project – Little Bristling Soul

For a woman, at the border, the sense that no one can comprehend the extent and intensity of her suffering is an understandable consequence of the sense of never having been known. She is saying to those around her, not ‘I want you to suffer as I have suffered,’ but “it is through my pain you shall know me.’

Dana Becker, Through the Looking Glass

from Blood Math by Peggy Phelan and Adrian Heathfield

from The Pain Scale by Eula Biss

Nina Boutsikaris

The Black Hole of Trauma by Bessel A. Van der Kolk: and Alexander C. McFarlane

Ariel Glucklich from Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul

Jenny Boully

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

Simone Weil (via blancheparish)

Source: sacredsister