Integrity has been on my mind lately, in trying to live by the question 'am I willing to always tell the truth?'. In my case, am I being deeply truthful with myself?
I heard this recently:
"The most exciting relationships are where the contract is to share truth. Many relationships don't have that kind of a contract. They have a contract of you won't threaten my ego and I won't threaten yours. We'll both feel comfortable.
But if the relationship is designed where you agree, when I say to you, will you help me awaken by sharing your truth with me? It may be difficult for me to hear it, but that's the work I will do with myself.
And then you say to me, would you help me awaken through sharing your truth with me?
Sometimes it'll be hard for me, but I'll work on myself with it. That relationship gets very exciting."
YES. Celebrating the idiosyncrasy of the personal voice and subsequent artistic delivery is of the absolute highest order. Neil Young is my number one absolute favorite rock musician specifically because of it. I mean, he did just about every song of his in the early days (and even now) in A minor, but the voice is so utterly unique and personal that it resonates in the souls of the broader masses way beyond the simplicity of song structure. We can all be touched to our core and positively moved when our channels are open to the truth of human expression and not shut off by the algorithms of capitalism. I'm seeing his show in May in New York and even though it is with hard rocking Crazy Horse, I plan on crying the ENTIRE time. That's what happened when I last saw him as he stabbed me with his piercing Art. Keep digging in the crates, David! And share all the gems you find.
Integrity has been on my mind lately, in trying to live by the question 'am I willing to always tell the truth?'. In my case, am I being deeply truthful with myself?
I heard this recently:
"The most exciting relationships are where the contract is to share truth. Many relationships don't have that kind of a contract. They have a contract of you won't threaten my ego and I won't threaten yours. We'll both feel comfortable.
But if the relationship is designed where you agree, when I say to you, will you help me awaken by sharing your truth with me? It may be difficult for me to hear it, but that's the work I will do with myself.
And then you say to me, would you help me awaken through sharing your truth with me?
Sometimes it'll be hard for me, but I'll work on myself with it. That relationship gets very exciting."
(Ram Dass)
YES. Celebrating the idiosyncrasy of the personal voice and subsequent artistic delivery is of the absolute highest order. Neil Young is my number one absolute favorite rock musician specifically because of it. I mean, he did just about every song of his in the early days (and even now) in A minor, but the voice is so utterly unique and personal that it resonates in the souls of the broader masses way beyond the simplicity of song structure. We can all be touched to our core and positively moved when our channels are open to the truth of human expression and not shut off by the algorithms of capitalism. I'm seeing his show in May in New York and even though it is with hard rocking Crazy Horse, I plan on crying the ENTIRE time. That's what happened when I last saw him as he stabbed me with his piercing Art. Keep digging in the crates, David! And share all the gems you find.