The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator.

Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced.

People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.

Love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places.

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipw

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.

Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

If you don't know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

I've gone through three changes- I thought I was a Christian then I was the devil then the third one, where I know who I am you know I feel like I'm an alien.