940 Quotes About Safety

Only if we are able to widen the lens to take in the bigger picture that includes both the outer challenges and the inner distress do we begin to sense that the protectors are in proportion to what is in need of shelter. It is our system's sense that moving the safeguard aside and allowing the implicit to emerge would be more harmful than whatever the protector is doing in this moment.

This is where all the work we have done with ourselves to sense the connection between our bodily sensations and implicit memories comes to help our person. Our conviction that this is the doorway to the deeper places provides a foundation, through resonance, for him to slow down and attend to his body.

the implicit is awakening in search of healing rather than trying to harm us

The problem when managers become fearful of their company is that you end up with unsafe workplaces.

Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed?

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

If my goal is simply to survive the journey, then I’m not on the journey in the first place.

All those years of endless excruciating therapy sessions, of staying vigilant over every move and word and thought; I had been sure I was mended, all the breaks healed, all the blood washed away. I knew I had earned my way to safety. I had believed, beyond any doubt, that that meant I was safe.

Tradition was safety; change was danger.