Warrior of truth

Are you uncertain about whether or not you are being and living in your truth?
Is being and living in your truth about speaking honestly and acting with integrity?
Have you noticed how being and living in your truth influences the relationships around you?
What do you see?

That tension and arguments are ripples on a deep body of water of mistrust and festering resentments?
That drama doesn't begin to touch what really needs addressing?
Are you ready to swim deeper and move into what might arise as a consequence?

There is familiarity in choosing to experience tension, arguments and negativity.
Easier than facing the unknown to embrace change?
Blame is a weapon and a shield that we use to protect ourselves.
Warrior, where are you?
Is it easier to say it is the other, when it triggers more frustration, resentment and negativity?

Do you believe that authentic communication and being is hallowed ground, a treasured prize, a birth right?
Is it borne from what appears to be a challenging and tiring cycle of struggle and adversity?
Surely we should earn it. What is valuable and precious must be fought for. No pain, no gain?

But still, is being authentic and living in our truth supposed to be so hard?
And should we discard the relationships that we are struggling with as if they are dead weights that are oppressing and holding us back?
Is negativity and discord a signal that we should pay greater attention to, and how?
What if such energy could be present without judgment of what is good, what is bad, what is right and what is wrong?
What then of our warrior of truth, unarmed?

A thought or two and simply that - being authentic and living in our truth might not be a solitary journey so much as an experience and one that embraces relationship itself.
Our journey, should we perceive it, might not be linear and progressive so much as circular and inclusive - with no one true path and no one true way.
What would it mean that I am to you as you are to me?
That we are truly one?

The most powerful presence on this planet could be one that is open, attentive and responsive and yet our culture and history and experience has taught us something else about power - but then, our story is incomplete, isn't it?

And whilst we ask, we do not know.