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

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.

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

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.

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

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

I don't want adventure.""I think you do. I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

That which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

I teach meditation and the pathway to enlightenment because I know that there are other people who, like i did a long time ago and continue to, want to climb that mountain to the highest light.

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.

The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour one.

I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.