To find truth, you must open yourself up to it. Forget all that you think you know, and embrace all that you don't. Honesty and Trust are the legs that truth stands on and without them the entire body collapses. In your search for spiritual truth, you need to first be honest with yourself, then others, for if you can't tell yourself the truth how could you possibly share it with others.
Honesty with yourself is the most important type of truth. It is the first step in finding any kind of spiritual truth. By cheating yourself, you achieve nothing. You are unable to develop any further as a person spiritually. You have an obligation to yourself, as a child of God you deserve the truth. There is no one on earth that it hurts more to lie to than yourself. If you can not trust yourself who can you trust.
Another essential part of your internal spirituality is centering our lives around our Lord. We must place God at the core of our being and allow everything to revolve around Him. We must keep close to this spiritual spot, it is our soul place. We must resist straying from this center and becoming wrapped up in our lives. Or, allowing something else to sit it this most sacred spot, that is less than Godly.
Once we learn to be honest with ourselves we can being working on being honest with others. Sometimes a fabrication or a hyperbole of the facts may sound more impressive and may be more entertaining. But, eventually everything catches up with you. One lie usually leads to another and another. Not only to cover up the false facts of the previous lie, but also because it becomes addictive. Some of the creative tales that have unfolded in conversation still surprise me. Everyone wants to have a better story than the next guy, but is it worth it. The story only lasts the moment and it taints the memory of the events. Plus, most people can see through the slyest narrator. You can not find truth wh
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