Life has ups and down, and we often don't see the down we can be engaged in. Wrongdoings can be harder to see, and doing better harder to do, when we're defending our perceived status of being good. When we’re living in falser ways, we don’t want to hear the truth of our errors or wrongs.
When we have a desire to live and walk in the "way" and "path" of truth, right, morality, love,, "spirituality", etc., that shows that we care for truth. And that is to care for what's right. When we love truth, we want to know the truth of our errors, mistakes, wrongs, evils and darkness, to correct them, to stop them, to heal, purify, sublimate, transmute, change, evolve, better, improve, etc. This is how we can become better, and not let our defense of already being good keep us stuck.
Years ago in my research to understand things like this, I cam across a page titled "What it Really Means to be True to Someone You Love". Here are some poignant sections to elucidate some of what I'm talking about. It talks about an "ego-based rule" for living compared to a "spiritual" one that is synonymous with morality, truth, etc.
An ego-based rule DO NOT mention matters that are avoided and denied. DO NOT bring consciousness to your mate's delusions. DO NOT bring consciousness to the state of the marriage. DO NOT call attention to the folly of trying to make an unloving, unconstructive marriage "work."...
A spirit-based ruleSeek to know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
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Why, in ego-speak, true means UNtrueTo be true to someone, as ego understands it, and as convention requires it, is the opposite of being true to someone, as spirit understands it. Heaven is fine with truth. Spirit loves truth. But conventional society, ruled by ego as it is, is not fine with truth.
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To be UNtrue. To be dishonest.That's right. In ego-speak, to be "true" to your mate or friend is to be true to his or her ego, and untrue to his or her soul -- because everyone knows that the soul of any person is hurt by avoidance, denial, and collusion.
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Whereas...To be spiritually true to them is to be the opposite: to be honest with the person about things that matter, even if they resist being honest about those things; to bring up things they need to hear, even if they don't want to hear them; to be conscious around a person who very much wants unconscious companionship.
Non-examined people focus on themselves and what they want, wish or desire at the expense of others. Looking at the bigger picture and living from foundational principles based in moral truth is not comprehended deeply enough, or at all. Many people don't consider truth important, but many do while they instead focus on making friends, being likable, getting people to like them, and don’t seek to remove the untruth, the wrongs, that are existing in the world and in themselves. (see the link above to understand that more).
I seek to become consciously aware of the wrong in myself. When I encounter wrong in the world around me, I point it out, because I care for truth more than I care if people like me or not.
Bringing to light errors, wrongs, etc. is not comfortable. It is controversial. It usually evokes conflict due to those receiving the message being too attached to false conceptions of what is happening. The world has many dark aspects to it. If we don't shine a light onto the darkness, the darkness will remain. We need to shine lights onto our own darkness as well if we hope to have less darkness in our own lives. Examining the world and ourselves will lead to betterment of the world and ourselves.
It is harder to behave like good people when we are too busy defending our status as good people.
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