Truth, Love, Patience, Perseverance

Truth, like love and sleep, resents

Approaches that are too intense. W.H. Auden

What is critical is that we - at our own pace - learn to tolerate feeling what we feel and knowing what we know. This may take weeks or even years.

Authenticity is worth a lifetime of wise, compassionate practice. Perhaps that's what it's all about - starting out lost, but finding our way back home to who we truly are?

Bessel Van Der Kolk. “The Body Keeps the Score. Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.” Penguin Books, 2015.

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