Without Honesty Our Old Patterns Repeat Ad Nauseam

Someone recently asked me what I see as the most important quality to have along the spiritual path and I said honesty – with ourself.

Honesty paves the way toward openness and curiosity and dishonesty closes us down and shuts us off from our natural spirit of inquisitiveness.

Especially for those who have been on the path for years and know all the spiritual concepts it’s so easy to get caught up in believing those concepts without really knowing the truth they are pointing to. And this is where honesty comes in.

Whenever we’re suffering it’s so helpful to be honest about that suffering.

If we suffer and then tell ourself or others that  “Suffering is an illusion. There is no one here that is suffering. I know I am whole already.” then we’re relying on our beliefs and we’re closed to discovering the truth. We’re not curious about finding out what is actually true because we believe we know what is true.

And if we suffer and are honest about that suffering this honesty paves the way toward openness and curiosity to discover what is actually true - 
and then questions may begin to arise naturally.

Questions like “What is actually true?”…"What is my true nature?"...“What am I really?”… “Is it true that I need him/her to stop doing that in order to know peace?”… “Is peace here now?”… ”Am I lacking anything?”…”What actually is creating the sense of lack?”… ”If wholeness is true then why don’t I always sense that?”… ”Is it that wholeness is gone or that the sense of wholeness is only veiled?”… ”What is actually creating the veiling?”…

Honesty, every step of the way, is foundational. 

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My book, The Human Experience is the Dance of Heaven and Earth, includes a chapter on honesty.  If you'd like to purchase the book the link is below. Or if you'd just like to read the chapter itself email me a request at (dhyanastanley(a)gmail.com) and I'll send it free.
 
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