Submission

Submission to truth is harder for people than any other submission, and until you will submit to truth, you cannot have peace anywhere else.

It is those who submit to truth who are really happy. No one who does not submit to truth is ever really happy. It is impossible to be happy if you refuse to live in reality. True joy comes from the love of truth- how could you be joyous if you were incongruent with reality? Things would be chafing constantly; reality bumping uncomfortably up against us. It is like being the right shape, or the wrong shape. Either you fit reality's shape, or you don't.

Far better to learn Reality's shape and fit with it than to doom yourself to the misery of having to manipulate your perception of reality.

Furthermore, we cannot learn to submit to structures we are inclined to dislike until we learn that we can be the wrong shape, which is in a reverse way realising that there is such a thing as Truth. A student does not submit to teaching unless he is willing to conceive he needs to learn something. Even harder, a student will not submit to giving a subject a chance to grow on him unless he believes it is possibly a worthwhile or lovely thing since others think it is worthwhile and lovely. You give other things a chance to be for you what they are for others. This is, I believe, a great deal of the Christian walk.

At any rate, what I really want to say is that we don't even consider submitting to 'lower authority' if we do not believe in truth. It is those that consider they may not be right who actually consider, really think about, whether they should submit to something or not. Unless you believe in truth, you will not let yourself think outside of the box to find out why one might submit to something.