Peter A. Levine quotes:

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage, into our own suffering. We often hold the tacit assumption that all of our suffering stems from events in the past. But, whatever the initial seed of trauma, the deeper truth is that our suffering is more closely a result of how we deal with the effect these past events have on us in the present.

When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.