Being able to search for truth requires great deal of endurance and being able to tell the truth requires great deal of courage. Seeking and finding truth is like building and having a spiritual home. It is not an isolated existence at all, to the contrary, it is an existence in fullness with depth. It is important how we set our priorities in life. We are emotional creatures and reactive when we hear certain things which may conflict with what we believe or want to believe.
The resistive elements -the ego- within us would try hard to keep us in our comfort zone when our essence is challenged, even if our comfort zones may resemble to hells. We may not be aware of many things that subtly goes on in the backgrounds of our hearts and minds. Cultivating change is an excruciatingly painful process. There is a constant war that is going on between darkness and light inside our beings, until to the point when we can submit ourselves to the voice of the supreme speaker in our hearts.
The greatest threat to the status quo is a contemplative mind, because its very presence calls into questions many of the shared delusions on which a lot of current social and cultural activity is based. Attempting to remove anyone’s delusions is dangerous! Clearly, most people would naturally be frightened of seeing the reflections of truth in themselves. Sometimes, this exile from reality really hurts.
Throughout history, seekers of truth have been outcast. If you are an outcast then you should ask yourself, is it because of truth or your own foolish pride. Some seem to fit nowhere but within place of singular ineptitude.
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Yilmaz Alimoglu
June 28th, 2012
Copyright © Yilmaz Alimoglu 2010-20
Agreed. Yilmaz. To know the truth one must know oneself, then be truthful to that self – not to someone else, and not propaganda in all it’s forms, from malign influences to the unsubtle jingoistic and pseudo-patriotic excuses for creating terror and waging war.
Thank you for thoughtful comment, Ken. You have immensely contributed to this page. I am grateful to know you.
Too true, Yilmaz. Too true!