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by Pema Chödrön
Reading for the 2nd time
read in July 2017
was surprised that I had reacted to the past trauma with such emotion. I didn’t realize then that our bodies carry our trauma.
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“The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we're left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.”
― Bridge of Sighs
― Bridge of Sighs
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“in Southie, most kids came out of the womb clutching a Schlitz and a pack of Luckies.”
― Small Mercies
― Small Mercies
“Human beings did so much damage to one another just by being alive. To the people they loved most, and to the ones they knew so little about that they could convince themselves they weren't even people.”
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“We drag our past behind us like a weight, still shackled but far enough back that we never have to see, never have to openly acknowledge who we once were.”
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“I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can.”
― Olive, Again
― Olive, Again
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