i took a step back today, stepped outside of myself and reflected. "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to decieve" (Sighs, how i do love shakespeare,, ah but I digress)

thats a powerful statement that encomapsses our society today. we are all each and every one of us guilty of deception. it takes many forms, self-decpetion and deception to those around us. im not talking about lying to our family and friends. this goes way further. out of fear we are deceptive to ourselves and each other about ourselves. let me explain. each and every one of us hides ourselves. some call it masks, some call it social veneers, and yet we all do it. we all hide ourselved form each other and many times even from ourelves. we wear our masks and hide our true nature.

oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practce to deceive.

how many of us are real? to others? to ourselves? so many times we hide. oftentimes we have grown up in circumstances that causes us to believe lies about ourselves, or causes us to make vows in order to protect ourselves, all tangled webs they are and as we continue to persist in these webs they become more and more entanlged. along the way we decieve ourselves and we decieve others. some of it is concious much of it is unconcious patterns we get caught in.

and yet the result is nothing but less than beneficial

oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to decieve

and yet our hearts, our minds, our souls and our spirits cry out for something more!!! but in order to safeguard our heart, our tender tender hearts, we continue to decieve, ourselves and those around us about who we are down inside. so many names it goes by: lies, masks, webs, social veneers....and yet

what if it COULD be different? we all long for it. just check tonights tv guide and count the reality shows. we long for truth, we long for reality and yet no one is willing ot go there although it burns in our hearts

so what is the key? AUTHENTICITY

the longing that we have inside of us for connetion, for realtiy for tangible relationships that mean something could be brought to bear if we could be authentic about who we are. if we could be real aobut who we are. if we could be honest and love who we are. but we choose deciet for fear of judgmenet. we all long for the same thing and in our attempts to `be`that thing that would make us feel worthy of being loved, we lose ourselves in our deciet

oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to decieve

lest we forget, it behooves us well, to be mindul of this please
authenticity is the key