How We’re Drawn Toward or Away from Truth

Just as the heart can be drawn toward truth through subtle, often non-rational influences—beauty, music, stories, personal example—it can also be led away from truth by equally subtle distortions. These forces often bypass the conscious mind. They don’t argue. They don’t confront. Instead, they quietly shape the will, the desires, and the inner posture of the soul.

This is why truth is never only about logic or reason. It’s about love. The will must be rightly ordered, not just the intellect. A person may know what’s true in their mind, and yet resist it with their heart. And over time, the heart usually wins.

What we love shapes what we believe.
What we repeatedly choose becomes what we eventually defend.
And the soul develops a posture—a leaning. It can lean toward the light or toward the shadows, often without us realizing it.

How This Happens

1. Media and Art
Media doesn’t need to preach lies outright to shape us. It simply frames what is normal, what is desirable, and what is embarrassing.
A show might never deny the value of family or faith—but it might always portray them as dull, repressive, or broken.
Without realizing it, we begin to feel that way too.

2. Habits and Environments
What we live with every day—our noise level, our schedule, our screens—shapes our inner world.
A distracted, noisy life rarely leads to clarity.
Stillness and silence, on the other hand, prepare the soul to hear truth when it speaks.

3. Emotional Associations
Sometimes we reject a truth not because we doubt it, but because it reminds us of pain, rejection, or shame.
The heart learns to flinch—and eventually to turn away.
This isn’t always rebellion. Sometimes, it’s self-protection.

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So How Do We Guard the Heart?

We guard the heart by being intentional about what we let in.
By choosing beauty over clutter, silence over noise, and truth over convenience.
By surrounding ourselves with people who lift our gaze higher, not drag us lower.
And by remembering this:
Conversion is not just a change in belief.
It’s a reordering of love.
It’s not just about accepting truth—it’s about wanting it.