Truth and Love

"So much of what we do each day is a diversion from what our lives are really about.  A traumatic event is like a knife slicing through our diversionary tactics and exposing the vein of truth; the truth of what we really want, of how we really feel, of the wrongs we have visited upon each other, of the love we crave from each other.  In our habitual lives, we exercise the foolish luxuries of complaining, avoiding and blaming.   We gossip about the annoying behaviors of friends or colleagues, shutting them out of our hearts, turning our backs on their complicated beauty in favor of their obvious flaws.  It seems easier to do this than to take responsibility when it is ours to take, or to speak directly to others when it is theirs.   All the while, the truth waits patiently."   Elizabeth Lesser