YOUR Inner Truth.

It’s one thing to understand a concept. It’s another thing to own the concept as your own personal truth.

People who deny a concept right out of the gate, are people who feel as if that concept is going to threaten something they hold dear. 

Don’t take things as true just because “someone” said it. 

Saying a concept isn’t true just because it isn’t true for you – without you even trying to “put it on for size” – makes you stuck and unaware. 

Let me hit you with the reality of life:
There are going to be people who see things you don’t see.
There are people who are smarter.
There are people who are more excellent in a field.
There are people who have more knowledge.
There are people who see more than you do, in the universe in general.

To look at these people and to not respect what they’re saying (not accept, but respect) enough to say “how might this be true” and avoid doing your own research on the concept/ topic… makes you extremely unaware. 

With that being said, you should never accept something as being “right” or true, simply because it’s “supposed” to be right/ true. You need to check in with yourself and see if it resonates with you or not. 

This is what it means to have an open mind. It is having a mind that is open to changing your view of the “truth”. Sit down with yourself long enough to be able to “try on” a concept and see how it fits for you. 

It doesn’t work to hope that one day you will succumb to truths that are presented by people who are more knowledgeable than you. People who simply expect you to accept some concept – regardless of how it lands for you – is very dangerous. 

Own your free will. You have an intrinsic capacity to decide what’s really true for you.

You’re not meant to succumb to concepts or “truths” – you’re meant to try them on and see how well they fit for you. A truly wise person won’t accept a new concept unless they can accept that concept as part of their truth. 

Applying this will mean you are no longer susceptible to ignorance on one hand; on the other hand, no longer vulnerable to people who will push you to accept whatever they want you to accept, so they can manipulate you in any way they want. 

I don’t want you to say “But Crystal says….”
That isn’t you owning or presenting your truth. It’s you presenting my truth.

This is for any concept/ idea presented to you – regardless of how valid the source appears to be. If it doesn’t resonate with your own personal truth, then it doesn’t matter:
“But Jesus says….”
“But Snoop Dogg says….”
“But Donald Trump says….” 

Try to see where the concept currently fits for you and how you could make it fit as part of your truth. But in the case that it doesn’t resonate with you – dissolve it. 

You shouldn’t care if you understand a concept. You should care if you understand why it’s true, for you.