A Call to Truth

When self is sacrificed for a higher good

Is when you’re actually free

When you have something or someone, you’d risk it all for

Prepared to die for

Is when you’re free

When you no longer fear death

When you no longer just live for self

When the ego has been reigned it

And kept in check

Is when you are free

Living for self and selfish desires

Imprisons the soul

And the ego becomes your tyrannical master

You live to please the world and others

Want to be like others

It is paradoxical but true

It is in giving that we receive

It is in losing ourselves that we find ourselves

It is by becoming lost that we are found

It is in falling that we rise

And in failures that we find success

Today’s world of materialism

And the pursuit of selfish goals and ambitions

Have hardened our hearts and destroyed our souls

The character becomes blunted

Un-nurtured, it dies

Man is nothing without character

But an empty hollow shell

Our world of remote-control gadgets

Fast cars

Instant coffee

Speed dating and high-speed trains

Have deluded us into thinking that short cuts

And searching for the easiest or quickest route

Is the best way

We trade our integrity and health for wealth and comfort

And the pursuits of vacuous pleasures

But there’s no substitute for character

No price too high for freedom

And nothing nobler than truth

There’s no elevator to success

We have to take the stairs

The spiritual laws of nature

They don’t ever change

Written by: Carla L. Ibanzo

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