TRUTH

Truth can only be realised anew;
Truth cannot be borrowed.
Truth is what you consciously realise
From your own, personal experience.
Borrowed knowledge is not Knowing.
Knowing comes from personal experience,
Which is always unique.

Like a costume,
Borrowed truth can be tried on to see how it fits
And I encourage everyone to do that,
As many times a day as you can.
But only so that you can have your own experience
From within that perspective,
And Know what you discover for yourself.


Truth cannot be spoken;
It is beyond language.
I can only speak ABOUT the truths I've experienced --
Including this one --
And hope to evoke the unspeakable blossoming of a truth
Realising inside of you.

Truth is permanent -- forever,
And it is ephemeral -- transient.
Both.
Which places it well outside the capabilities of the limited Mind.
Truth cannot be understood;
It is either known, or not known.

Because Truth is so highly individual,
It cannot be decided by consensus or referendum.
No Truth is validated or invalidated by a majority....
It is not a question of voting.
It does not matter if the whole world says something is so,
If it is not your experience
Then it is not your Truth.
When Pilate, hoping to trap Jesus, said to him "They tell me you're the King of the Jews",
Jesus replied "What is your experience of me?"
Pilate hadn't thought of that.

Most people don't know the Truth
Even when it hits them over the head;
Most of us are so full of umpteenth-hand ideas about supposed truths
That they haven't had room or time to experience a real, live, juicy truth
Since they were knee-high to a grasshopper.
All your integrity can do with someone else's assumed "truth"
Is incorporate it as a possibility into your "Maybe" File
And then see what shows up in your experience.
Whatever shows up will be your truth -- for now.

Even when the whole world says something is so
("Everybody knows......"),
If it is not yet in your experience,
Then it is not your Truth.
Conversely, if something is in your deeply held, conscious experience,
Then it is your Truth --for now
And it really doesn't matter a twopenny damn
What anyone else thinks, says, or believes:
Does it?

How do we tell the difference between a Truth and a belief?
If you feel "right" about it -- that's a belief.
A belief excludes alternate possibilities;
A Truth seeks and includes other truths.
A Truth is something you feel neither right nor wrong about;
You just "know" it in your innermost feeling
And your heart quietly signs on
For as long as this Truth lasts.