Comments for Status Update: Making More Inroads on Traumatic Stress at http://belleruthnaparstek.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://belleruthnaparstek.com Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:22:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://belleruthnaparstek.com/update-from-belleruth/status-update-making-more-inroads-on-traumatic-stress.html#comment-1159 Those are some great thoughts. A reflective artist friend just sent me this one, which strikes a different but equally engaging note: ..be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. From Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke - Belleruth Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:08:29 +0100 http://belleruthnaparstek.com/update-from-belleruth/status-update-making-more-inroads-on-traumatic-stress.html#comment-1155 Your observations re our "troops are given legal drugs by docs...." and "so many are dependent on them..." and William L's (in HuffPo)thoughtful comments re: "this business of medicating troops in the field" have stayed with me. My ancestors(several md's and rn's included) many of whom served in our military and all of them in their communities who lived and left a legacy of recovery for us to embrace on the road to healing have been whispering to me in my dreams this past week. So much to say. May I share a few thoughts from some of my teachers? "What will I do with this one wild and wonderful life?" "What matters most is how well you walk through the fire" "What worries me the most is that I may prove unworthy of my challenge" and last, but not least, for sure "I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead". - barbjb Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:48:19 +0100