RESPECT FOR OTHERS: Such parts of our story we tell to someone who will understand, yet be unaffected. The rule is we must be hard on ourself, but always considerate…
“HOLD BACK NOTHING”: The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide and your full confidence in the one with whom you share your first accurate self-survey...…
THE FOREST AND THE TREES: ...what comes to us alone may be garbled by our own rationalization and wishful thinking. The benefit of talking to another person is that we…
“ENTIRELY HONEST”: We must be entirely honest with somebody if we expect to live long or happily in this world. – ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pages 73-74 – Honesty, like all virtues,…
CLEANING HOUSE: Somehow, being alone with God doesn’t seem as embarrassing as facing up to another person. Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so…