Chapter 15Sentimentalism, Sensitiveness, Instability, Laxity · Shyness
Book 4. Part Two: Sadhana on the Level of the Vital · Section Two: Vital Temperament
As for shyness, there are two kinds: one is egoistic, being ashamed of expressing the Truth or showing allegiance to it in ways which would not be understood by others — the other is a certain reserve, an unwillingness to expose one’s deeper feelings to the gaze of others, the wish to keep sacred and secret the relations of love with the Divine — that is a psychic feeling.