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Grace Wilson - April 03, 2008

My friends gave me this book about a year ago; I can’t remember the name. The author asked for people around the country to send him anonymous postcards containing whatever secret they wanted to tell. The book is full of those postcards.

For instance, a preacher’s wife of many years admits she’s never believed in God. A man had gay sex at summer camp when he was a boy. A mother admits she’s never told her children she loves them.

People’s secrets are fascinating. Most of the ones I read, while I’m sure they were devastating to the ones keeping them locked up, don’t seem so bad to the outside observer.

Years and years ago I attended a seminar at the Chopra Center where, after several days of meditating and getting in touch with ourselves we had to stand in two concentric circles in the middle of the room, each circle of people facing the other circle of people. Whoever you were standing across from, you had to tell one of your deepest, darkest secrets. And then one of the circles would move and you’d be facing another partner and you’d have to tell them your secret, too. At first, everyone was revealing “bogus” secrets (I cheated on a test in high school, that sort of thing), but as we got going, people were opening up and revealing the more emotionally painful ones. All in all, you probably whispered a secret to ten different people in the group, and you heard ten as well. There was no judgment as everyone was in the same position, and getting the secrets out disarmed them to some degree.

We give our secrets so much power. Why do they scare us so much?

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Posted by Grace Wilson at April 3, 2008 10:19 PM

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Grace
Check out www.truemomconfessions.com - my friend created this network of sites. There is something therapeutic in anonymously telling your secrets.
I find her confessional sites very addicting and fascinating.
Mallika

1. Posted by MallikaChopra on April 3, 2008 10:28 PM

Whoa, Grace, Mallika,(nice to meet you,) one can see the way this is going....whoa! One's bottom is already sore and it's nothing to do with summer camp. If we turn this place into a confessional, I'll be in the hot seat night and day.
Y'know, I do have to get my beauty sleep....far superior to the Pope!
Thank you ;)

2. Posted by Ed on April 4, 2008 12:27 AM

That's your 'night and day' by the way. I usually sleep GMT/BST and that's not a confession.

3. Posted by Ed on April 4, 2008 12:40 AM

For those wondering...

4. Posted by Jean-François Désaulniers on April 4, 2008 01:33 AM

He has a website, I used to have the link bookmarked, and couldn't find it... it's a neat site.

Love,
North

5. Posted by North on April 4, 2008 05:57 AM

Hi Grace,

If we as individuals hold secrets just imagine the layers of secrets Mother Earth holds. Just imagine the spillled blood of war after war. Just imagine the darkness from evil intention and unaware non-intention.

How do we allow Her to release her secrets? With conscious intention. We can stand on her ground and intentionally let her pain lift. We can stand on her ground and forgive all the cultures and all the people who expressed violence, greed, lust. Our Dalai Lama calls it compassion.

We lift Her through thought, word, and action. Through dance, laughter and song. As we are lifted so is She; as She is lifted so are we.

Please don't forget the ground under one's feet.
It is holy ground.

Trish~~

6. Posted by Trish on April 4, 2008 07:05 AM

Most people do not acknowledge their secrets because they are too painful. However, the interesting paradox is that when we acknowledge are secrets and "shadow self" then we can let go of them and free ourselves.

7. Posted by Matthew on April 4, 2008 11:38 AM

Yesterday was a day, different
Like always, in the same cafe
Alone
Studying, for a life still waiting
Waiting to be

Looks of strangers
Young and older
Surrounded by conversations and laughters
So empty of authenticity
Playing superficial happiness
ME not participating by purpose

The night starts to penetrate me
Stronger this time
On my way back home

Even while sleeping
An echo of my own voice
"I am myself" talking
With a feeling of black-blindness
Pressurized itself in a cell-view

Waking up
Facing the other side...

8. Posted by Jean-François Désaulniers on April 5, 2008 07:48 AM

I picture myself in front of you, Malli
Addicted by your emotional waves
Beauty needed

And what if, strangers
Sit head to head
Digging into the nights of our beings
Sit head to head
Into the wind, surrounded by a few trees and flowers

For a moment like my worst enemy
Fascination, in front high inspirational beauty
Trying to socialize and to share
But I think, somewhere, we don't care

It's hard to admit that some persons represent beauty and life-inspiration
It's hard to try to share it

How easy to write it with charms, I agree
Certainty of shyness deeper than yours
I'll be probably the first to not be...

9. Posted by Jean-François Désaulniers on April 5, 2008 08:13 AM

Ain't no strangers, Jean...strange clothings, though.
Look your likes.

Merci beau.

10. Posted by Ed on April 7, 2008 10:46 AM

I remembered the name of the book: "Post Secret."

Turns out there is even a blog. http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Love,
Grace

11. Posted by Grace Wilson on April 9, 2008 05:49 AM

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