Self-Deception: The Cure

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posted by Annie B. Bond Apr 24, 2005 6:10 pm

filed under: Spirituality, Guidance, Inspiration, Self-Help

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Adapted from The Mystic Hours, by Wayne Teasdale (New World Library, 2004).

As Ben Franklin said, “It is the easiest thing in the world for a person to deceive himself.” Self-deception is a human talent we have all practiced at one time or another–denial about our faults, our slow pace in personal growth, the danger of large and small addictions, how well we treat others. We deceive ourselves when we ruthlessly seek our wants, or use other people to obtain them. Why do we do it? And what is the cure? Find out here:

We lie to ourselves to shield our conscience from the truth. When we deceive ourselves, we are hurting ourselves the most. Such deception leads to the creation of a false self that protects us from confronting the truth.

The cure is pure honesty and humility. True humility never tolerates self-deception.

Interestingly enough, when we grow strong enough to confront our murkiest, scariest truths, we also liberate ourselves. In the glow of the resulting feelings of freedom and empowerment, it becomes easier to make the healthy changes we need to make.

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Diversity of Metamorphosi says
Jun 8, 2009 10:36 PM

The trouble with the next exit is we don't always have time to stop, caught in the motion of the global deception, to the detriment and contagion of the self deception. Truth is a network, with roots we share, in the same way it shares with everything.

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Geeta Bhagia says
Oct 25, 2008 2:13 PM

This is sooo true ...this is exactly what I have been working on. Im currently going through a very bad phase of my life( have been for the last year- healthwise, relationshipwise, jobwise(had to leave my job as Im on homeopathic treatment, financially as well). This kind of attitude is helping me heal from within. Sorry for the rant !!!

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Srishti Kapoor says
May 28, 2008 2:15 PM

I love this extract!!!!
So true!!!!!!

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