Truth

     “Truth is a very high standard. Truth is not a plaything. To tell what is true within ourselves is not to tell what we think; it is not to tell our opinion. It is not to dump the garbage can of our mind onto somebody else. All of that is illusion, distortion, projection. Truth is not unloading our opinions onto someone. That is not truth. Truth is not telling our beliefs about things. That is not truth. Those are ways that we actually hide from truth.
     Truth is much more intimate than that. When we tell the truth, it has the sense of a confession. I don’t mean in a confession of something bad or wrong, but I mean the sense that we come completely out of hiding. Truth is a simple thing. To speak the truth is to speak from a sense of total and absolute unprotectedness.”

       Adyashanti. "The End of Your World. Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment." Sounds True, Boulder, Colorado, 2010. 

     See also: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2012/12/self-knowledge-depth-and-healing.html

http://robertpopefoundation.com/about-robert-pope/his-perspectives/

Artist: Robert Pope