Good and Evil

"People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies." - Miguel Angel Ruiz


Often I have wondered how negativity enters the soul. That, and why do these energies exist in the first place? Strange things to wonder but I do, and….if I am completely honest …I suspect it is because I myself am also a little bit strange. No really, it's true.
Most people are content to simply live their lives and perhaps stumble upon a few of life's answers. But me? Silly girl…I need to understand the hot burning truth at the center of all things, no matter how hidden, no matter how unsightly. And it has taken me many years to fully comprehend just how few people in this world actually search - sincerely and passionately search for those truths. And I am, sadly, one of them. A person I know has been lying to me. Quite a few blatant one's at that. But that's not the point. The point is we both know they are lying. So, where does that need come from? I mean, really….What could possibly be accomplished by lying? Shame minimized? A clever insult? Feelings of power?
I suppose all of those things may be in play but, really….at the end of the day…it simply means that this person has become the kind of a person that would do such a thing. The lying is a by-product. The lying reveals a journey best not taken. And that is precisely the journey those first dark filaments take as they coil themselves deeply within the heart. It's an old story, isn't it?
But, you know, I also suspect that these dark moments….these mistruths…serve a very important spiritual purpose. In a way, it's like a cleansing. Perhaps there has to be evil so that good can prove it's purity above it. I have spent much of my life pondering these kinds of questions. Yip, I'm strange. No hope for me. I got it bad.