I am reading John Lynch's book, "The Cure" and I am finding to be insightful and helpful. It is really can be frightening in the way the writers seem to know what I have been going through in my life. The following is a quote from the end of Chapter 2 that I thought was very insightful. They are talking about masks that we wear, why we wear them & how(and why) they always start to unravel as life goes on.
"All of us wake up one day to the pain of realizing we can't control our lives the way we thought we could. We're still stuck with unresolved issues, symptoms we're trying to fix, without anyone's help.
Only that sort of revelation will free me into the stunning, life-giving hope of this next statement: "What if there was a place so safe that the worst of me could be known, and I would discover that I would not be loved less, but more in the telling of it?"
That place exists. And when you reach it, unresolved issues will begin to heal. You'll gather up stacks of masks and toss them in the dumpster, brushing your hands together as you walk away. Then, you'll walk into the daylight, your skin feeling the morning air for the first time since you can remember. You'll drink in the beauty of flowers and earth, free from those nauseating fumes of epoxy holding your face to a mask."
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