What, you may ask, is the beauty of living in truth and transparency.
There is everything to that, genuineness for one, beauty in itself.
I first embarked on this path as a nun.
We were told to choose one word from the Bible.
I took a mental look into the Bible and saw Truth.
I made that my leitmotif in life and chose to follow truth wherever it leads me.
My focus however was initially on truths about myself,
I pursued that ruthlessly, relentlessly, leaving no stones unturned.
When my entire being shrinks from looking at something.
It is then I force myself to look at whatever is lurking in the shadows.
One day the benefit of it came to me.
Self knowledge actually makes me more powerful.
It gives me an edge, a very powerful edge,
That of knowing exactly who and what I am.
What lurks unknown to us in the shadows is akin to having thieves in the house.
They are a threat to me more than anything, anyone outside.
Once known and exposed, my dark shadows lose their lethalness to harm me.
When I do not have to hide from myself, I do not have to hide from the world.
And the world has no leverage over me.
Tell me something about me, and I would tell you I already know it.
If I do not already know it, then I would look at it, accept or dismiss it.
It makes for a warrior, a fearless spiritual warrior.
Walk in all truth before God and one need fear no evil or devils for that matter.
The path of truth opens me to other spiritual beliefs also.
The wu wei, non action of Taoism.
After applying so much effort to attaining to union with God, to sainthood,
The easing of my spiritual strivings was an immense relief.
The peace and loving compassion of Buddhism.
The mysticism of early Indian Mystics.
The path of the Law of One, shared by humble messenger Ra.
Gleaning what I could of metaphysics, quantum physics.
They all comprise the world of the Universe.
God of the Universe as I called God on experiencing his energy in everything around me.
And that is my life and my path.
The power of walking in all truth and transparency before God.