“We stayed with the one who felt dead inside, acknowledging his protective value, even though we had no cognitive awareness of who and what he was sheltering ...
'What is this depression, this one who is so still, wanting to tell us?”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“The first step is the same for all of us: put down the cigarette, or your preferred nicotine-based weapon of choice. The next step, and the one after, and the one after that, for as long as it takes for the veil of illusion to lift – and lift it will, I promise you, if you give time time – is a walk in the park, compared to your life as a smoker. Just keep on walking. Trust yourself. Trust the process. Trust anything, but the lies your nicotine addiction is telling you.”
“When an artist leans heavily on form, there's a possibility they don't trust or understand the material. Sometimes layers can elevate a work, but some things are better served if they are merely allowed to exist.”
“The only way to stop the panic rising was to simply trust.”
Source: Discovering Eden Fruitarianism - An Autobiography - Volume One
“At moments of deep uncertainty, I find that I sometimes jump the tracks into taking control, and in those moments, if I can move back toward following, the process often finds its own feet again. All of this has gradually led me to believe that letting go of expectations about the outcome of therapy as much as possible gives the process the most room to show itself.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“The more you get closer to Jesus,
the more you trust Him of everything.”
“To assume the best about another is the trait that has created modern society. Those occasions when our trusting nature gets violated are tragic. But the alternative - to abandon trust as a defense against predation and deception - is worse.”
Source: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
“Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies. True friends help you move the bodies of those who turned out not to have been friends to begin with.”
Source: There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord
“Trust is the only reason the world ever functions as it should. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't, and I know that uncertainty is scary, but that's the only way you figure out who your closet people are.”
Source: The Right Swipe
“I think from now on, I will not trust anyone who isn't angry.”
Source: How to Suppress Women's Writing