherever you see someone in need.”
Source: Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law
“Maybe you've thought that as a Christian you have to smile and pretend to be okay when someone asks you how you are doing. Perhaps you think that if you're grieving, then you're dishonoring God. This isn't so.”
Source: Being There: How to Love Those Who Are Hurting
“Some people may harrumph and grumble, 'Generation Snowflake!', but what is the harm in trying to make an individual's life less stressful through a single simple action?”
Source: I'm a Joke and So Are You: Reflections on Humour and Humanity
“Windmills put the wind to work. Similarly, you
can set up an anger mill, which will put your an-
ger to work, drawing the living waters of compas-
sion and creativity from the depths of your heart
to help all those around you.”
Source: Renewal: A Little Book of Courage and Hope
“As a society, I urge us to move past questions of what we could have done and focus on what can we could do now.”
Source: Self-Preservation
“Increasingly we come to understand that any difference between human and nonhuman primates does not necessarily show humans in a complimentary light.”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“If we can approach these implicit arisings as a gift rather than an attack, as an opening towards healing, we may be able to help our people get into relationship with their implicit world in a more compassionate and collaborative way.
Perhaps we can begin with considering these memories, no matter how challenging, to be messengers of life-giving truth.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“Grasping the situation is never enough to understand what a person might be undergoing. If one’s own heart is locked, they are as good as deaf to people’s true sentiments. One’s heartbeat speaks the loudest.”
Source: Galaxy Pirates