honesty

when is honesty the hardest to swallow? when you have to be truly, totally and completely honest with yourself...when you find that your next step cannot be made without taking that long, hard look in the mirror, only to face layer upon layer of work still needing to be done...work in progress, yeah, we be that but, we don't face that...it is what it is, until we bring all our mess of emotion and judgment to the table...if we were to peel away the heartbreak we've "decided" to experience, if we could detach ourselves from the emotional standpoint of the situation, whatever it may be...could we still consider ourselves human? or, would we be at the standpoint of Spirit? would we retain some semblance of compassion for the ego facets of ourselves or would we simply turn our backs and walk away? i dunno...nor am i meant to know at this time...i can say, however, what i hope...i would hope that the compassion remain intact...that we look upon "ourselves" with a loving kindness that is borne from that divine place in all of us, outside of us...that place that is us...to the point of this post, or is there a point? perhaps these musings are simply the attempt to capture a momentary glance into why it is we would lie...to each other and, to ourselves...what is the point? who are we trying to fool...in the end, one way or another, it all comes clean in the wash...why tolerate the stains we create with our untruths when the honest truth is so much so the best way to go? difficult tho' it may be to face oneself...the walk into the fire permits the rebirth of greatness, if only we can summon forth that strength to bear that sweet pain...burn away all the facades we've taken so long to build up around us...make the vulnerable in us strong so that when all is said and done, all that is left is all that truly matters...all that is left is the real, most venerated part of who we are...Divine...