Oracle and Quote engine: Keeping secrets private and holding back emotion are psychic misdemeanors for which nature visits us with sickness. But when secrets are told and emotions expressed in communion with others, they satisfy nature and may even count as useful virtues...There appears to be a conscience in humankind that severely punishes everyone who does not somehow and sometime, at whatever cost in personal pride, confess fallibility. Until one can do this, an impenetrable will shuts one off from the vital feeling of being fully human. This explains the extraordinary significance of genuine, straightforward confession — a truth that was probably known to all initiation rites and mystery cults of the ancient world. There is a saying among Greek mysteries, "Give up what you have, and you will receive.”'