Monday, July 18, 2011

The Problem with Truth

It has been said, and lectured, noted, DVD'd and otherwise, that truth is inconvenient.
But, if you think relative truth is inconvenient, just wait until spiritual Truth comes knocking at the door of your awareness.

The problem is, you are not who you think you are.

That, is a big, big, problem. I mean, think about it. If you don't know who you are, how can you know who anyone else is either? How can you truly help if you don't know yourself or others, or, more accurately that there is no self and no other, that there is only One of us here?
The short answer is, you can't.
The long answer is, you can appear to serve them. You can serve who you think they are, and in the process, the part of them who thinks they know who they are can feel served. And you will feel very good about it because you are also serving who you think you are.
This level of service is not bad or wrong. It's just that it is an illusion.
You just have to be aware that in all of this, you are not necessarily serving Truth.
You are not necessarily serving Love, Life, Beauty, Freedom.
You are not serving Reality.

We talk about this issue and that issue, and these people and those people. But who are we really talking about? What are we really talking about?

When you are unaware that you don't know who you are, it's not really a problem. All of the little rules you have created. All of the little identities you live from. All of the little goals and dreams. All of these are safe and sound, and you can go on living from these little ideas of who you are.

But when you start to read things like this, you begin to have a problem. When you begin to place yourself in gatherings and groups of those who are Awake, and awakening, together, to the One, you will start to have a real problem.

You will start to see yourself in a way you have never seen yourself before. You will start to see others in a way you have never seen them before. You will notice that all of these things you did for self-protection, self-promotion, self-anything, will start to feel very silly. Whether you were doing them because of a genuine fear that you had, or, because of others convincing you that you "had to", it will just not make sense anymore.

So, while there are annoying little details, like having to restructure your entire life, as you become aware of the Truth of Who You Really Are, don't despair ( and you won't be ), there are also positives as well.
No more being manipulated by fear, guilt, shame. No more blaming others (yeah, sorry, maybe that should go in the annoying details list), no more worry, doubt, depression, and no more inhabiting a little mind of little ideas, and little plans, and little fears. No more being run by a little despot of thought, acting from there, and mistakenly calling it living.

As the Truth becomes made Knowing in your awareness, you won't be run by little fears. You will become aware of the things that really matter. You will come to know it is no accident you are here on the planet, and even though you may have been spiritually asleep for decades, the Truth will set you free to your real purpose. It will challenge you to fully live. And to fully serve. Not the way that small mind thinks you should, but the way Truth guides you to.

It will remind you that you are not here for you, you are here for Us, for Life, for Love, and that there is, through free will, an actual possibility that you will leave the planet without doing what you came here to do. There is an actual possibility that you will have missed your opportunity to serve Life, to access and share your deeper spiritual gifts, and in doing so, missed the entire point of your existence on the planet at this time of transformation, transition, and New Earth manifestation.
To the Soul, that is not just an inconvenient truth, it is a devastating one.

So, before you sit down to read spiritual enlightening material, or go on a meditation retreat, or pray to know the Truth so that you may be a brighter point of Light on the planet and serve the true purpose of your Soul, just remember that it might not feel or be all that convenient, but, at the end of the day it will be Real, and to that little mind of small realities and small truths, it will definitely be Beyond Belief!