“We found the Great Reality deep down within us.” (Page 55)
If someone asks me if I’m happy or if I’m OK or if things are going well, and I feel awful and I’m not OK and things are not going well, what do I say?
If I complain about my feelings, my experiences, my circumstances, or events that are happening around me, or my life in general, people might generally say I’m being honest.
I’m certainly being candid. If I’m unhappy, it is true that I’m unhappy, but the mental narrative attached to the unhappiness is untrue. If I recount that mental narrative, I’m actually being dishonest: I’m not recounting the Great Reality. In other words I’m being candid but dishonest.
What would the truth be?
Long version: I’m happy, I’m OK, things are going well, but I can’t see it today, because I think bad thoughts and am conceited enough to believe them. That’s now perfectly candid and perfectly honest.
Short version: I’m happy, I’m OK, things are going well. That’s not candid but it is honest.
When I start to affirm the truth rather than the lies of the ego, I start to realise that only the truth is true.