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Talks, interviews and lectures by physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté — on trauma, addiction, stress and disease, ADHD, attachment, and healing.
…It's possible that growth is possible until the, uh, till the very end. And I read, recently I'm rereading the Greek playwrights, Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles. And I think it's in the Agamemnon, I believe, but it could be one of the other Greek…
…just wish that, I mean, obviously I'm grateful. I wish it was otherwise, you know. In the book, I quote this Greek playwright, Aeschylus, 2,500 years ago, he said that the way that Master or God created us, we have to suffer, suffer into truth. And…
…to them. But I know many examples where people have suffered through illness into truth. And I'm quoting here the Greek playwright, Aeschylus, who, 2,500 years ago, who in his play, The Agamemnon, said that the way Zeus, the master, created us is that we…
…to seek the truth. Some words to that effect. And whether he knows it or not, he's quoting the great Greek playwright Aeschylus, who in his Agamemnon, the chorus says, we human beings suffer into truth. So literally, it was that suffering imposed by my…
…And I don't recommend that way of waking up, but my God, it works that way very often. One of the Greek playwrights, Aeschylus, wrote in a play called Agamemnon, written 2400 years ago, And he said that the way that the gods created us, human beings,…
…recognition of these responses or of these like kind of negative ways of coping? But usually what happens is a Greek playwright, Aeschylus, who in his play Agamemnon says that the way the gods created us, we have to suffer into truth. Suffer into truth.…
…such as you've been had to ask yourself. Yeah. It does begin with asking questions. You know, there's an ancient Greek playwright, Aeschylus, who in his play, The Agamemnon, he says somewhere that, The way the gods created us, or Zeus, the Greek god,…
…culture, one of my subtitles is toxic culture, and it's got so bad. There's a Greek playwright that I quote in my book. He's Aeschylus, and one of his plays, he said that the way that God's created us, human beings, that we have to suffer, suffer into…
…you up. It'll make you suffer greatly if you don't listen. What else can it do? That's its purpose. So the Greek playwright, Aeschylus, in his play The Agamemnon, he has the Greek chorus say that the way the master, Zeus, created us human beings, that…
…there is that kind of divine design within our wounding and how it shows up and the purpose it serves? So the Greek playwright Aeschylus has in one of his plays the statement that the master Zeus created us so that we have to suffer, suffer into truth.…
…my book very succinctly. We don't have to wait for illness for us to deal with our stuff. I quote this Greek playwright, Aeschylus, who said that the way that God's created us, we human beings, we have to suffer, suffer into the truth. And that's often…
…the point of view of what is true, there was a deep teaching in it. Deep, deep teaching in it. Now, the Greek playwright Aeschylus in his play The Agamemnon He's got a line where the Greek chorus says that the way the master or Zeus created us human…
…awareness of that, who am I anyway? And then a reconnection by going through the shadows of inferno and that's kind of what Aeschylus was also talking about that we have to suffer, suffer into truth. Now, what does all this have to do with trauma? Well,…
…culture, one of my subtitles is toxic culture, and it's got so bad. There's a Greek playwright that I quote in my book. He's Aeschylus, and one of his plays, he said that the way that God's created us, human beings, that we have to suffer, suffer into…
…call you a mama's boy and that you're coddled. Like, how does someone break out of that? Well, there was a Greek playwright, Aeschylus, who wrote about drama about 2,500 years ago. And in one of his plays, the Agamemnon, he says that the way Zeus, the…