Saturday, October 25, 2014
The clash of truths? How can that be?
So, I was really wondering based on some experiences in my life why there are things that I am sure are true and I find others believing exactly the opposite. In a moment in my life when someone shared their thoughts on something I felt the opposite about I was scratching my head. It got me to thinking about the foundation of truth. So, truth is built like a building. There is a foundation, but here is where I think I have sometimes misunderstood. When a baby is born, they are born knowing the foundation of truth- they look for it (love) and recognize it without needing to think about it at all. The foundation of truth, is truth, it is love, life and light, defined in the experiencing, and in the fruit of being in truth. For a baby, at that point in their life they have no ability to intellectually think about it, nor could they explain the truth that they understand, they simply know and by intuitive experience, they participate in their own knowing. How often have you looked to a child because of how they live their truth? As you grow you develop your ability to think and you take in the "truths" of others. Sometimes their "truth" , especially one that is taught by intellect, grows . You are so excited about all of that intellectual learning and begin to separate yourself from the truths that were innate and that just are, life love and light, in favor of those you can aptly and outwardly define and make intellectual sense of. The challenge of the separation is that it holds doubt, insecurity, and fear, all the antithesis of truth. As you feel these things, you want to cling tighter to control, to knowing…….., whether that is by another "truth" that you may have learned from a source that was doing exactly as you are, struggling with their own separation from truth. Sometimes the most powerful "truths" are those that you are taught by someone very afraid. Leaving you hovering in a feeling of being kind of lost in our own world, but holding such a feeling of power that you don't know how to find your way back to what you once knew. But then neither is it designed for you to find our way back, but the hope is that you will find our way forward.
So here you are lost in your intellect, control and "truths" that define your world, not necessarily the ones that bring life, love and light, though there may be some of those in the package you are holding but, you may be hard pressed to separate them out and truly embrace them. You continue on in this way until the load of "truths" that are not, become greater than the "truths" that really hold life. So you take the pack off and start sorting. At first you are like young children, reacting to emotion, or reacting to an intellectual argument or clumsily trying to put the two together and maybe forgetting the experiential aspect of seeing and you may start throwing things away. Sometimes you may just get mad and we don't know why and at what, but it is really about the lies that are there somewhere, When watching someone else do this it can be alarming if they start touching "truths" that you are holding. I know for it frightened me terribly. and I did want to intervene and hold it all up for them to see, so they could see as clearly as I thought that I did, But the missing piece to that is the lies that you may be holding, for they are also coloring your perception, and the clarity that you think you have, and until you have the courage to take off that pack and start sorting you will not understand the clumsiness of the effort, the anger at being lied to, without even knowing what the lie is, you feel indignant and want justice and to make it right, but the sorting is a process, of time and experience. And requires the most gentleness from ourselves and from those who love you, if you are ever to see truth, it will be through love…….., not love or, truth offered from another to purpose your journey, but an offering you make to yourself that will change the journey. At first we don't know how to use our intellect, our emotions or our experience to see, but as time passes the real experiential holding of the truth is the fruit, the aha moments happen more often and You begin to see life, light and the love, they start returning along with hope and your future. And we begin to get the hang of it, how emotion plays into your knowing, and how your intellectual speaks and finally, it all comes together - the final piece, the fruit, the experience ties all that you have learned and felt into the unveiling of the truth. We feel it through our being, just like as a child, only with different eyes this time. We don't know instantly. In fact the whole of life is about uncovering truth, and it takes that life. So we can hold both ourselves and others gently, without fear, in trust that the truth will rise through it all and while, they are sorting through their tears and their anger, their clumsiness and lack of understanding, you can hold them without fear, in the love that has filled your own experience of painful sorting, and remembering that when, and it will happen, another's process is making us uncomfortable, then perhaps there is a "truth" aching to be heard in our own package of life. And the sorting begins all over again……………..
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