18/10/2025
Most people say they want the truth - until it threatens their identity, comfort, or illusion of control.
Truth isn’t always gentle; it shatters what’s false. It dissolves the stories we’ve built about who we are, what’s safe, and what love should look like.
Truth asks us to see without defending.
That’s what makes it so uncomfortable - because seeing clearly means losing the protection of denial.
🪞Why Truth Feels Threatening
It exposes our ego’s fabrications.
The ego thrives on stories: “I’m right,” “I’m good,” “They’re wrong.” Truth doesn’t take sides - it dissolves them.
It destabilizes the familiar.
Even painful illusions feel safe because they’re known. Truth introduces the unknown, which the nervous system often interprets as danger.
It demands responsibility.
When we see clearly, we can no longer pretend not to know. That means we must act - or consciously choose not to - and both require courage.
It removes the need for validation.
Living in truth can be lonely because many relationships are built on mutual avoidance of it.
🌹The Paradox
Truth burns - but it also frees.
It strips away illusions so that what’s real can breathe.
When you stop fearing the discomfort, truth becomes love itself - fierce, liberating, alive.
Reflection prompt:
Where do you still soften or shrink the truth to stay accepted or safe?
And what might open if you stopped doing that?
Isaac Newton /
"Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth."
"Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 - 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author, widely recognised as one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists and among the most influential scientists of all time. He was a key figure in the philosophical revolution known as the Enlightenment. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing infinitesimal calculus. In the Principia, Newton formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that formed the dominant scientific viewpoint until it was superseded by the theory of relativity."