Self Disclosure Quotes:

Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.

- Sidney Jourard

topic: Self, Important, Reason, Disclosure, Self Disclosure

By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.

- Caroline Knapp

topic: Order, Self, Demand, Self Disclosure

One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure - a willingness to let our partner enter into the interior of our private world and a genuine interest in the private world of that partner. Couples in love tend to show more of themselves to each other than to any other person....

- Nathaniel Branden

topic: Couple, Flower, Love You, Disclosure, Couple Love

It seems to me, then, that vulnerability and and self-disclosure are at the heart of what we understand about the nature of God. And the reason I believe gay and lesbian people are spiritual people is that we too have participated in vulnerability and self-disclosure, especially in the process of coming-out. When someone shares with you who they really, really are, it is a special offering. To do so when it risks rejection is a profound, holy gift.

- Gene Robinson

source: Gene Robinson (2012). “God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage”, p.109, Vintage

topic: Spiritual, Believe, Heart, Self Disclosure

Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.

- Sissela Bok

source: Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.119, Vintage

topic: Confused, Lying, Party, Confidentiality, Self Disclosure

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

- John Powell

topic: Courage, Real, Love Is, Gift Of Love, Self Disclosure

In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure , although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love. Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. God came to us in the incarnation; in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

source: Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.12, Fig

topic: Self, And Love, Atonement, Disclosure, Faith And Love

If it was really true that predation is God's will, it would have to follow for Christians that the life of Jesus -- what after all is the self-disclosure of God -- manifested and vindicated this predator/prey relationship. Such a gospel would be substantially different from the one we currently have.... Instead of raising Lazarus from the dead, the Predator Jesus could only comment that death is God's blessing. Instead of preaching the good news of the coming kingdom of God, the proclamation would run: "Eat and be eaten.

- Andrew Linzey

topic: Christian, Running, Jesus, Really True, Lazarus

That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Hair, Self, Hands, Self Disclosure