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Price of freedome1/2/2023 ![]() ![]() I cannot camouflage my values or beliefs for very long. What I am comes out, must always be expressed. My brain filters reality according to my settings: what gets priority, what gets seen, what gets noticed, what is allowed to be real, what is ignored. ![]() But I do, by my intention and attention, and by my inattention. I think that I don’t control the situations and circumstances of my day. It also is expressed in what happens to me. It’s in what we do and what we say and how we say it, and what we don’t say, as well. It’s in eyes, in face, in body language, in tone, in movement, in the way the eyes move, in where the attention goes. Honesty always forces its way up and out. Avoidance and dishonesty create internal conflict, misalignment, friction. Either way, I’m afraid of seeing what the answer is-so I avoid the question.Īvoiding the difficult questions can only work for so long. There’s a potential answer I want, or don’t want. The difficult questions are the ones with answers I’m afraid to face. Often the difficult questions are the simplest ones. The difficult questions are not the most complex or confusing ones. And how honest we are with ourselves depends mainly on how brave we can be in any given moment.īeing honest with myself means asking the difficult questions. How honest we are with others flows always from how honest we are with ourselves. Honesty is a choice you can only make for yourself, internally, freely. You can force or manipulate someone into giving you the facts or “telling you the truth” but you can’t force anyone to be honest with you. I control the level of honesty in which I operate.įacts and honesty are different. Or, another way to say it: I control the acceptance I can enjoy because I control how much I allow myself to be seen. That kind of acceptance can come only when I allow myself to be seen. To be seen and to be accepted no matter how messy I am, no matter how much I spill over the edges or just break the mold completely. ![]() Home is where I feel safest being seen (or most seen).Īcceptance is the relational working out of honesty. Home is the place where honesty is easiest, where it is most okay. That’s what we want, what we’re looking for in one way or another. It can feel like a risk-it is a risk-but it’s also the most important thing I can do because being seen, being real- AH. Beautiful in all its forms, all its expression: direct, subtle, spoken, shown, with words or face or body or sound or attention or creation or anything. Honesty is the most beautiful treasure in the universe, to me. It doesn’t judge, it just returns: “sow the wind, reap a whirlwind” or sow care, kindness, value, respect, love, directness, freedom, learning, and receive it back, multiplied. The universe provides exponential returns (pressed down, shaken together, running over) so I can’t ignore them. It’s coming back to you now, but more of it. It’s life being honest with me: here’s what you really are, here’s what you’ve really given, here’s the return on your contribution to the universe. The law of sowing and reaping (or karma, whatever you want to call it) is the practical working out of honesty. Knowing what I want starts with basic questions and honest answers: What do I want to give? What do I want to receive? Getting what I want starts with knowing what I want. Here are a few thoughts I have about honesty. ![]()
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