We must face the painful truth…

About our experiences and how they’ve shaped the lies we’ve constructed in our heads

About our world, the people around us and how we live

About our mundane lives that lack meaning

About our work that feels like endless suffering by making us sick

About our loveless lives surrounded by people that make us feel empty

About our unwillingness to be alone in silence

About our neurotic behaviors that keep us in an endless cycle of distraction and asleep

About the nameless dread we feel inside once the noise finally clears

About our willingness to do more and inability to doing less

About our underlying motivations and where they come from

About our endless pursuit of happiness that doesn’t ever come

About our inability to live in the present, while constantly reliving the past

About those painful experiences in the past that we unknowingly keep buried

About the horrible things we do to our bodies and the planet

About the long-term effects it has on ourselves and the world

Until we face these painful truths, we will not live the lives we deserve

 And the cost of an unexamined life is simply too high