Truth

I had the privilege last week of presenting a short video production I had created on Truth to a Gathering of about 100 Fellows in Applied Functional Science that had gathered from around the world. The Gathering was sponsored by the Gray Institute for Functional Transformation and was attended by professionals committed to seeking truths about human movement and function.

Truth is a thing of mystery. The truth for each of us is a product of our individual values, experience, and understanding. Concurrently there are larger truths that unite us. Those truths that order the universe and that lay at the core of our three dimensional being of body, mind, and spirit - truths that transcend the ordinary but are evidenced in the ordinary.

Such truth transcends personal experience and transforms reality.

The presentation was mixed with motivating thoughts, sometimes disturbing realities, and of course humor. It began with a quotation by Calvin & Hobbes,“It's not denial, I'm just selective about the reality I accept” and ended with a quotation by William Sloane Coffin, “The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.” In between was a collection of amazing insights by writers, scientists, musicians, politicians, theologians, humorists, and others.

Truth too often receives little more than lip-service. Truth is played fast and loose in relationships, business, religion, and politics. The truth of the matter is that truth matters! Its frequent absence is painfully apparent in every dimension of life.

In the professions of health and fitness one is privileged to touch lives - bodies, minds, and spirits. In such a sacred relationship there is room for nothing but truth! Practice demands truth and truth takes practice. Truth with others begins in truth with ourselves.

In the words of Roman Caesar Marcus Aurelius, "If it is not right do not do it, if it is not true do not say it." After 2000 years, these are still good words to live by and by which to conduct business....

Bob

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