Teacher and writer Tamarack Song calls on all of us to practice “truth-speaking,” which, in his words, means “to state clearly and simply what one thinks and feels. There is no judgment or expectation, no disguise of humor or force of anger. The manner of speech is sacred, because it wells up from the soul of our being rather than from our self-absorbed ego.” When we truthspeak, we let go of our fears about how the other might interpret or react to our words. We simply speak our thoughts and feelings with utter honesty, absent any filtering, and, in so doing, experience genuine freedom. Note: Just the fact that you might pass a day without saying anything to another that would be judged as an outright lie does not mean that you have practiced truthspeaking, because truthspeaking, at its core, is about not betraying—not lying to—ourselves.
