Honesty, the Only Policy

All internal peace is contingent upon my ability to be completely honest with myself.

This is the absolute beginning point of any true quest for inner peace.

Until I am able to monitor my self talk, and consciously release that which is untruthful, my experience of peace will be very short lived.

Truth is an unavoidably essential building block for a life experience of peace. Anything built on a lie is an illusion. Anything based in illusion is doomed to fail.

Quoting Ken Keyes again, from his Handbook to Higher Consciousness, “I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keeps me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.” -7th of the 12 pathways

I have absolutely no hope of being able to rid myself of this illusion of separateness until I am able to be fully honest with myself. It is impossible for me to be totally honest with another until I have established this relationship with myself.

The only way to break free from the bondage of my illusory programming is by focusing on TRUTH. Anything I am invested in which results in a less-than-peaceful experience is built on a lie.

Many of us can not even tell the difference. We have lived with lies for so long, they have become our truths. But, the bottom line is that no matter how tightly we cling to our lies, they will never be the TRUTH!

The TRUTH always leads to peace, harmony, and love because that is what the TRUTH is. Those programs that we are so comfortable with that result in pain, suffering, unhappiness, and dissatisfaction; they all teach us that “we have accepted, as our truth, that which is not TRUE”. We have accepted illusion and decided it was truth.

Today, I will be aware of my self talk. Today I will halt, in its tracks, any program that I have accepted as my truth, which results in my feeling “less than loving” towards myself or others.

Today I commit to being totally honest with myself. I will take notice of stories that I am telling myself, about myself or others, which no longer serve me. I release those stories from my programming.

From this day forward, I will be totally and completely honest with myself.

It’s not like I have ever fooled myself anyway!