WHY AM I AFRAID TO TELL YOU WHO I AM?

if i expose my nakedness mostly to you, please don't make me feel naked.

i can only help you to open yourself by opening myself to you.

it's a law of human life, as certain as gravity:to live fully, we must learn to use things and love people and not to love things and use people.

it is socially fashionable to ask: "who am i?" there is no little "real self"inside of me. i am what i am committed to judge, feel, value, honor, hate fear, love and desire

if i tell you who i am, you may not like it, but certainly, that is what I've got.

i can only know that much of myself which i have had the courage to confide to you.

to refuse the invitation to interpersonal encounter is to be an isolated dot in the center of a great circle...a small island in a vast ocean.

"sorry, but this is the way i am... i was like this in the beginning, am now and ever shall be..." is a handy motto and delusion to have around you if you don't want to grow up.

WHEN I REPRESS MY EMOTIONS, MY STOMACH KEEPS SCORES 1, 2, 3, ...INFINITY.IF IT LETS LOOSE, WE ARE SERRATED

most of us feel that others will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. we would rather defend our dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others; and, having rationalized our phoniness in to nobility, we settle for superficial relationships.