I often think that the effort we put into trying to pretend something about us is truethat we are less than we are or more than we are or that one aspect of ourselves is the whole storyis based in a fear of being really known, of being truly seen, as we actually are. Perhaps we each have a wound, a vulnerable place that we have to protect in order to survive. And yet sometimes we overcompensate so much for the things we are trying to hide that no one ever suspects the truthand then we are left in the true aloneness of never really being known.
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Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People.