Human values: Truth ( Love in speech)
'Speak with Love and it becomes Truth.'
Sathya Sai Baba
(See for post about the first human value Love: https://steemit.com/spirituality/@clara-andriessen/human-values-love and: https://steemit.com/life/@clara-andriessen/human-values-love-looking-back-ecotrain )
Today I will have the same introduction, with a few changes, for people who didn't follow the first post, but will use a different human value. The value of Truth and it's sub values to pick from to explore what Truth means to you and what it can bring to your life.
Truth is a very interesting subject to ponder over as it is often not black and white as are many things in this world. I am excited to explore Truth through its sub values in the coming week and I hope you will journey with me.
Sathya Sai Baba, a Divine incarnation living from 23 November 1926 to 24 April 2011, from the south of India, has extracted five human values from the Veda's ( ancient sacred texts from India). Though there are five, they are all based on Love. They are Love expressed on different levels, which is tickling my curiosity.
1.Love
2. Truth (Love in speech)
3. Right conduct ( Love in action)
4. PEACE (Love in thought)
5. Non-violence (Love in understanding
He created educational programs for both adults and children with them, called EHV. Many people all over the world have studied them and benefitted from them.
As I always like to find my own way with things and believe in checking in with my inner compass, I must admit I have never really studied them even though I consider myself a Sai devotee. They somehow seemed to me like outer values that I would have to make myself adapt to, with will power.
But when I asked Sai Baba inside 'What shall I write on Steemit, what will benefit people?' He answered: Human values.
I was a bit surprised as I didn't have a strong connection with them and I might even have had a little resistance up till then, but maybe the time was ripe now. I felt inspired or at least curious to give them a try. I was joyfully surprised to find that:
Human values are the qualities that are already present within each of us. They come with our human blueprint. The five human values are the essential human traits that need to be remembered and brought in to our daily consciousness so that we can become what we were meant to be: the salt of the earth. Beings that benefit society, rather than harming it. Human values are that which unites us in our apparent diversity as they live in each of us.
While I was reading up on them, I found that each value has sub values to give us more substance to the value Love. To shine light on its many forms of appearance and expression. I also noticed a similarity with the value/needs lists of non-violent communication by Marshall Rosenberg. Non-violent communication is teaching us to become aware of the needs that drive our actions and to own them by becoming aware of them so that in communication we can be more transparant and authentic.
Today I am exploring TRUTH, the second human value based on Love as Love expressed trough speech. I think these sub values of the second value, which you can find below can do the same for us as the needs/values lists of Non violent communication do. We can use this list to remember them and to become aware of which sub values lie closest to our heart at this point and we feel inspired to express Love in speech ( Truth) with throughout the day.
In other words:
What would you like to express?
Truth (Love in speech)
- Consciousness,
- creativity,
- curiosity,
- discrimination,
- equality,
- honesty,
- integrity,
- intuition,
- natural environment,
- optimism,
- quest for knowledge,
- reason,
- self-analysis,
- self-knowledge,
- self-worth,
- sense control,
- spirit of inquiry,
- synthesis,
- truthfulness,
- unity in thought word and deed,
- unity in diversity (21)
So at first sight it seems these sub values of Truth, are qualities of the thought world, but when I thought about it, it became clear to me that, it is these qualities of thought that we would be expressing when we speak Truth.
To become reacquainted with the ones we may have lost touch with, we can dedicate our attention to one of these sub values each day and see what it brings up for us and what it may possibly bring out in us! My experience in life is that things will flow better if we give these things first to ourselves. For example when we choose tolerance, we give ourselves the gift of tolerance first and then when we feel the Love flowing in that sub value we can start giving it to others too. In fact I think that will happen all by itself at that point.
Are you ready to become reacquainted with the five gems inside of you? I invite you to pick one of these sub values today, the one that attracts you most and see what it does for you and the world around you. If you feel inspired to do so you can pick more values for the other days of this week, I will do so too. At the end of this week I will share my experiences with you that I had with this journey with the sub values of Truth. It could get very interesting. It actually already is. I'm journeying with the sub value 'integrity' today. I'll tell you all about it in my next post.
I would be very interested to read about your journey with the sub values of Love in the comments, if you feel like sharing.
Love Clara
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