“The first part of emotional healing is being limbically known - having someone with a keen ear catch your melodic essence. (170)”

“Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being . . . my essence . . . is a part of all Being, all Essence.”

“Describing good relatedness to someone, no matter how precisely or how often, does not inscribe it into the neural networks that inspire love. Self-help books are like car repair manuals: you can read them all day, but doing so doesn't fix a thing. Working on a car means rolling up your sleeves and getting under the hood, and you have to be willing to get dirt on your hands and grease beneath your fingernails. Overhauling emotional knowledge is no spectator sport; it demands the messy experience of yanking and tinkering that comes from a limbic bond. If someone's relationship today bear a troubled imprint, they do so because an influential relationship left its mark on a child's mind. When a limbic connection has established a neural pattern, it takes a limbic connection to revise it.”

“To heal physically, one must heal the emotional aspect of the issue first or it will resurface in another way.”

“Somewhere in the pain there is pleasure, and that is the most awful part, perhaps. (170)”

“Hear the heartbeats of a nationsilenced together on the impatientwinds of change,And deafen your ears to the words ofone. Melodized by emancipation..Then open your eyes,open your eyes for me:Darling, freedom to you isa freedom to none.”