a quote from "The Importance of Being Foolish"

By Brennan Manning (writing on the topic of the importance of transparency)
...Often our preoccupation with the three most basic human desires -- security, pleasure, and power -- is the cloak that covers transparency. The endless struggle for enough money, good feelings, and prestige yields a rich harvest of worry, frustration, suspicion, anger, jealousy, anxiety, fear, and resentment. These powerful, emotion-backed desires cause 99 percent of the self-inflicted and unnecessary suffering in our lives. They continually focus our attention on self and keep us from being transparent, dimming the light and obscuring "the glory of God in the face of Christ." (2 Cor 4:6)