Altissima Groupings Tolerance Workshop : Intro

Secrets & Clarity

Secrets are natural. In Nature, they are meant to provide a safe way for things to change. After conception, a new life is kept secret and safe, secure either in an egg or in the womb. After wounds, scabs hide the restoration of the skin and then fall away. They can act as zippers, either gathering things close together, or separating them. Secrets are also the simply hidden aspects of life, waiting to be discovered when you mature to the point where you can understand.

But secrets are meant to be a phase, a temporary period, a stage to be traversed.
Secrets that are kept past the time of maturity tend to rot and poison.

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Quotes

"Secrets tear you apart."

"Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets."

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides."

“A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others."

“Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.”

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

“Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them."

“A secret is a kind of promise.... It can also be a prison."

“A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets."

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

“The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep."

“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."

“Three things cannot long stay hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth."

“A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here."

“Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful."

“If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find."

“Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal."

“I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine."

“We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets."

“We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets."

“After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?"

“I don't have any secrets I need kept any more."

“I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!"

“I would like to uncover the secrets of the universe."

“I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out."

“I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?"

“Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end."

“I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets."

“All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves."

“I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some."

“It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back."

“One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed."

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

“I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.”

“I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.”

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