When I'm triggered, I think, 'This will last forever' or 'What if this lasts forever?' I get thoughts about how I should give up, run away, hide, protect myself. These thoughts, I cannot change. What I can change is how I respond to them. Will I unconditionally believe these ideas, or will I accept them as side effects of the temporary experience of pain? Will I act on each thought that arises in the burning fire, or will I hold myself gently and say, 'It'll be okay. I know it hurts. I love you'? My power lies in these choices.

Blessed are you who forgive.You will forever be happy.

Most of your healing journey will be about unlearning the patterns of self-protection that once kept you safe.

Mediate on the scriptures. It is the well spring of life.

You have no control of uncertainties! You can only control your life and your reaction to any event. May you find grace for patient endurance.

No matter how much you cry, the tears will dry. No matter how many nightmares, flashbacks, visions, or terrors you endure, they will pass. To weather these in order to find your true self and the happiness you deserve, that is not a risk. To waste the time you have in this body, never showing your soul to yourself or anyone else, living in fearful misery – that is really the most dangerous thing you can do.

I believe despite my doubts, belief gives me power reason takes away.

Emotions cannot evolve through intellectual comprehension; there must be direct access to them, access that allows them to go through a transformation from the plane in which they actually exist.

What happens to us are tiny matters compare to us response to any situation.

I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence.