Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.

Suffering is to the heart and soul as tears are to the eyes, cleansing and expelling toxicity from the inner system. When we do not allow ourselves to feel appropriate pain, we move into a sort of non-experience. We watch life rather than live it; we look but never get too close.

There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others.

Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free.

We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed with theirs. Humans cannot move at the same rate as machines. When we attempt to, we lose contact with our own humanness.

All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.

Shame is quicksand on the path to soul.