When you're removed from your environment what do you still hold dear?

It’s better to hurt and live than to exist in a state of numbness forever.

To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

None of us need be perfect, nor exercise saintly compassion, nor reach any emotional or spiritual benchmark before we can say we're on the healing path. All we need is readiness to participate in whatever process wants to unfold within us so that healing can happen naturally.

The nature of our nature is not to be particularly constrained by our nature.
— Gabor Mate, Myth of Normal