Being honest and sharing the truth is the greatest gift we can give each other. Truth is the foundation for deeper meaningful relationships.
Bonds are formed by being honest and truthful, not by dishonesty and fearing to speak the truth. Fear of being able to express your voice makes you silence yourself and be inauthentic, which doesn't build a real, genuine authentic bond between people. Appearances and fakeness/falsity aren't the substance of truth that can get us to connect at a deeper real level.
Being real with someone is about being honest. Honesty forms real, authentic, genuine and true relationships.
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
- Henry David Thoreau
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If we want real love, we need to be real and speak the truth to people, not accepting falsity between us. This applies to both the truth about the world which is more impersonal, and what someone is experiencing inside to get someone else to connect at that personal level.
Truth matters. Trust matters. We don't "truth in others", but we do "trust in others". Trust is proxy for truth. If someone lies to us, they prevent us from having the truth by perpetuating falsity. If we learn about their lies and falsity, it's a form of disloyalty and betrayal, and we lose trust in them. Our trust, faith and loyalty in them gets destroyed in part or in whole.
This is how important truth is in being able to trust others. Don't lie to people, it comes back to hurt you in the end after you hurt others with your disloyalty and betrayal.
If you want to have the strongest relationships with others -- be they friends, family lovers or children -- give them the respect of being honest and truthful about what is real and unreal. That is how you build a bond, build trust, and build unity.
As soon as you say things that aren't true and act as if they are, you create a potential break in the bond and connection you can have with others. That bond may never be rebuilt as strong as it was or as it could have been.
To demonstrate the power of the negative or falsity in life, we can look at what is called a Truth Table, or Conjunction of Propositions. This demonstrates that if any of our premises are false, our conclusion will automatically be false as a result. This also applies in real life.
A proposed aspect of reality, a piece of knowledge, can be true (1), false (0) or probable (.n), whether a fact or a possibility. Conjunctions (or unity) of propositions/premises, form true conclusions if -- and only if -- all premises are true (Rule 1). The unity of a propositions forming a conclusion is false and negated if any one of the premises is false (Rule 2). Probable conclusions are also negated and false if any premise is false, otherwise their probabilities compound (Rule 3).
The only time you get a true result is if all constituent parts are true. This is the power of falsity and the negative. You could have 99 true premises, and if you have 1 false premise it will create a false conclusion. Falsity taken into a conclusion will corrupt and poison that conclusion.
This is the power of falsity. One false thing can destroy everything that was previously built. Relationships are fragile. Lies can destroy the relationship you built.
It takes work to build trust. But it's even harder to rebuilt trust that has been broken. It can be rebuilt in some cases, and in other cases it will never be at the same level of quality construction and solidity it was before.
Betrayal and disloyalty strike hard at the foundation of any relationship. Speak the truth even if it hurts, even if it's uncomfortable for others to hear. Truth is love, love is truth.
Sure, many have personal love in relationships, but so much of that is based on people not talking about serious issues that bother them. Our relationships and friendships are based on the ignorance of not saying things that might offend of insult another person and have them not like us. Relations are somewhat superficial in that case. Create authentic, genuine and real relationships instead by putting truth first.
Don't lie by willfully propagating falsity that robs people of the truth you can give them instead. Don't be a truth-stealer, be a truth-giver.
Truth is the greatest gift we can give or receive. Truth is the foundation for deeper relationships through open and honest communication. A deeper form of love and care can develop from authentically living in truth, trust and transparency. Do you have real love when someone lies to you? No. Truth matters and comes first.
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