Love and truth. Does one lead to the other?
@innertalks (22118)
Australia
July 11, 2016 9:27pm CST
"Love is the deepest way to know truth. It is the only way to fully embrace the reality of this truth."
I read the gist of this idea in a religious book, which made it sound more complicated than just this.
Is this idea right or not, though?
The emptiness of yourself filled with the fullness of love allows the greater truth of the real reality to live in you, living past the falser reality of a separated self, by allowing that self to disappear into the nothingness of emptiness, only then to find itself then emerging from the fullness of God within itself, to be its real self, you.
Emptiness is often felt as being empty.
This happens when we do not reach real emptiness, but allow it to be mixed together with a sort of self-doubt that then malingers in us, manifesting in us as a loss of a resolve to do anything, but to give further life to these doubts in ourselves, rather than our having the courage to follow the faith aspects of a living love, that living from anything other than doubt will start to create in you, as much as we start moving in life, by not just waiting for it to come to us.
Doubts cover over both truth and love then. Do not allow them to do this for you, in your life.
What to you think about these issues?
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
2 Aug 16
@Shavkat, what points in life ?
I think it is during all of our life, all the time. Can you be more specific though ? any example from life ?
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@innertalks (22118)
• Australia
12 Jul 16
Yes, I agree, love and truth reveal the best of a person, and help to bring these deeper parts of a person to the "surface person" that they are living from now.
@innertalks (22118)
• Australia
12 Jul 16
I think this is also true even of our own personal truth, as well as in regards to higher truth.
Deception is never a part of love.
Truth is so honest that it can never be compromised, and your own personal truth, (the truth of who you really are, or your real self) must be followed in its entirety accepting the whole bundle with love to make it come really alive in you, by your being the real you.
This acceptance of your own personal truth allows love itself to lift you towards God, through your living of your own truth with his love, loving through you as you do. Love and truth are connected and interconnected. Truth can never exist apart from love, and love must contain truth to be given out fully as real love.
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@artemeis (4194)
• China
18 Jul 16
I don't see much relations between the both of them since all of us have different interpretations and therefore the differences in the way we love and want to be loved.
Through this imbalance the truth (real) has much difficulty thriving when all of us would have different expectations thus having different results at the end of the day.
Let me briefly elaborate, there will be some that cannot deal with the truth since it could be very brutal (betrayal) and devastating (bad news - terminal illness). So we always have people who simply cannot have that broader band in their hearts to accommodate the mistakes in life while another half will always be applying the anesthetic where he/she would not be asking the questions, he/she doesn't want the answers to.
Then there are the external factors, like an expressionist who goes about with the expression of negativity and pessimism every time something out of the unexpected or unfavorable happens. It will just kill any real intention from the other half to come straight with their wrongs.
Today's world seems to go about with partial wisdoms which goes like "better that you know how to wipe your mouth after" or "you better know your best to keep it for I don't want to hear it from someone else and certainly not from you". As cynical as this world can get when it comes to the truth, there's the other side that doesn't "really" want to know what the truth is. Forgiveness is definitely hard and flipping a new page is very arduous. We are all different and hence there is really no common yardstick here.
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@artemeis (4194)
• China
1 Aug 16
@innertalks
No matter how one would love oneself - truth will hurt when one experiences inequality, imbalance, injustice and betrayal.Hurt is inevitable and as a result we will all need to have the time to deal with it and move on.
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@innertalks (22118)
• Australia
1 Aug 16
@artemeis Perhaps you are not referring to spiritual truth here and God's love, as I am doing though, I suspect you are more thinking of human love, and human truth.
To me, the great inner emptiness of life is only filled up with real love, and higher truths.
Any hurt is caused by this emptiness spilling over you so to speak in such a way that you will not let the real or higher truths in to fill it up.
Truth cannot be hurt itself, but it can perhaps hurt others, not yet ready to hear it, even as Jesus Christ said in the Christian bible,
"I have many things to tell you, but you cannot bear to hear them yet."
@innertalks (22118)
• Australia
30 Jul 16
If we love truly, we will always be able to deal with the truth. It is when we lack love, either in ourselves or towards someone else, that we can't face the truth then either.
Is this true though?
The truth is always the truth. It can never hurt you, you always hurt yourself. Hurting yourself shows a lack of love towards yourself. Love and truth can neither be hurt. Hurt is a type of fear of what is, and that is all that it is.
@Shiva49 (26794)
• Singapore
15 Jul 16
I feel we should eschew ego, pride and greed that tend to overwhelm us in a material world.
Then we see the truth much more clearly and then the goal of love becomes clearer.
Creation is love and when we embrace love though our thinking and action we live a life of godliness - siva
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@innertalks (22118)
• Australia
15 Jul 16
Yes, I agree, if we get rid of some of these barriers currently set up in ourselves, that divert us from truth, or put something between us and the truth, we certainly should see the truth more clearly then, even as we will naturally become more loving, as we do so too.
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@innertalks (22118)
• Australia
15 Jul 16
@Shiva49 Well, the air we breathe is invisible and it seems certainly necessary for us to survive here, but I heard of a man that can hold his breath for ten minutes or so, and so even that barrier can be stretched a little it seems.
We should be flexible in our thinking in all things, otherwise barriers become too rigid, and restrict us too much, in our thinking and actions, as you just pointed out.
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@Shiva49 (26794)
• Singapore
15 Jul 16
@innertalks There are few invisible barriers that we think are necessary for our survival here; we should acknowledge them but they should not dictate our thought process, action and goals if we want a life of fulfillment - siva
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@Manishankarroy (180)
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15 Jul 16
Yes, the doubt should not be there where Love stays.
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@innertalks (22118)
• Australia
15 Jul 16
Yes, fear and doubt disappear when love stays around. Truth also dispels doubts.
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