It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.
Interpretation
Telling the truth offers protection and relief, while lying creates vulnerability and anxiety.
Eve Ensler highlights the paradoxical nature of truth and lies. When we embrace honesty, we find solace and security, whereas deceit leaves us exposed to the fear of being discovered. This quote underscores the inherent strength and emotional clarity that come from being truthful, contrasting it with the anxiety and insecurity that accompany dishonesty.
In practice
During a workshop on mental health, one might say, 'As Eve Ensler pointed out, telling the truth protects us and brings relief.'
Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.
Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off.
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, "You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission."
Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.
I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.
My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God's word.
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