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“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

tags: abuse, dark-secrets, knowing-oneself, not-knowing, repression, secrets, subconscious, suppression, survivors, trauma-memory, traumatized, unconscious

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“Whatever the final laws of nature may be, there is no reason to suppose that they are designed to make physicists happy.”
― Steven Weinberg, To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science

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“As we understand the world better, the idea that it has a transcendent purpose seems increasingly untenable.”
― Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

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“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
― Tal Ben-Shahar, Pursuit of Perfect

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“But supposing the world has become “filled up”, so to speak, with liberal democracies, such as there exist no tyranny and oppression worthy of the name against which to struggle? Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. And if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterized by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and prosperity, and against democracy.”
― Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man

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