Truth Has Bad Breath at Times

As you become more conscious in a
relationship, you can no longer milk
it for its romanticism, because it is more
interesting than that. It really is, but
people keep wanting to romanticize
their lives all the time. It's part of the
culture. However, the awakening process
starts to show you the emptiness of that
form and you start to go for something
deeper. You start to go to meet another
human being in truth. Truth is scary.
Truth has bad breath at times. Truth is
boring. Truth, you know, burns the food.
Truth is ... all the stuff. Truth has anger,
it has all of it. But, you stay in it and you
keep working with it and keep opening
to it and keep deepening it.

Ram Dass