Defining Truth
From the “Life is Meant to Work” Tele-seminar
Truth is a fundamental element in real experience. It connects our common reality, and is the foundation of it. It is what gives us real stability. And yet people often feel they have to avoid it, in order to keep the stability of the substitute worlds they are holding in place. At the same time, we assume mutual understanding between each other about what is actually true. We all have had the experience of knowing when the truth is obvious, such as when the indication of truth becomes so massive there is no way to avoid seeing it, or knowing it.
Truth is transparency. It’s seeing what is really there. Being truthful means conforming to actuality, to reality. It’s as though we’re usually living in an opaque atmosphere, which is masking what is actually true. And some people can see through it more than others can. And there are also times or certain conditions that happen in common human experience where that atmosphere thins out, and becomes for the moment, transparent, when something is so apparently true that no one can miss it.
People try to hide many pieces of truth, because of what seems to be either in their own self-interest or the self-interest of someone else, feeling as though they know what the repercussions would be if they didn’t. And sometimes it seems to work, and sometimes it doesn’t. In interpersonal relationships, in which the relationship really matters to you, if you don’t open it up to truth everywhere possible, it limits the potential of the relationship. But truth means engaging and getting involved, because it often takes you down a path you hadn’t anticipated, outside of your control. It has a life of its own. It is connected to a reality beyond what you could possibly conceive of, beyond the perspective and scope of limited human perception.
When we speak “the truth” we are revealing something that is objective. It is something we don’t control. It’s not about giving an opinion or advice, or making a judgment. Those can often be done without consciousness. Truth is more conscious than that. It has to do with revealing where you are. There is a difference between giving an opinion or advice — and being aware that we gave it. Our opinion, advice or judgment may or may not reflect truth, but it is true that we had those thoughts and ideas, and gave them. Our responses and ideas can come from many sources, some connected to inspiration and some connected to limited human perception. When they are connected to limited human perception, then the value of having expressed the idea is not about the content of it, but is about having revealed something true about you. And the truth that is revealed is the fact that you had this idea. That is what is true. The content of the idea, itself, could be described as a reflection of your limited perception, which didn’t make it past the walls of your defended self. You can either embrace the truth revealed by that or go in the opposite direction. If you embrace it, it can lead to your transformation, and therefore, evolution.
If, your thought comes from inspiration instead of coming from limited human perception, then you are tapping into Divine Source, and the content, itself, then reflects what is true. You have reached beyond your defended self where you are just reflecting back on yourself, and have broken through to a larger and real Source. And so in this scenario you are coming to truth from two directions: The content of the thought itself, as well as the fact that you had that thought.
Everyone inherently knows that truth is extremely powerful. But what they don’t know is if truth is for them, against them, or just arbitrary? And so people tend to feel afraid of its power and therefore often control it from being revealed. And so whether truth is for or against us, or is arbitrary, is the real issue. Everything hinges on the answer. Whichever we decide, and whichever the truth of it is, determines the world and reality we are living in.
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