Kat Duff quotes

“Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.”
-- Kat Duff

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“My body has taught me many things, all of them filled with soul: how to dance and make love, mourn and make music; now it is teaching me how to heal. I am learning to heed the shifting currents of my body-the subtle changes in temperature, muscle tension, thought and mood-the way a sailor rides the wind by reading the ripples on the water.”
-- Kat Duff

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“I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy.”
-- Kat Duff

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“By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.”
-- Kat Duff

Source : Kat Duff (2014). “The Secret Life of Sleep”, p.84, Oneworld Publications

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“Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'”

“Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.”

“No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.”

“I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.”

“You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.”

“Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.”

“You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.”

“Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.”

“Isolation breeds conceit.”