Speak Our Own Truth...
I read this quote over the weekend by Winston Churchill who said “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
I have lived my life with the orientation of being a truth seeker...
I imagined that this was the orientation of everyone.
I thought it was why we were here....
To seek our own truth, to speak our own truth and to live it...
I learnt that the words of Winston Churchill are more accurate...
But I am still of the mind that if we all did seek our own truth, that we could heal the world...
By this I mean our soul truth, not our mind truth... I am aware that so much of the planet's orientation is coming from beliefs of the mind, not the soul.
Which is why trying to change the world of mind, with mind is an impossible feat!
If instead we listen to our inner voice, and own our part in every single interaction and in every moment 
of our life; we might decide to not go ahead with a project or a relationship or a course of action, or to go ahead...
But if it were from a place of truth then the vibration would ultimately be healing, even if the person were disappointed that we didn't want to stay in the job, the project, the relationship... Or did want to do something that didn't suit them.
So much of living is built on 'appearances' and 'beliefs' and 'expected ways of being', that fit society rather than through listening to the hearts and souls of those who live within its rules...
As the Dalai Lama affirms... 'True change is within; leave the outside as it is.'
If we listen to our inner voice, and every moment acknowledge what is occurring within us, then we can be mindful in every word we utter and know that we have spoken the truth, even if it is not what another wants to hear...
Anadi and I practice this in our relationship... I have witnessed how much separation occurs in intimacy when things are not said for fear of 'rocking the boat', and yet what occurs instead is a very leaky boat indeed...
There is much being expressed about the sadness, and evil, and distress in the world; and there is attention being drawn to the fact it is up to us to make the changes...
This is true...
Inner change is challenging.
It is a moment by moment commitment, and when we do make this commitment then the actions we know we must take, come from this place...
The inner changes start to show in how our inner landscape influences our actions and the people around us...
One of the reasons I wrote 'Girlfriend for a year', was to demonstrate the challenge of truth, but also give guidance as to how to stay with it... How far we as beings have come to rely on 'not saying' rather than saying and exploring, listening and growing...
I wrote it to demonstrate that there is always growth wanting to emerge though conflict, and this is true individually and as nations...
Anadi and I have discovered through living it, that the space between us is safer when everything is said, that when when it is withheld... Because this way, there are no shocks...
Yesterday Anadi and I were both working away in our new 'front room', when an old and very special friend of Anadi's, Fiona Shakeela Burns, suddenly called us on Skype!
It was so very lovely to 'meet her'... Anadi has often spoken to me of her, and she was as warm and open hearted as he had described....
She called because she is reading 'Girlfriend for a year', which she is loving; she said that she doesn't it want to end! She said it is inspirational and gives her hope... Such lovely words for me to hear, thank you Shakeela!
And the wonderful thing is that she called us exactly three years to the day from when Anadi and I met!
The day I went to North London to be interviewed for his SoundsOrange website and the rest is now a story...
That I have written in a book :)
