It does not help us if those we love find their truth. They cannot give it to us. It does not help if someone we love knows a particular truth in our life. We must discover our truth for ourselves.
We must each discover and stand in our own light.
We often need to struggle, fail, and be confused and frustrated. That's how we break through our struggle; that's how we learn what is true and right for ourselves.
We can share information with others. Others can tell us what may predictably happen if we pursue a particular course. But it will not mean anything until we integrate the message and it becomes our truth, our discovery, and our knowledge.
There is no easy way to break through and find our truth.
But we can and will, if we want to.
We may want to make it easier. We may nervously run to friends, asking them to give us their truth or make our discovery easier. They cannot. Light will shed itself in its own time.
Each of us has our own share of truth, waiting to reveal itself to us. Each of us has our own share of the light, waiting for us to stand in it, to claim it as ours.
Encouragement helps. Support helps. A firm belief that each person has truth available - appropriate to each situation - is what will help.
Each experience, each frustration, each situation, has its own truth waiting to be revealed. Don't give up until you find it - for yourself.
We shall be guided into truth, if we are seeking it. We are not alone.
Today, I will search for my own truth, and I will allow others to do the same. I will place value on my vision and the vision of others. We are each on the journey, making our own discoveries - the ones that are right for us today.
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
This is an interesting thought, and I guess it is true sometimes. I think it kind of invalides most of the sharing we do though, because it is such a blanket statement. The truth is that alcohol is a poison, and too much of it can kill you. Now this thought says that.. people have to just find that out for themselves.
I guess it goes to the question of the definition of 'truth', and I think confuses it with the term 'perspective'. There are also a few aspects to the general word 'truth'; there being 'objective truth' which is outside of us an beyond us,, like 'the world is round', and 'subjective truth' which is inside of us,, like I feel sad, or I like chocolate, or I want to be a lawyer, or I am good at math, or things that really are personal variables that differ with each person who is experiencing something.
So there is a big difference between the truth that a blind person cannot see womthing that is objectively there, and the inability of other people to understand my philosophy of art. The difference between the objective truth that making burglary into a career will end up badly, and the subjective truth of trying to make the best use of my particular talents in choosing to be a carpenter over a rocket scientist.
we do say, twynaltr becaause although there is the reality of objective truth, none of us completely comprehends it, and we share the perspectives that we have from the position and experiences we each have had and the colored lens of our attitudes that tint what we see.
love in recovery,
amanda
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