Truth to Poawer

I will speak the truth, but I will at all times avoid speaking unpleasant or harmful truths. I will offer no criticism that is not motivated by kindness.
Metaphysical Meditations
Paramahansa Yogananda
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When I was a young man I stood on the ramparts of social change and shouted out truth to power everywhere I could. This was what I believed to be my identity… my persona. History has proven that I might have been on the right side of change at times and completely misguided at others. My moral compass centered on what change I wanted to force on others (by hook or crook and the devil be damned in the details). I suppose that this rebellious attitude is the privilege of youth. This adage of another time applies: Any man that is not a socialist in his youth has no heart. Any man that is still a socialist after thirty has no brain.
   I still aspire to most of the ideals I held dear in my youth but with a more reserved perspective. This perspective came from the realization that there are no enemies as dangerous to my soul as the enemies within my heart. This realization’s heartbeat is; that it is better to bring harmony where there is discord… Love where there is hatred… faith where there is doubt…. hope where there is despair… light where there are shadows… joy where there is sorrow… to understand than to be understood… to love than to be loved… to forgive myself by forgiving others… this is where resonance with the Heart of Compassion resounds, like Louis Armstrong’s coronet, an instrument as clear and sharp as the syncopation of the universes jazz.
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