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"In the midst of my patients’ turmoil, wisdom surreptitiously crept into their experience. Paradoxically, I was learning lessons about achieving personal peace from people who had been put to the ultimate peace-seeking test—they had been trained for war! They become real with the hurts and losses they have experienced. Unspoken guilt and shame surface and are met with a sincere desire for release. Loss of independence and increasing dependence on other people forces an angry reckoning with their fear of helplessness and loss of control. Love and tenderness reach into recesses of anguish and neglect. The good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful—all colliding with a quiet ferocity that incorporates the full spectrum of the human experience. Pain and peace experienced together—initially with fear and later without fear."
- Deborah Grassman Soul Injury, Chapter One, Page 2
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