Monday, 15 April 2013

SECRETS PROTECT ADDICTION


I couldn't say this any better than someone working on freeing herself from a sick relationship with an addict who was refusing to get better:

"I had a headache – maybe because my head was too full of thoughts? I felt better after talking and getting stuff out of my head and into the open.
Secrets can make us physically sick!"  

Whatever secrets we carry - in the name of privacy, dignity, self-reliance, shame, or loyalty - weigh us down and distract us from our true nature.

Guarding secrets puts us on guard, we are tentative about revealing anything about ourselves and our loved-ones.

Secrets spawn lies to protect them,  and lies create more guardedness, isolation and mistrust.

I like this saying: Always tell the Truth. That way, you don’t have to remember what you said.  ~ Mark Twain

And this: Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the Truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli
 

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