c/gabor-mate
Talks, interviews and lectures by physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté — on trauma, addiction, stress and disease, ADHD, attachment, and healing.
…I'm not saying give up all hope or keep your eye off the ball or anything like that. Well, there's this great Leonard Cohen lyric, which of course has turned into a fridge magnet worthy cliche, but it's very, very true and beautiful and powerful, which…
…my life. There were two Canadians who got me through it because they expressed what I was feeling. One of them was Leonard Cohen and the other one was Glenn Gould. I thought that was a very powerful statement of acknowledgement that can come through the…
…to build strong children than fix broken men and my question was how do we fix broken people There's a wonderful song by Leonard Cohen called Come Heal or Come Healing. So it begins, O gather up the brokenness, bring it to me now. The fragrance of…
…heart. So that implied in that is that nobody's broken. That underneath the brokenness there's wholeness. So, and that's not only Leonard Cohen, any spiritual teachers you know will tell you the same thing. So it's not a matter of fixing anything broken.…
…to build strong children than fix broken men. And my question was, how do we fix broken people? There's a wonderful song by Leonard Cohen called Come Heal or Come Healing. So it begins, Oh, gather up the brokenness, bring it to me now. The fragrance of…
…heart. So that implied in that is that nobody's broken. That underneath the brokenness, there's wholeness. So, and that's not only Leonard Cohen, any spiritual teachers you know will tell you the same thing. So it's not a matter of fixing anything broken.…
…point is, you talked about how the wound is where the light gets in. Well, you know, there's that very famous Canadian singer, Leonard Cohen. He's got a song where he sings, there's a crack in everything. That's where the light gets in. So that we can…