Playing it straight up, living from the heart, no contriving, conniving, scheming, lying, deceiving, pretending, not being true to ourselves... is something we have to live our way into being truthful from the inside out. We cannot be truthful from the outside in-- because someone tells us to. We can only be truthful because we are, because we have lived long enough to know it is the only way to be. Truthful: integrity, sincerity, spontaneity, straight from the heart, because we must be because we know so and not because someone, our parents, say, told us so. We have to live our way to knowing so. What we know for sure, for certain, for always, is what we know in our bones. In our stomach. In our heart. In our body. Because we have lived our way there. It is what we are living for. It is who we are living to be. Our live will lead us there, if we live long enough. And, may we all!
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Truth!
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