It doesn’t matter how honest we ‘think’ we’re being with ourselves – if over 90 percent of our consciousness is UNconscious then we can only be as honest as our conscious awareness allows us to be.
We can be honest about our blindness to ourselves.
We can be honest about the fact that there’s stuff we don’t know or want to know (or avoid) about ourselves.
We can be honest about our dishonesty (conscious or otherwise) with ourselves.
What’s potentially more important than honesty is an open mind, an open heart, and a willingness to go where we’ve avoided going before. Only then will we arrive at the parts of ourselves we didn’t know were there, and it’s THEN that we realize dishonesty isn’t always a conscious matter. Dishonesty can be, and usually is, hidden behind a veil of delusion, ignorance, arrogance, ego, denial, conditioning, and mental limitation.
And I’m not speaking about ‘them’ here. I’m speaking about you. I’m speaking about me. I’m speaking about the whole damn lot of us. We are all just hauling ourselves out of the shadows of delusion, and when we get honest about THAT, the rest gently, and sometimes not quite so gently, unfolds itself and we finally start to see ourselves for who we’ve always been.
And when we start to really see ourselves, we stop judging others. Because we realize we’ve ALL been there, taken in by this society, swaddled in the wiring of suffering. When you get honest with yourself about your unconscious dishonesty, you’re breaking through the armour of confinement, and stepping forward to take the reins of integrity and ownership for your own personal journey.
We’re all on that journey, all walking each other into our highest truths. And those highest truths are buried beneath a plethora of unconscious shadow traits that are just waiting for the light of awareness to be shone upon them.
When you feel your light is ready, I can hold your torch till you find your way. We are ALL doing this. There is no one better or superior or more ahead. We are ALL doing this, in our own unique way, either now or later.