“No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth,” Martha Beck.   I want to share a short reminder about truth.  The soul knows what it wants and we can cover that up with tons of activity and staying busy but if we aren’t doing what the soul wants, we will feel it.  We need to know the truth.  We need to express truth.  We need to align with truth.  If we don’t then we are out of sync and we lose touch with what we are meant to do.  We often speak of painful truths coming from other people as if their words are what will cut us down.  That may be true if we let that happen, but the most painful truth is the one we have to face in ourselves.  We need to know where we have lied to ourselves, where have we hidden true desire with comfort, where have we hidden the key to what we want and who we want to be.  We can only mask who we are if we allow it, and if we are really honest with ourselves, we lie to ourselves all the time.  It doesn’t matter if it’s about breaking habits or wasting time or how we care for ourselves, we always convince ourselves that it isn’t really us doing it.

The most painful sound and the most glorious relief come when we face our truth.  We are the ones who hold the key to change our lives, all we have to do is step through the door and learn to acclimate to something new.  The more we align with that truth the better we feel.  The easier it is to express who we are.  The less we feel like it’s a chore to get through the day to day.  Life is no longer a grind or something we get through—and there isn’t an end goal where we feel like it will get better when it goes a certain way or when we achieve a certain goal.  We simply live and we are happy in that existence.  We need to get honest about who we are, what we want, who we surround ourselves with, and how we spend our days and ask if that matches up with what and who we want to be.  Stop pretending someone has tied a blindfold over you when it’s you who needs to simply open your eyes.  The world opens up as soon as we remove that veil.  Life won’t always be comfortable or predictable—all we can do is learn to get comfortable in our own skin and trust that we will make the right decision for us and we will end up where we need to be as long as we are aligned with our truth.