The Trauma of Everyday Life

“The core of the dream is not the manifest content but the emotional experience.”

All that is subject to arising is subject to

In so doing, the Buddha’s mother acted out an inadequacy that many a mother—like many a lover—is vulnerable to, an inadequacy fed by thoughts of doubt and fear that erode confidence and corrode connection.

“Body exposed in the golden

Before saying a word, he motioned to a glass at his side. “Do you see this glass?” he asked us. “I love this glass. It holds the water admirably. When the sun shines on it, it reflects the light beautifully. When I tap it, it has a lovely ring. Yet for me, this glass is already broken. When the wind knocks it over or my elbow knocks it off the shel

The infinitely poignant beauty of creation is inseparable from its diabolic destructiveness.

Clinical studies of such children reveal that a preponderance of them have parents who have related to them in either a helpless and fearful way or a hostile and self-referential one. The children of helpless and fearful parents, in particular, have a very difficult time later in life. Their parents tend to be sweet and fragile, not hostile or aggr

We emerge, as infants, from a relational matrix and then struggle to come to terms with the trauma of aloneness.

“the unbearable embeddedness of