The Strong Arm of the Ego: On Truth, Perception, and the Human Condition

The ego has a strong-arm over us in many ways.

How many truths have we denied—on both the individual and collective level—because of the figure who spoke them, or the group they were associated with?

Think about what you consider to be true.

Now realize—someone else might not be able to hear or accept that truth simply because of who you are… or the group you belong to.

Does that make your truth false?

Do you see the madness now?

Truth is absolute—

It is our perception and perspective of it that isn’t.

I always held this belief:

If we have to fight for a truth, maybe it lacks something.

If you're afraid that someone—perhaps even yourself—might disprove what you claim as truth, then maybe it isn't.

So why do we fight so hard for what is truth?

The answer: tangible belief.

It is absolute—and it is also abstract, formless.

But we, in the limitation of our human condition, bend it out of shape—

To mold it into our own narrative of what is,

what was,

and what is to become.

Complicated, indeed—

Yet not.

If we’re to insist on a collective truth,

We must have a common foundation.

We must come together—

Regardless of who we are, what we are, or where we've come from.

"So what is true?"

It’s how it resonates with you,

regardless of what's around you.

And when you're willing to accept truth—

God will speak it through you.

In you.

If your essence seeks a higher vibration—seeks oneness—

Your spirit will help you discern and decipher your experiences, your tells, your truths.

And the greater challenge?

To let the noise be just noise.

To not let it in unless you choose to.

Like the wind—

It will bash against you,

It will encapsulate you…

But you get to decide whether or not to breathe it in.

And nothing says you can’t incorporate it into who you are—

So long as you remember:

It isn’t you