An Unacknowledged Trauma Is Like

I Sincerely Believe That We Not Only Have The Right To Know What Is Good And What Is Evil; We Have The Duty To Acquire That Knowledge If We Hope To Assume Responsibility For Our Own Lives And Those Of Our Children. Only By Knowing The Truth Can We Be Set Free.

The True Opposite Of Depression Is Not Gaiety Or Absence Of Pain, But Vitality: The Freedom To Experience Spontaneous Feelings.

Problems Cannot Be Solved With Words, But Only Through Experience.

He Has Given Ample Evidence Of Qualities Hardly Any Other Living Statesman Has Demonstrated To The Same Degree: The Courage To Look Facts In The Face And To Seek Flexible Solutions, Respect For Others, Give-and-take In Dialog Situations, Absence Of Hypocrisy, A Complete Absence Of Grandeur In The Conduct Of His Personal Life. He Has Never Been Driven By Blind Self-assertion To Make Absurd Decisions.

The Abused Child Goes On Living Within Those Who Have Survived Such Torture, A Torture That Ended With Total Repression. They Live With The Darkness Of Fear, Oppression, And Threats. When All Its Attempts To Move The Adult To Heed Its Story Have Failed, It Resorts To The Language Of Symptoms To Make Itself Heard. Enter Addiction, Psychosis, Criminality.