No one is moved to lie to another without first having lied to himself about himself.
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Learn to Expose Unconscious Wrongness
- Posted: Monday, March 17, 2014
- 437 words
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A crisis arises when some lie we have deceived ourselves with is revealed to be just that: a lie. But never are the healing powers of the truth so close as when a crisis is at hand.
The reason a crisis must precede each new level of authentic self-unity is that the crisis, whatever it may be, points out where we have been holding on to a particular belief, a shaky pretense, or some flattering but deceptive self-image that is in conflict with reality. Where there is conflict there is always pain, and by the time this unconscious kind of psychological or emotional pain reaches the level of our consciousness, we generally experience it as some kind of a crisis. So what we call a personal "crisis" is really that moment when some previously invisible conflict within us becomes temporarily visible. Let's take an example.
A woman has always thought of herself as being loving and kind, but all at once she begins to notice how critical and cruel her thoughts are toward others. She sees that she only does things for others to have them think of her as being kind, and this fills her day with resentment. She has reached a turning point.
In this instance, the terrible cost of living from lying but flattering self-images has suddenly become conscious, and the only alternative that the false self has, as the author of these self-deceptive lies, is to start blaming everyone and everything for the unhappy circumstances. This maneuver is almost fail-safe for the false self. By seeing to it that everything outside of it is constantly laid to blame, it keeps us fighting with life instead of learning from it. It is really very cunning. The more we take the side of defending what is wrong within us, the more the truth that exposed this unconscious wrongness appears to be against us.
The truth never causes pain. The only pain in a crisis is the false self's resistance to the truth. A crisis only becomes a breaking point when we fail to use it as a turning point. In order to transform a crisis into a personal turning point in your life, you must wish to be shown the lesson in the crisis rather than allow yourself to be convinced by it that the world is against you. This higher wish, followed by your willingness to endure a new kind of pain, gives birth to a higher consciousness in you that belongs to your true nature. This elevated consciousness never has to solve a crisis because it never has one in the first place.
Excerpted From: The Secret of Letting Go pages 132-135
- Topics:
- Painful Patterns
- False Self
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