Diminished Quote by Sharon Salzberg Download Open image ““When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.”” — Sharon Salzberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Believe Wounding Diminished Healing Healing-trauma Heartbreak Storytelling Trauma Whole world World Diminished Wounding Wounding Story
“The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
“A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“Violence does not always take physical form, and not all wounds gush blood.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We go through so much trauma in this world. At least we get to die.” — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
“We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once… — Candace Fleming Copy Share Image
“So often we blunder in the dark, not sure if we are helping others or harming them, while the truth remains as elusive and… — Tai Moses Copy Share Image
“While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“But, no one can tell without cease our human story, and so we lose, lose” — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Our wounds are not a measure of one individual’s sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others.” — Lynn C. Tolson Copy Share Image
“Maybe story is just for the assembling of things -- history, imagination, fact -- without which . . . our lives will dissipate, losing meaning and coherence.” — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired into our neurological and emotional network.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we open our hearts to the breadth of our experiences, we learn to tune into our needs, unique perceptions, thoughts & feelings” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“As we explore new ways of loving and being loved by others, we need to equip ourselves with open, pliant minds; we need to… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
In city after city, newspaper after newspaper has diminished its staff of critics, sometimes to zero. Film and T.V. critics have been dropped and… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I'm going to say this as an ethereal effect, not something that people are necessarily aware of while it's happening, but my theory is… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
“I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
It's quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn't loud music. A live event that enables… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving ‘through’ life… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity… — Earl Blumenauer Copy Share Image
Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished. — Grandmaster Flash Copy Share Image
