Motives, Truth, Results

Sooner or later, all motives make their way to the sur­face. Some get there sooner than oth­ers. The same is true with truth itself. There is some­thing about the uni­verse that has a way of even­tu­ally expos­ing all lies. We humans may have many flaws, but deep within our com­mon soul is the voice that knows all and never set­tles for par­tial truths. When ignored or buried, it sim­ply finds other ways to become apparent.

We were designed to be wise. Wis­dom exam­ines its own motives — know­ing they are mixed — but acknowl­edg­ing that whole-hearted liv­ing is of a bet­ter qual­ity than merely going along with the crowd. Many books, plays, and movies use this theme. Spir­i­tual heal­ing hap­pens when we are part of watch­ing por­tray­als of mythic char­ac­ters find­ing and fac­ing the truth that sets them free. Inside we hope to do the same.

In the end, we are unable to suc­cess­fully lie to our­selves. There is a lot of really good news in that. The qual­ity of our motives deter­mines ulti­mate out­comes. Sin­cer­ity is deeper than manip­u­la­tion. It has the bedrock of Ulti­mate Real­ity beneath it. The jour­ney of life is the trip away from and back to our essen­tial nature. It is a wonder-filled experience.

All mate­r­ial results are tem­po­rary. Empires rise and fall. Tech­nolo­gies come and go. Truth is eter­nal. Expe­ri­enc­ing it is beyond any other sen­sa­tion. At times it may seem uncom­fort­able, but in the end truth never actu­ally ends and can never be fooled. Make friends with it. You do not want it to be your cho­sen enemy. There is a world of dif­fer­ence in that par­tic­u­lar fork in the road.