Dear Joshua,
I would like to understand the higher perspective to lying. When one typically lies, you are attempting to spare someone you care about from hearing something that you believe they will react to in a negative way. So obviously there is fear and doubt involved here and therefore, not in alignment with your higher self. Would it be more in alignment with your higher self to always tell the truth and be confident that if someone else has issues with the truth, that is their issue and they now have an opportunity to deal with whatever limiting belief they have around that issue?
Appreciate your perspective on this.
Thanks!
Steve
Dear Steve,
The truth is love and lies are told out of a stance of fear. Yes, you are right. Telling the truth is always in alignment with your higher self. From the higher perspective, no wrong can come from telling the truth. The truth will lead to greater awareness of self. This however, is only true for you.
You cannot create in another's reality, yet you can influence it. When you tell the truth, you are influencing another to a certain degree depending with their own alignment with their inner self. If they are fully aligned, what you say, whether it's a lie or the truth, will not affect them. If they are not aligned, then what you say will certainly influence them. So, sometimes people either tell the truth or the lie to get what they want. The truth itself is often subjective from your perspective. Influence is usually the goal of anything said whether it is true or not.
What is the truth for you? This is the only question you need to ask yourself. If someone tells you the truth, how are you affected? If someone tells you a lie, how do you react? The telling of the truth or withholding the truth is always done from the perspective of the one doing the truth telling or lying. What is it they want? They want some other condition to emerge as a result of their comment. If it is a lie, then the lie will serve them. If it is the truth, then the truth is only told to serve some end they believe is in their best interest.
When you tell the truth, why are you doing so? What do you want to accomplish? What is the purpose of the statement? It is to alter some condition you feel is wrong.
So when someone tells you the truth, you can take it or leave it. You do not have to be affected by it. They told you this thing so that you might react in a way that will change the conditions in their world. They are hoping the truth will cause an effect that will benefit them. The same is true of a lie. Therefore, the truth is quite similar to the lie. It does not matter. It's only the reaction that matters. How you react to the truth is how you will create your future. If you can be harmed by the truth, then you are the one who is living a lie. You're living in fear.
If someone came to you and told you some truth about yourself and you were offended, hurt, embarrassed, or reacted negatively in any way, then you are not living your truth. You are not being who you really are. However, when you are being the higher version of yourself, you cannot be hurt by the truth or by a lie. It just won't matter. That's because you'll be living and operating out of a stance of unconditional love. You will see everything from the higher perspective.
In the nonphysical it is not possible to lie. It is also not possible to tell the truth. In order to tell the truth, there must be something to withhold, otherwise it would be evident. In the nonphysical, everything is expressed openly with love and nothing is withheld. In the nonphysical, their is no reason to withhold anything since all operate from the higher perspective out of love. You have not reached that level yet. There are things you aren't ready to know. This is why lying can be done out of love and the truth can be told out of fear. You know what is appropriate given your current level of consciousness. You understand when people need to hear the truth for their benefit and not yours. You know when it's appropriate to withhold the truth from the ones you love.
This is a very important question and our answer has broken new ground in our discussion. Please ask more questions around this subject so that we may further clarify our statement.
Love,
Joshua
