Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress
Daniel D. Maurer
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Spiritual assets allow us to see more clearly, love more deeply, and act more courageously.”
“Spiritual assets make us more resilient to the trauma and difficult experiences life inevitably throws at us. Since spiritual assets bring us closer to our Higher Power, we do not face the difficulties alone, and we may find a greater purpose and meaning within the stress & trauma. When we lean on our spiritual assets to get us through, the traumatic event becomes less destructive. Instead, it becomes transformative; we see the difficulties in a new light.”
“forgiveness isn’t a feeling, it’s a deliberate act of faith and a choice.”
“when we recognize how much we have received from others, we begin to see our lives as a gift.”
“the more I have been willing to accept, to own, and to embrace my story of addiction and redemption, the more resilient I am to whatever life throws at me, good or bad.”
“spirituality does not have to be a scary, excluding, or arcane process, but instead that a spiritual life is a never-ending quest to become a more authentic, whole human being.”
“spiritual assets seemed to contribute positively to every struggler’s resilience.”
“research indicates that anger negatively correlates with resilience. A fascinating and broadly cited study published in 2003 sought to determine what role positive emotions (such as hopefulness or gratitude) had in a crisis. The researchers chose the attacks on September 11, 2001, as the crisis event. What they found was astonishing. Not only did positive emotions have a positive correlation with resilience; negative emotions clearly indicated a poor outcome. Anger (especially ongoing, continual anger) was the number one indicator that a person would not be able to resume functioning as he had before the crisis. Fuming in anger, apparently, doesn’t enable us to bounce back very well.10”
“maybe community is everyone, and the delineations we impose are really artificial.”
“Yet, I still had hope. I hoped that I’d be able to manage to stay sober for just one day, and that one day, God could use me for good again. That hope gave me a reason to live and a purpose to commit to.”
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