There is No Game Based on Truth
By Nadia Khalil Bradley
What does it mean to lie to life? Why is it the most dangerous thing we can do to our souls? Why are we disappointed when we lie and then share that lie with others, ironically, to make it more true? We think we are relieving ourselves by lying and yet, the lie turns on us. It turns on everyone involved. We lie to fill our needs of attention, honor and integrity – whether it is real or perceived. We lie the most when our self worth is compromised; when our self worth is beat up so much that it can’t stop us from lying.
So why do we lie?
We lie as a way to buffer ourselves from life. We lie in order to hold everything in place while we come to terms with ourselves. We lie in order to see what happens to us when we do not take care of ourselves. We lie to buy time; to see how it feels when we get away with something; to see how it is when another person believes us; to be better than we think we are; to say that we are important (because in reality we think we are not); to mask our fear of believing the truth; and most of all, we lie because we do not have enough faith in ourselves or in life to tell the truth.
Lying is the opposite of telling the truth. Telling the truth rests us and lying brings about chaos in our hearts. Lying is so cheap that we can’t even remember the lies we told; however, everyone else does. People remember the lies we’ve told word for word and we are reminded of it when the truth finally comes out – and it always does.
NO ONE WANTS TO LIE. The liar themselves sets things up in order to get caught. Why?
When we lie we lose faith in ourselves and in others: with us for telling the lie and with others for believing us. When we lie and someone believes us, we feel sad inside that another human being believes something that is not true. We then feel that they weren’t really paying attention to us. Even if their gut reaction was that we were lying, they still believe us. That’s when they respect for themselves and for us. This is all happens before judgment hits the conscious level and we even have a moment to think about it.
We don’t want someone to believe our lies, we want to be caught. When we are caught we become free to not only tell the truth about that particular lie, but also about anything else we want to be honest about. That very truth is our own personal freedom. We no longer have to think about the consequences of telling the truth, and we no longer have to go on the sliding slope of emotions and continue to lose faith in us as people.
We have gotten to the point where we are treating truth as an option. It never was an option. And yet, we are hardwired for the truth so much that the minute we tell a lie we instantly feel like we will make everything okay someday by telling the truth “when it’s time”. We believe telling a lie is a temporary option or that we will somehow do what we lied about so that it will not be a lie anymore. We start thinking in terms of doing damage control and we start setting up plan of sorts to eventually come clean. We do this simply to feel we still have some kind of faith in ourselves and so that we can try to sleep at night, even though we’ve just weighted our soul down with one more piece of baggage.
We find out that the truth is worth more to us than we thought. The truth becomes something we aspire to be and to do. The truth is a reminder of our higher self. When honesty is not in your home, then it becomes a house rather than a home. The air becomes clouded and no air traffic control in the world would be able to sort it out.
The truth is the elephant in the room; the lie is the tiny lid we try to cover the elephant with. An elephant may move slowly because it is enormous, yet it is steady, true, gentle and loving once we get to it.
The truth wants nothing from us. Quite the opposite, it tells us to forgive ourselves for evading it and rewards our souls with internal comfort for freeing it. That very feeling, once we get to it, reminds us why we do not want to leave the truth behind. The truth reminds us that we are way better than any lie we’ve ever told and it clears and cleans our souls better than anything we could have ever said or bought to cover it up. The truth just stays there in the background waiting to restore our faith in life when it is finally found out.
When we lie it is the first thing we think about before we go to sleep and it is what keeps us awake at night. It is the tug of war we feel when we wake up and when we speak. The lie is the pressure that we feel bearing down on us; we know that we are susceptible to lying again and in doing so we’ll be adding more weight to our shoulders.
The advice from the truth?
The only advice the truth has is to tell it. You know why. It knows why. We know why. There’s no need to outsmart the truth; the truth is above all the games. There is no game based on truth.
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Nadia Khalil Bradley is the author of “Little Wing” and “Origins of Truth.” She is getting ready to release her latest book, “Original Love.” Nadia is a teacher of accountability, growth and love. Through her books and writings she takes your soul on a journey of self discovery that will ultimately lead you to live in a state of utmost truth, love and purity. Visit Nadia at Nadiakhalil.com to learn more.
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