Category: Meditations

“There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.”
―Frank Warren

What feelings lead you to suspect when you are keeping a secret from yourself?

I give you the key to…ah, there’s the rub. What is it that this particular key unlocks? Anyone with a bowl or a drawer full of keys knows how easy it is to have keys that definitely unlock something, but you just can’t remember what. Sometimes you have the solution, but you just can’t figure out the problem.

What solution do you have for which you would love to know the problem it solves?

Whatever the big picture might look like, we mortals only ever get to see a few pieces of the whole puzzle. When you hold just one small part of the larger mystery, sometimes the best you can do is to look for pattern and meaning in the bits you have and hope to make connections as you go along.

How do you see your small piece connecting to the larger Whole?

“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
―Martin Luther King Jr.

What conversations have you chosen to have even though you were afraid?

“Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.”
―James Joyce

What does it take to dethrone a tyrannous secret?