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Truth Story:
sourced from Chris Walker International
One man accused another of cheating, the accused took out a knife
and killed the accuser. The murderer escaped and hid amongst thieves. One night
one of them accused him again of cheating, the accused once again pulled a knife
and took the others life. Of course, this accused was now in great fear of being
caught but everywhere he went, he was accused of this cheating.
One day, while hiding amongst the trees of a deep forest he
observed children playing. As they played one accused another of cheating. In
this case –the accused laughed, handed over the ball, and returned to the game.
No fight or aggression ensued. The escapee, sat amongst the trees and pondered
on this for 7 days and nights. Then he became aware that he really was cheating
all the time. Each time he had been accused of cheating, he had been. He had
killed people for telling him the truth… He had been so ashamed of this cheating
part of himself that he had killed, run away, hidden, abused and divorced
himself from the world.. he had isolated himself in a spiritual nirvana in order
to avoid accusation. His ego, was actually his master.
He approached the children. "Why", he said, "Do you not defend
yourself when you accuse each other of cheating"? One small boy, said with a
gentle smile, “Because it’s part of the game”
Questioningly the man stared at the child. The child continued,
“we were taught to play the game with fun, so we laugh a lot, and we catch each
other cheating, well that’s even funnier”
“But isn’t cheating bad” asked the man. “Only if you judge it so”
said the boy. “We know when someone is really cheating when they don’t like
being called a cheat. We know that that boy, is not in love with the game”
So the ancient story I just
made up finishes. The more we defend, the more we rationalize the truth, the
more we say we do –we don’t and the more we say we won’t we will.
True self worth comes not from the absence of a quality but from
it’s unashamed presence.
Can you laugh at you? Can you look in the mirror and still smile?
Are you always defending yourself? Are you always trying to deny who you really
are? Do you find yourself lying to please people because you are fearful of
their reaction? If so, there is a void, a separation between your mind and your
heart, a painful and terrible place to live. No wealth or disguise can bridge
this rift. You deserve to be loved for who you are and the only person on earth
who needs to know that, is you.
With Inspiration - Chris
Walker
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