T-ruth
🩲 Lying bare
or bearing lies? 🧸
Truth is simple,
common, and easy.
It is not hard to find,
hard to accept,
hard to recognize, or
hard to hear.
We know Truth in a flash.
We see Truth when we sit still,
in silence, alone,
until we are less afraid.
It doesn’t require sitting still,
or taking a stand,
or silence, or solitude.
But all that helps.
👻 We see Truth
when we face death
and smile 😺
We see Truth
when we give more than we have,
when we love recklessly,
when we run amok in love,
when we go hog wild,
when we’re all in
love.
We see Truth when
all at once
we stop trying
and stop trying
to stop trying.
Truth hides in plain sight,
right behind our eyes.
It’s written all over our faces
whenever we’re not on brand,
in character or en flique.
💓 Truth beats in our chest
It courses through our veins 🩸
It’s widely available,
readily apparent.
Truth needs no introduction, no defense, no support, no argument.
Like Consciousness
,
truth just is,
believe in it or not.
We feel its proof.
Faith is a poor substitute
for a palpable, visceral encounter with Truth.
♻️ To be believing is
to be living a lie
Unlike climate change
or the Berenstæin Bears
it can’t be denied.
Truth is as invincible
as it is vulnerable.
Admit it or not, Truth waits.
The way to undo the effects of a lie is to reveal it. That is how to remove the pellet and clean the wound. Charles Eisenstein
🏔️ Truth can’t be spun
or messaged,
stolen or hidden away,
interpreted or twisted 🐍
Truth doesn’t wait for Disclosure 👽
because it can’t be hidden
only forgotten.
Truth will not be televised.
It cannot be viewed,
broadcast, syndicated,
or live-streamed—
but only felt, lived,
understood 🌴
Truth must be breathed,
embodied, experienced
first-person plural.
There is no them,
only us.
And we are True,
to the core.
At the root of that Well of Being
dug down deep in our heart center
pools the primordial soup
the source of all possibilities,
silent and ready to foam up:
the infinite cauldron of Truth.
As you can tell,
Truth is not for sale .
When “the truth”
is bought or sold,
it is really propaganda
in disguise 😷
For Truth is
not yours or mine,
but yours and mine 👐
Truth, like justice,
is for one and all,
or for no one at all. 😶
Something we often forget…
The experience of forgetting truth is what many now call “reality”.
Truth is forgotten in four modes:
(paraphrasing Victor Klemperer via Timothy Snyder )
1. Open hostility to verifiable reality
e.g., “Fake News” or “Birthers” or “Flat-Earthers”
2. Shamanistic incantation
e.g. “The Unclean Un🐄ed”, “Build Back Better”, or “MAGA”
3. Magical thinking
e.g. “Elections are rigged, but my vote counts.”
4. Misplaced faith
e.g. “Believe in Science. Fauci will save us. Trust the CDC, FDA, NIH, and the TLA.”