Deception

When we deceive another, all we are doing is imposing our personal point of view on them. No one can sway all deceit. By those things we choose to conceal, we reveal ourselves, that very soft underbelly we are most terrified of, our inner demon. The individual is the biggest trickster they will ever face, and the reason for that is they have bought into an idea of who they are as an individual.

If you don’t worry about lies, you can see that their lies reveal their truths, and you can know what they would really do, because people always lie about their truths. If it’s not their truth, they don’t even think to make up a lie about it.

When you see no truth you see no lies, you just see things. When you aren’t careful, you have no cares, because you aren’t creating them. But when, in the name of truth, you live your life carefully, well… How is hell treating you?

We need to realize that we cannot make a point, that all of our efforts are deceit, all of our ideals are vanity, and keep living anyway. We need that story.

“A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.” Marina Tsvetaeva

“Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn’t -it’s human.” Desiderius Erasmus