about telling the truth about life

Telling yourself the truth about yourself or your life is difficult because when you tell yourself the truth you may need to tell yourself things you don't want to admit. Telling yourself the truth is difficult because there is the chance of telling yourself a truth that can destroy you if you do not have a firm foundation in life. Sometimes it is easier to live a lie than it is to tell the truth, but living a lie puts you in prison. Telling the truth, even the worst truth, sets you on a path to freedom. Sometimes we do not want to tell the truth about life because life is too full of pain and darkness and telling the truth just piles on more of the pain. It is hard to admit that life is full of pain and darkness.

Then to admit we sometimes cannot do anything about the pain and darkness that plagues us is even more difficult of an admission. To admit we cause some of the pain and darkness in ourselves and in others is often too much for some of us to bear, so we lie to ourselves rather than telling ourselves the truth. However, there is a glorious and grand result from telling ourselves the truth about our life. The glorious and grand result of telling ourselves the truth is that we can be released from the prison of our lies, freed from the prison of our guilt and shame, and set free from the chains of our denial.