Without self betrayal, we don’t know how to honor our truth. We go in and out of self betrayal and self truth all day every day. Sometimes we venture in to self betrayal for a deep and long time, yet when we venture out of it we have a far deeper and richer experience of our truth. I like to think from my experience: before I explored self betrayal in an obvious way I just ‘knew’ things/life, now coming out; I ‘know that I know’. It is a much deeper knowing now. A much deeper observation and awareness that sits beyond and deeper than the experience of good or bad, and right or wrong. Self betrayal and self honor sits us right in the messy middle. The center. And as humans I feel it is not possible to stay in either or. We need both to experience ourselves.
© Emma Sumner