.....One of truths attributes is its continual push for recognition, understanding and acceptance. Truths which are ignored remain truths. You are the lesser for not acknowledging them. Truth is empowering and carries moral authority. Truth is pliable in that it is not ridged and can be seemingly "bent" by reason of perspective.
.....Truths become self-evident over time. Sadly this "truth" is not realized in the same ways and at the same time by all peoples. Each has their own capacity for the absorption of truths; their own pace at which they can tolerate the change of perspective that a new understanding demands. Agility is not only a physical attribute, but a mental one as well.
.....A change of perspective will not tolerate passivity. Effort is required when ones mind changes; when ones outlook, preconceived notions and trivial habits of thought are challenged by something wider and deeper. Looking out into the bright daylight can be a bit overwhelming when one has been in a dark room sleeping.
.....I want you to wake up.
"The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. ...But their (the American peoples) virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lomax, 1799. ME 10:123
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