We can have a better world instead of the suffering that is manifesting. Facing the negatives in the world enables us to understand how and why we are co-creating this condition. Some of the hardest darkness to face is within ourselves. It is required to know thyself, to gain self-knowledge, self-awakening, self-realization, self-awareness, self-dominion and self-control to stop doing what we shouldn’t be doing.
This requires looking back at ourselves in self-respect, self-reflection and self-analysis. We must face ourselves in the mirror in honesty and self-respect without fear of looking at the beauty and the horror, the light and the dark, the good and the bad within us and in the world around us. Looking at the shadow, demon, dark, negative side of ourselves and the world can be hard to confront. Truth can be difficult to hear or accept. Truth can be uncomfortable and undesirable to know.
We must overcome to propensity to ignore, deny, reject or refuse the knowledge of the negative around and within us. The hurt, discomfort and fear of facing the darkness can act as a barrier that prevents us from healing and only prolongs the suffering. Recognizing things as they are, is the way forward. To accept the current truth of the matter, but not accept that it should stay that way. Awareness of the darkness or chaos catalyzes the development of care, and the subsequent courage and will to choose to change ourselves away from the things we recognize are against our betterment.
This is alchemical transformation or transmutation. Taking the negative shadow and transmuting or purifying it as a phoenix is burned and is reborn from its ashes anew. So shall we be reconstituted in a new form -- resurrected from the “death” of a lower consciousness condition into a new life, an afterlife compared to the former life. Reborn anew without the aspects of our previous lower, unrealer and falser state of being, to have them removed, to be changed, healed, bettered and improved.
Avoidance of the knowing about the negative within or in the world is like wearing rosy-colored glasses. This is not the solution to our woes. This will not create a better condition for ourselves or others. Rosy-colored glasses are an illusory veil cast over reality that prevents us from seeing things as they are, from seeing the truth. Rosy-colored glasses are a glossy veneer of seeing everything as positive, wonderful, great and perfect, since that is what is being focused on. Only the pleasant side is looked at. Seeing things as they are, is unpleasant.
Rosy-colored glasses prevent an accurate perception of the world and ourselves. They prevent us from seeing the things that are not helping us, that are keeping us in chains of self-inflicted suffering in the aggregate. This avoidance and denial of reality and truth is based in fear. Rosy-colored glasses are a symptom of a consciousness that has not developed the recognition of the importance of truth to make our lives better.
The focus on feeling-good leads us to welcome ignorance and denial. Ignorance is bliss, and knowledge is suffering. Ignorance has you ignore the knowledge of reality that can bring discomfort and truth that hurts. Knowledge of the dark parts of reality brings the suffering of knowing about it and bearing the weight of that awareness to work at changing it. Rosy-colored glasses, positivity masks and focusing on feeling-good by avoiding the negative and not face the truth, prevents us from growing and changing towards making things better and how we want things to be.
We want to believe we are good. We lie and tell ourselves that what we are doing is fine in order to make ourselves feel-good about our choices and behaviors. We dismiss, deflect, diminish and deny truths that we don’t want to face, that make us feel uncomfortable, or that make us feel bad about what we’re doing. It’s a lot easier to ignore the hard truths that to face them, let alone accept them and align ourselves with a truer, realer and higher potential way of being.
It’s a lot easier to just keep doing what we’re already doing, to live in the comfort of our ignorance, falsity and lies. It takes time, energy, and effort to do the work to change, grow, improve, evolve, heal and better ourselves and change the resulting condition of the world. We have to point the finger at ourselves and see how we are collectively allowing things to exist as they are due to our failure to evolve consciousness and truly know right from wrong. The self-deceptions to maintain our illusory self-views and worldviews must end. Seeking and understanding greater degrees of quality, substantive and valuable truths is the journey and path we must all take.