Why the truth seems hard to accept?

The truth is everywhere; it will be presented to you through one million angles and in every form and flavor. It will look you in the eye, howl to you, and even beg you to see it. In spite of all its persistence many will still pass it by and ignore it. I am not saying they will not see it or recognize it, I am saying ignore it. It is easy to recognize the truth as it is ingrained in our souls. The thing that is becoming harder and harder for us is to embrace it.

But why is that?

The reason why we keep running from it is simply because it contradicts our conditioning of what life is all about. This simple and deep knowledge of what truly makes sense and of our true purpose of why we are on Earth is strongly against all that we learned about what makes us happy in this life. We are living in a material world that strongly emphasis the value of material ownership and power. Imagining that happiness and wholesome lives can exist without power or a material gain is quite hard for most of us.

It is just consistent with God/higher power/collective consciousness mercy and wisdom that the truth be available in bare sight and in abundance to all humans and all creatures who would be able to embrace it and benefit from it in their journey of growth and completion. The truth is not suppose to be a hidden secret is hard to discern or understand without some special complicated or higher intellectual learning. The truth is like air. It is as essential if not more to the human heart to exist and to our lives to be real as air it is to our living bodies. 

It is consistent with that mercy and wisdom that basic human needs such as spiritual nourishment and happiness to be free and easy to gain.

This mercy is promising us if we open to this simple and basic truth that all life will be much easier for us, that our struggles will ease and in some cases will be almost none existent and that our strives will be answered with rewards that we can only imagine at the moment in this life and all those lives that we are promised to journey through. 

We live this life in an illusion strengthened by others. Our parents and siblings, our communities and our media constantly emit messages that strengthen these illusions. The illusion that more of the material means more satisfaction and happiness, that certain possessions are a must for a successful life, that beauty has outside parameters that one has to meet to be loved and greatly accepted in the world, that one has to fit within this chaos in order to be happy and content.

As a result, many of our “sane” decisions are directed towards fulfilling those goals. We work in professions we do not like with people we feel unhappy around, we marry based on external beauty, wealth and class and we live our lives in constant work and strive to acquire as many worldly possessions as we can afford and sometimes beyond what we can afford. We struggle to keep an external shell of success and power thinking this is what will draw people love and respect to us. We seem to still in an elementary class trying to make our teachers pride us on our accomplishments and our class mates envy us on our success, our parents feel proud and satisfied with us on our advanced positions in this rat race.

But are we happy?

Are our lives peaceful?

Do we feel joy as a constant basic state of our life not as fleeting rare scattered moments?

Most people do not even believe that joy can be a constant state of being, that happiness is a way of living or that peace is a deserved inner state that one can obtain and hold on in this Earthly existence.

In the following posts we will explore how to escape such conditioning and find the way to true joy and completion.