Book: “Why am i afraid to tell you who i am?” by John Powell, S.J. :
“If I expose my nakedness as a person to you- Do not make me feel shame.”
“I can help you to accept and open yourself mostly by accepting and revealing myself to you.”
“But, if I tell you who I am, you may not like who I am, and it is all that I have.”
“I can only know that much of myself which I have had the courage to confide to you.”
“The greatest kindness I have to offer you is always: the truth.”
“To reveal myself openly and honestly takes the rawest kind of courage.”
“Whatever my secrets are, remember when I entrust them to you, they are part of me.”
“To tell you my THOUGHTS is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my FEELINGS is to tell you about ME.”
“To understand people, I must try to hear what they are NOT saying, what they perhaps will never be able to say.”
“It is a law of human life, as certain as gravity: To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people…not love things and use people.”
