The Positive Meaning Of Deception

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave
When first we practise to deceive!"
                        - Walter Scott [1] 

There are two meanings to this verse about deception, one positive and one negative:

1. The Negative Meaning Of Deception:
• When we first start to lie, we have to continue to lie in order to support the first lie. We get tangled in a web of lies and find it hard to keep our story straight.
• For example, if I lie and say that I'm a pilot, then someone asks, "What airline?", I've got to come up with another lie, so I say, "Infinity And Beyond." "Never heard of it." I need another lie, "It's new, it's a local carrier ..." etc. I get tangled in a web of lies as I try to support my first lie. This is a bad thing.
2. The Positive Meaning Of Deception:
• We learn from opposites, one against its opposite:
• We know cold, we we can know hot.
• We know black, so we can know white.
• We know disconnection, so we can know connection.
• We know hate, so we can know love.
• We know deception, so we can know The Truth.
• We're given deception, so we can overcome the state, so we can rise above our ego and attain its opposite - The Truth.
• What a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive means that first we experience deception, then we attain The Truth.
• The Truth brings us to bestowal, where we seek to benefit others instead of ourselves. When we connect in mutual bestowal, we become interconnected and interdependent like a tangled web, like a piece of woven fabric that has interlaced threads, and we reach harmony and balance with each other and with all of Nature.
• Eventually, we come to realize that we were always in bestowal, we just had to realize it.
• There's one thing to note:
• The smaller the deception, the smaller The Truth attained.
• The greater the deception, the greater The Truth attained.
• REMEMBER THIS! This is really important, especially for the future (in about 20 years). No matter what happens, know that I love you.

This doesn't mean that people have free license to do whatever they want, to deceive others intentionally, not at all. In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.

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References:

1. Marmion (poem). www.en.wikipedia.org. Retrieved Oct 29, 2014.

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