No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own reality. Healing…depends on experiential knowledge: You can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral dimensions.
— Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D.
Every dream is a masterpiece of symbolic communication. The unconscious speaks in symbols, not to confuse us, but simply because that is its native idiom.
— Dr. Robert Johnson