THE PAIN OF TRUTH TO GAIN CONSCIOUSNESS

RECOGNIZED BY DR. CARL JUNG

It takes courage for us to shut away our comfortable fantasies, our lies to ourselves, and to look clearly at the unyielding truth that stares at us.

Yes, truth at first glimpse, often appears painful, but with time we come to see it as our best friend. Once accepted, truth will not desert us. Lies always stab us in the back, especially when we lie to ourselves.

Apparently comfortable self-lies first give the false ease of “I’m ok”. It feels good, at first, to convince ourselves we are wise and good, and everybody loves us. Then over time we come to discover the truth, and it hurts. The sooner this happens, the better.

Now pain is less than tomorrow pain.

It is human to lie to ourselves in order to build the illusion we are who we think we want to be, ought to be. It hurts to discover the truth of who we are.

None or us is all bad, incompetent, inadequate for our assignment. But, few of us consistently feel, in the secrets of our hearts, that we are entirely competent and adequate. Only those professional liars who have lived lives of lying to themselves come to actually believe those endlessly repeated lies.

Those unfortunate pathologically compulsive liars have doomed themselves to living a false life, to living the great lie they have become mentally incapable of seeing. You know at least one prominent politician who fits this description.