There Is No Heroism in Lies

Secrets.

Truths.

When secrets reign supreme, deceits run rampant.

When deceits run rampant, lies become truths: truths of self-interest; truths of self-preservation; truths of self-conceit.

When lies become truths (truths of self-interest, truths of self-preservation, truths of self-conceit), egoism masquerades as heroism... for such truths are in fact: perversions, distortions.

There is no heroism in lies, deceits, secrets... when lies, deceits, secrets... rip asunder the truest truths.

The Truest Truths

Heart. Soul. Mind. Body.

The body hosts wealth more precious than all the riches and baubles and trinkets coveted and amassed by man, for it hosts the heart, the soul, the mind. This is a truest truth.

Even so, the body is the mind, the soul, the heart.

Thus, to plunder the body is to plunder the mind, the soul, the heart; for a body ravaged, is a mind ravaged, a soul ravaged, a heart ravaged. This, too, is a truest truth.

Another truest truth? When bodies break... all is lost. Heart. Soul. Mind. Body. One and all.

Yet... reckless and unbridled distortions of truth fuel the deception that... excepting death... that which is exacted upon bodies, leaves unsacathed, unplundered, unravaged... hearts, souls, minds.

But this is a lie.

For the body, the mind, the soul, the heart... are one. Each cannot exist without the other. And each suffers the agonies of all. This is a truest truth.

The Iniquity of Egoism

Secrets.

Lies.

At the heart of secrets... lies... is egoism. Nothing less than the the valuation of oneself higher than all others. Especially those whose hearts, souls, minds reside within bodies of no ones, from nowhere, worth nothing.

But these valuations are conceits.

For the fair and just valuations of our selves and each other derive from a power greater than ourselves that positions no one of us higher than any of us.

Thus, to exact upon another body, another mind, another soul, another heart... that which one would never exact upon oneself... is to defend the virtue of egoism.

To defend the virtue of egoism is the depraved credo of the selfish. The plunderer. The ravager. The breaker of hearts, souls, minds, bodies.

While the egoist appropriates the mask of heroism to justify truths of self-interest, truths of self-preservation, truths of self-conceit to scaffold lies, deceits, secrets... the hero upholds the truest truths to uplift every body, every mind, every soul, every heart... to greatness and grace.

The Truth Is the Truth

The depth and breadth and power of limitless self-interest, self-preservation, self-conceit... may disguise secrets, deceits, lies... but such facades do not make such perversions and distortions... true.

In the end... the truth is the truth... and to speak the truth... is to be heroic.

For secrets, deceits, lies are poisons... for which the only cure... is honesty.

Lest you relish the exquisite toxification of your heart, your soul, your mind, your body... speak the truth... and set your body, your mind, your soul, your heart... free.

More

Who speaks for the voiceless?

Who protects the helpless?

Who frees the imprisoned?

If not you and me... then who?

Indeed:

When truths are spoken... all of us hear.

When truths are illuminated... all of us see.

When truths are set free... all of us are set free.

If not you and me... to speak truths, to illuminate truths, to set truths free... then who?

Surely no secret is worth... no lie is worth... no self-interest, no self-preservation, no self-conceit is ever worth... the price that we pay...

...when the screams of the voiceless are answered with silence,

...when the pleas of the helpless are answered with silence,

...when the prayers of the imprisoned are answered with silence.

For the voiceless, the helpless, the imprisoned are me... and the voiceless, the helpless, the imprisoned are you... and it's up to all of us to respond to the screams of the voiceless, the pleas of the helpless, and the prayers of imprisoned... with answers.

- M.