What is Truth?

This question has rung through the ages, has it not? And it has had millions and millions of responses and so-called “answers”. Even in this very day, there may very well be a million different interpretations of “truth”. There are those who loudly proclaim and force their truth on others. And there are those who silently live their truth in quiet and peaceful lives.

There is a quote that loudly spoke to me one day. Maybe I have put it in this blog already, I don’t know. It goes like this: “Truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It dropped and shattered into a thousand pieces. Each man picked up one piece, and believed they had the whole truth.” How true is that?… And can I really say each man did not have the truth? No. But did any have the whole truth? No.

Let’s bring this right down personal. How can I make most sure I am most truthful with myself? Am I willing to see myself completely and utterly how I am? Am I willing to explore every square inch of me? Not from judgement or shame, but from love. To speak and see and hear the truth through love. Am I willing to examine my belief systems and ask questions around them? Truth will stand, no matter what. No amount of examination will erode a belief system, unless it is not built on truth. Truth will become more solid under examination and questioning. Lies will collapse under questioning. It takes courage to examine and question. We have to be willing for the possibility that what we have built our lives on might not hold up so well. This goes back to how much we love the truth. Do we love and trust it enough that we know we are safe with it, even if it up-ends certain aspects of our life?

If we were to strip every single thing, system, idea, etc., down to where ONLY what was completely and absolutely true was left standing, after all the questions were asked and answered based on truth, might we have only a very few pillars left standing? And would we discover that we could take the bulk of humanity and how they live their lives in very different customs, cultures, and ways, and most could easily use these pillars of truth, apply them and make them their foundation. Might it only make their lives more beautiful, while maintaining their culture and customs, as long as they weren’t hurtful toward themselves or others?

Our tendency is that when we feel like we have finally arrived at the truth and we hold it in our hands, then it is time to go out and bring other people into this truth. And why not? Because isn’t it the truth after all?? Remember the mirror. I hold one piece, and you hold another. Are they exactly the same? No. Do they come from the same source? Yes. We can see from this that there is never a good reason to judge anyone. They hold a different piece of the mirror than I do.

I like to think that we each actually ARE the piece of mirror. And so, you are a unique reflection of God, and I am my own unique reflection of God. They are both beautiful. At times I am tempted look at your reflection and di-sect and examine it and see the ways it doesn’t line up with my reflection. Then I move into judgment and self-righteousness. At that moment I have lost my connection to my own truth, and my refection has become blurred. I have lost grace and am no longer operating from love. Fear takes over and I begin to think that either you or I have to be wrong. Judgment toward you says that you are wrong. Judgment toward myself makes me afraid I might be wrong. Both come from the same thing - fear. And remember - there is no fear in love.

The great search for truth continues. Somehow I wonder if we will find it when we stop looking and grasping for it. When we become still and just let go. When we say a simple prayer of surrender - like the last blog post said - until we enter the stillness of “I don’t know”. Maybe we’ll gaze into the piece of the mirror we hold and see the beauty, the perfect essence of God it holds in spite of the jagged and splintered edges. We’ll gaze and we’ll see, really see what it is. There is no label, no ownership, no attachment. It is too big for one person to claim, too deep and wide to comprehend, to eternal to grasp, and too much to encompass.

Set your intention that you want nothing but the truth. Then relax, you are safe. That prayer and intention will open the door to bring it to you. You do not have to figure it out, push for it, agonize over it. If you, to the depths of your being, want the total and complete truth, how it is true for you, you are completely and absolutely safe. You are not lost. Life might look like a mess, it might feel like it’s falling apart, but isn’t that what has to happen when lies fall apart so that truth can take hold?…

Dear one, I feel your heart, and right now I pray that God will send a whisper of breeze through your being to calm and soothe your spirit.

“And you shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

“And they will say to you, ‘Look there!’ or ‘Look here!’ Do not go out and follow them. For as the lightening flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.”

RCY

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