Can You Handle The Truth?

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I do not memorize lines from movies, but one line that is seared into my brain is Jack Nicholson’s explosion of words to Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!” It has been my experience that many of us cannot handle the truth. We would prefer to white knuckle it, expecting the worst and hoping for the best, expecting the best and planning for the worst or somewhere in between. Many times all the anxiety, worry, downward spirals this type of thinking can inspire could have been totally avoided if we had asked for, looked for, listened for the truth. Of course, carefully considering the source we are requesting this truth from, including ourselves ….. 

Do you request the truth
Of yourself and others?
Do you ask the hard questions
Of self and another?

Although white knuckling
Can feel ok
It really only leads
To a truth delay

Truth enables us
To be
And to react
Authentically!!