#witness

Public truth telling is a form of recovery, especially when combined with social action. Sharing traumatic experiences with others enables victims to reconstruct repressed memory, mourn loss, and master helplessness, which is trauma's essential insult. And, by facilitating reconnection to ordinary life, the public testimony helps survivors restore basic trust in a just world and overcome feelings of isolation. But the talking cure is predicated on the existence of a community willing to bear witness. 'Recovery can take place only within the context of relationships,' write Judith Herman. 'It cannot occur in isolation. ↗

— Lawrence N. Powell

#healing #holocaust #recovery #relationships #survival

Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#bear #better #bodies #breasts #children

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. ↗

— Margaret Millar

#delivered #monologues #most #presence #simply

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#becomes #conscience #evil #his #ideal

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#apprehension #birth #births #defects #entering

Answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they witness against thee. ↗

— Pontius Pilate

#behold #how #many #nothing #thee

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#blitz #brought #deal #did #great

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#his #history #job #time #witness

My witness is the empty sky. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#sky #witness

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#makes #nothing #proper #resist #set