The Honor of Truth & Place
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Beauty & Integrity
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In our learning to be together
grows a relationship of acceptance.
Accepting you into the sacred space
that I create for us both.

In being together in sanctuary
we allow each to learn and grow.
Through trusting in us
we begin to bring forth the best we are.
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In our union we find a vision
of what we can create together.
In our path of connection
we embrace each other and all of life.
Beauty

Beauty is intransigent.
Yet it is ephemeral.
Always there but barely here.
If it is out there, what is out there?

The mind lives in a dark box.
It creates what it sees and experiences.
To one mind, one thing is beautiful.
To another, it is ugly.

Yet beauty persists in that dark box.
The sense of beauty exists long before
the perception of beauty.
It’s permanence is our permanence.

To know before perception.
To feel before inference.
To be before there is being.
This is the intransigence of Beauty.
When we believe there is no beauty inside us, we search for it out there. Yet it is not out there. If we all, as a human species, never existed, there would be no beauty. The universe simply is. The beauty of it is our consciousness and its view of what is “out there”.
Does a painting have beauty while sitting in a darkened gallery? The moment the beauty exists is when we lay eyes on it. We create beauty because we carry it inside us and can project that beauty out into the world and onto objects. 
So where does beauty exist when we close our eyes and all our other senses? The same place that our inner pure Essence exists. Beauty is there before sensing, before cognition. It is us. Beauty is one of the elements of our soul. Love and beauty are part of who we are. They exist, even if nothing else does. 
As long as there is consciousness there is beauty. We see beauty in the world when we bring beauty to the world. If you wish the world to be ugly and you chose to deny your own inner beauty, you can make your vision of the world a very dark place. 
Seeing the truth of who you are defines the place where you exist. One sees a beautiful sunset, the other sees an impending storm. The value of Place is determined by you. Home is beautiful if you want it to be, or hell if you imagine it to be.
Integrity

A building stands strong
from a solid foundation
from a knowledgable plan
from the intention of execution.

On truth we stand strong.
Coherence of value leads direction.
Beauty of being supports all.
Value of Essence is the foundation.

The structure of truth is integrity.
The structure of sanctuary is compassion.
The structure of presence is honor.
The structure of leadership is obligation.

Being an unimpaired whole
consistent in our strength.
Finding a compass is good,
finding true north, even better.
Integrity implies strength of structure. All existence has structure. What is the basis of your physical, mental, and emotional structure? Of what is your Essence composed?
Our foundation is in our Essence, the truth of who we are and living that truth every day in every way. The structure of our truth is our integrity. When we know ourselves, know our true north, and know what is of value in existence, then our intention is clear. Our foundation is strong and our plan true. 
The consistency of our words and actions builds on the strength of our truth. If truth changes according to circumstances, it has no integrity. 
We all follow those that seem to have the true compass. We hope that they will have integrity because we believe it is weak in ourselves. Yet each of us has a different expression of integrity, though all are based on a common truth. 
First we must honor ourselves and accept, yes accept, the total beauty of our own inner goodness and unrealized strength. Then standing on that truth, no matter what comes, day in and day out, brings the integrity we so desperately seek. 
Our Place in the world is based on the integrity of our choices and expressions, no matter where we may physically be calling home in this eternal moment.