Every young man should learn to love, respect and embody truth. This love precedes love for family, country, etc., for fidelity to truth establishes the foundation upon which love for all other externalities is built.
The fact that this is not taught to young men is the great jeremiad of our present state. Our educational system focuses instead on pasting on facts and figures, developing problem-solving abilities and shaping them to be productive members of the workforce. It does a fine job at that, but sadly, the core skill essential to true manhood – love for the truth – is left to chance.
Gregory Hake 
Well, something always wins a man’s allegiance, as one would simply cannot exist without some central focus of consciousness . If it’s not Truth, it will be something else without question. How much heartache could be avoided across the world if Truth were to be instructed from the days of our youth?
As in all true knowing, it is something to be awakened given that it is already there in essence. To encourage a deep love for Truth is the most sacred of all gifts to bestow for it sets man in alignment with his Creator.
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Until our society learns to love the truth more than they love achieving whatever successes (or comforts) they yearn for, we will have constant betrayal, heartache, and loss. Living for anything else than your purpose is an indignity, and you can’t find out what your purpose is until you begin loving the truth.
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How thankful I am, that chance would have me seeking such Truth.
That being the case, i’m brought to think, how many carefully crafted factors had to come into alignment, that such chance could manifest for me?
There are a tonne of factors that could have derailed this opportunity.
And such being the case, what more can I do to ensure that against all odds, my purpose be brought to fulfillment?
For starters, a principle known by many, that can work in all our favours, is found in teaching. Ive personally found that when I seek to teach, inspire or encourage others, in Truth, the more subtle principles underlying what is being taught become available for me to learn also, at greater depth.
The same would be true of embodying truth, for many of us were not raised in a pristine surround of people in accord in matters relating to the truth,
That said, the starting point in truth, would be to assume the responsibility of “Showing them the way” through our living, in accordance to the highest and finest of which we are currently aware. Opening the way for both us and them, that together we can set things straight!
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Your post puts first things first for every man and women young or older. Thanks for the clear articulation of what is required of each of us.
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Society as a whole, is on a treadmill constantly trying to qualify and quantify life. To teach a love for the truth above all, would not to fit in that model of analytics, metrics, percentages and scores. Until that changes, we must be living examples to our children of our own love for righteousness above all else.
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So true. Love for truth can be encouraged and cultivated very deliberately, and this is the passion that will carry anyone through when the pressures that could otherwise produce failure come inevitably to bear. Probably we don’t tend to notice how deliberately and diabolically we can encourage and cultivate passions that undo and destroy.
Ultimately the world depends upon those for whom truth is unquestionably sacred. Truth itself sanctifies.
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Thinking of the few that I’ve known, that I’d say, their primary fidelity is to the truth there are commonalities.. Others may not recognize why they’re so absolutely dependable but they know they are. Their the ones that no emotional strain or physical limitation over top their dependability to do the right thing. Another commonality is their popularity may seem capricious; as they bring a consistent high pressure system. They have no sell out price to anything that would require their allegiance to the truth become secondary. In short all parents who truly love their children would pray that they meet such a person, if not in themselves then sadly to chance.
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