My friend, colleague, web designer, and fellow blogger, Brian (check out his personal development blog, DevYou), shared a wonderful quote with me recently that relates directly to the theme of this site. Brian introduced the quote with these words: It was said by John Barlow about Spalding Gray during the period of grieving immediately following Spalding’s suicide:

“Among the beliefs that he and I shared was a conviction that making public the intimately personal is a revolutionary act in an atomized society where many feel compelled to play so close to the chest that they can’t read their own cards. Being emotionally naked before strangers extends to them a permission for self-revelation they badly need if they are to loosen the shackles of their own quiet desperations. It is a blow against the pursuit of loneliness.”

Thank you, Brian.

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