Once gender ceases to follow biological reality, fantasy overwhelms reality, lie covers truth, and human beings disappear into the darkness of their own making.
When we make mistakes, our first option is to look for ways to rationalize it to soften the brunt of responsibility to such an error. If we give in to this natural and worldly impulse at hiding in the darkness of mental somersaults, we will end up no longer seeing that what we tried to see as right is actually wrong. And our souls just plunge itself into its self-imposed darkness.
Our perception is our reality. If we perceive that the food and water before us is reeking with unseen fecal dirt, we will not eat the food or drink the water. Our perception though does not dictate the truth; neither our reality does. Truth is because it is.
Many times the system that supposed to get to the truth of things and to administer justice withholds instead the truth and in so doing fails to bring justice where and when it should.
Our lives mean something of value only when we stand for the truth. If others would refuse, and even bend over back to withhold, the truth, just enjoy the better part of the difference that you have with you.
Honesty is the essential ingredient of trust. Anyone who cannot be honest with you, you simply cannot trust, unless the bare truth can hurt your feelings, and she knows that, and simply wants to look for the right time to say it. Withholding the truth is telling a lie.
When the guardians of truth learned to look with jaundiced eyes, and no longer able to look the truth straight in the eyes as the bubbling egos colored their perceptions, God help the faithful.
It is difficult to distinguish between the truth and the lie, especially when you have lived a lie that you have come to believe as the truth. (Photo courtesy of Discover Magazine )
We look at people, things, events, and situations in our lives with sets of lenses that color the way we interact with life. The darker these lenses are the more removed we become from the truths that can enhance the depth and breadth of our lives. Until we remove the darkness in these lenses, good things will appear foreboding and deceptive things become very convincing. And all of life becomes a lie.
A statement containing a lie, even if it contains some truths also, is nevertheless a lie. A white lie is, as what its name defines, a lie. There is no such thing as an accidental lie. It is always a deliberate untruth.
Those who truly search for the truth will find truth even from the most unlikely places. Those who seek the truth only with their mouths will never recognize the truth even when paraded before their very eyes.