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"The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to avoid feeling the effects of our behavior. We can never afford to be truly seen and known-even by ourselves."
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"What I keep in secret, it makes you to get closer as fast you get to the secret and you reveal it. You don't have anymore the "want" or the "will" or the "motivation" which to make you want to like me... It's the truth, the truth ruins, the secret devastate the stuff and the lie just makes corrections in the correction but all in the end is in one place and it's really screw up."
"If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner."
"Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved."
"Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It's not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can't tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend's well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?"
"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them."
"I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets."
"I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles."
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"We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love."
"Love simply, perpetually exists and that it's a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it."
"When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love."
"Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you you won't stand up for other people."
"I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all."
"When we develop our ability to love in one realm, we simultaneously nourish our ability in others, as long as we remain open to the flow of insight and compassion."
"When we bring deep awareness to whatever's bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently."
"Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings."
"Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don't want to believe it."
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