openness and telling the truth

[iridium]

i keep coming back around to this little piece of writing, a quote from bell hooks, and so here i am again:

"There are some folks for whom openness is not about the luxury of "will I choose to share this or that," but rather "will I survive -- will I stay alive?" and openness is about how to be well and telling the truth is about how to put the broken bits & pieces of the heart back together again. It is about being whole, being wholehearted."

that's not everything, but it's some of the important bits. sometime soon i want to sit down and write a good bit more on how i approach honesty and openness, but right now it's time for breakfast and hopefully getting a little bit of work done.

Comments

[rax.livejournal.com]

I really like that quote. I wish I had something interesting to say about it. If I think of something, I'll tell you. :)

[iridium.livejournal.com]

sounds good. do write, if you have any wisdom/thoughts/advice/etc to offer on honesty and openness, how to make sense of this world and people and all that. i'm muddling through it, and i've been going back and looking through some of the bits i've written over the past few years, but anything you can throw in would be welcome. :)