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We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
Kitty, The "Secret Annexe
Boxes
We built walls of cardboard
thinking they would keep us safe.
And they did.
Until the flames
came.
It's so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.
Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth.
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
In the hollow steel-lined bin, my unfortunate eruption resonated such that it would have humiliated me if my first concern had been social acceptance. My first concern, however, was survival. At the moment, I didn't have the capacity for embarrassment because terror filled me.
The most impregnable wall invisibly divides you from yourself.
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
A cage that cannot be seen is no less there than if the walls were made of steel.
Wall your life, guard your heart and mind your mind! A life without a wall least blocks something! A mind without a wall accepts anything at all!
It is all possessions, possessions, bullying you and turning you into a generalisation. You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside.
The only person who can confine you is yourself.
A healthy boundary creates controlled vulnerability.
There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.
The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
You have no idea how many times I've been barricaded inside a box in my life. I know it's for my protection. But that doesn't mean I have to like it. (Kiara)
Some secrets buried away in boxes are peacefully forgotten, just as we hope they'll be. But some refuse to stay in their boxes, popping out at the worst possible times. And then there are those ... that linger and fester, gnawing away from the inside out.
As a small child I had discovered that only two places are available to those who wish to remain concealed. The choices are to be a nonentity or an exception. You either disappear into a plebeian background or move forward to where most others fear to follow.
Hiding is existing in a constant state of alarm, remaining undiscovered, and inferior.
myself under control.
Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.
What a man doesn't know he can't spill if he is captured; neither drugs, nor torture, nor brainwash, nor endless lack of sleep can squeeze out a secret he doesn't possess.
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.
You build walls & boundaries when you give into your mind. Fear nothing & take control of who you are & who you are meant to be
With an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy.
Only by concealing our identities can we shed the masks we have to wear at school, at work, even at home - everywhere there is surveillance, policing, punishment - masks that are increasingly indistinguishable from ourselves.
Defiance through compliance.
If you were to hide the world in the world, so that nothing could get away, this would be the final reality of the constancy of things.
Your inner being guard, and keep it free.
No group can be truly suppressed until its members are trained and convinced to suppress one another.
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
Silence, sometimes my fortress, always my prison.
He was bound inside this body, trapped, an airborne being caged. In
What remains is solitude.
Isolation is a way to know ourselves
Battle against obscurity
There is great knowledge in separation.
The disruption of the broadcast. Beetee's glad we find the plan hard to follow, because then our enemies will, too. "Like your electricity trap in the arena?" I ask. "Exactly. And see how well that worked out?" says Beetee. Well ... not
Censorship & Torture.
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August 17, 2016
P.C.M. Hermans
Do not hide behind any mask
Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison
In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.
A cage stokes our emotions and imaginations, regardless of whether you are inside looking out, or outside looking in.
To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.
We all build walls to feel safe. But they often turn into traps that limit our experience.
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Precision and clarity where the police
Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.
The hard-bound space hides the vulnerable self.
The barrier has begun to yield.
One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And the root problem, beneath a hundred varying manifestions, is How to Escape. How to escape, that is, at those times, be they few or frequent, when you want to keep yourself to yourself.
We are given these niches, small worlds of our own populated by only a handful, where we feel understood. Our bubble worlds bump into innumerable others daily, but there is so little cause to allow their integrity to be breached.
CHAPTER L THE PURSUIT AND ESCAPE
Those masks we wear
not to shield others; but ourselves from who we are.
We live beneath many layers. Some are for our protection, and some are for our control.
What surrounds us is what is within us.
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Although it is true that some have
been captured; we would like to
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The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
To remain mysterious, say little and do nothing.
Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.
There is no need for arms, physical violence, material constraints. Just a gaze. An inspecting gaze, a gaze that each individual under its weight will end by [internalising] to the point that they are their own overseer, each individual thus exercising surveillance over, and against themself.
You don't want to cover a subject; you want to uncover it.
Solitude is the place of purification.
The longer we confine ourselves to a place the more it imprisons us.
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
The exhausting manipulation and control it takes to protect an identity based on circumstances will crush our hearts and hide the best of who we are behind a wall of insecurity.
It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
Solitude is a catalyst for innovation
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
Man's capacity to dig himself in, to secrete a shell, to build around himself a tenuous barrier of defence, even in apparently desperate circumstances, is astonishing and merits a serious study.
Isolate any resistance by avoiding any direct confrontation.
The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression ...
Boundaries keep people out; mine served only to keep me in.
Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.
the silent space around a secret is shattered, it cannot be made whole again. The
This kind of totalization of security consciousness [after tragedy of 9/11] has the effect within classrooms (and beyond) of constraining the imagination and reinforcing attitudes that privilege the forces of law and order as against the crosscurrents of freedom and dissent.
When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.
The more they erect barriers, the more we feel inclined to pull them down. If the barriers are too high, we will go under them. If the barriers are too deep, we will learn to fly. If your heart is set on freedom, no cage will ever keep you in.
A mole could only avoid and evade the monitoring systems of which he was aware. Which made it crucial that almost no one be permitted to see the whole picture. Within
To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.
Each of us is an impregnable fortress that can be laid waste only from within.
Be so positive and optimistic that people give up trying to contain you.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.
You want to neuter us," Director Tagg said. "Stop us from policing the criminals who run this city."
"As my client put it, Director, we're hoping to free you to focus your efforts on real targets.
We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false dreams.
The Secret Teachings on Covert Activity: Even after you infiltrate someone's house, if you cannot know clearly what is going on inside, you should take appropriate measures to understand the situation.
What is privacy if not for invading?
I guard my existence, sheltered by distance. Hidden and masked I parade, everyone oblivious to the grand charade.
I hide, I protect, I pretend.
You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.
unselfing themselves
They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.
Seclusion is the price of greatness.
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
Walls divide while boundaries honor.