It’s Thanksgiving tomorrow, and I’ve been reading several things on gratitude—a feeling that has offered many opportunities shall we say to explore when it arises and especially when it doesn’t. It started me off on the inquiry: what am I really grateful for — in this world, in my life? In meetings where Truth is allowed, wondrous works occur — amazing things happen. Am so grateful to those who show up for them.
I found myself reflecting on this gratitude thing that has been going on for a few decades: have an attitude of gratitude. People were starting up gratitude journals and really trying to get that beneficial vibration going in their systems. Nothing wrong with it. The trouble is when it isn’t actually true, isn’t how we feel or what is real for us. So we are divided within ourselves. oops!
It’s very useful to tell the truth about that. Here’s what I’m NOT grateful for: _____. Then we can be grateful we can get it off our chests! What a relief!
Ever notice how good it feels when someone tells their real experience in the now vulnerably, genuinely, sincerely, not like a hatchet murderer? It’s so good to have it out there to be seen and heard — for everyone involved!
That’s when it dawned: what I’m really grateful for is truth, all of it, no matter what. So that truth has been working in my system, as truth does, as yesterday unfolded into night, and upon waking this morning, before getting out of bed, it started writing itself.
Keeps me quite busy, truth. It IS very inconvenient!
Now tell the truth, Gangaji would say in her fond, playful, yet direct implacable way. The person she was speaking with cooperated, and shazam!
The whole truth and nothing but, so — help me God!
I don’t know about you, I’m a reader, always have been. It’s part of why I’m enjoying
so much. Frequently what happens is that something will stand out to me, and I end up being worked by it, like this — being grateful for truth.I started with Christian mystic Joel Goldsmith back in the fall of ‘96. (Gosh, i sound like an old timer! Back in the old days last century!) How it used to be is I’d go to a bookstore, wander around certain sections and a book would stand out, jump out at me, even fall off the shelf upon occasion. My first Joel book (and there are many) was The Art of Spiritual Healing.
Just now I pulled it out of my bookshelf and opened to where an old bookmark was and this quote was there:
Since God is my consciousness, and God, or Truth, fills my consciousness and is the substance and activity of it, the Truth is the substance of the form of everything within my universe, even if it appears as a tree or a flower, an enemy or a friend. Everything in my universe responds to that awareness. (Emphasis mine).
I embrace my universe within my consciousness, a universe formed of, and by that consciousness, and because my consciousness is filled with Truth, my universe manifests the activity, quality and substance, the nature and the character of Truth, of eternality and immortality.
Wow, I didn’t expect that when my musings on being grateful for truth began this morning! I am always amazed by the workings of the inexpressible Word of Truth, and that is what I am so grateful for — that it has revealed itself to be true. I get an impulse, “pull that book out, find a quote on the activity of truth,” and here we are.
I was starting out to express something regarding the activity of Truth in my consciousness. Whiz-bang — Joel’s assertion of Truth knocks it out of the park! He’s the one that got me looking into the activity of Truth within me, one of those shining standout statements. But that is it. Just in this moment, rereading this passage for the 7th or 8th revisit over the years since ‘96 — I see how real it has become in me — And yet — opens and deepens even further right now. It’s coming home in me, It’s richer and clearer, a statement that is being abided within and lived out as so. It’s like this Truth washes through my soul bringing out a natural aptitude now for gratitude.
I’ve been set up! Truth is having its inimical highly influential way with me, and is so imbued with love for this peculiar particular emanation thereof — astonishing! How grateful Am I in this moment?! — Let the rejoicing begin! It’s true! In my gratitude explorations, thanks giving evolved, grew into rejoicing, celebrating This Life of Truth and Love. I take the short route these days, bypass giving thanks straight to happy feet dance!
One of my favorite forms of Truth is laughter. Have you ever noticed, especially when laughing at nothing, there are no thoughts? Energies are released. It’s such a saving grace, our sense of humor. There’s a perspective involved that’s different than the usual positions we take. We come equipped with a funny bone, thank Goodness, image and likeness. Laughter spontaneously arises in some of the most difficult places of pain. It is truly the best medicine.
I’ve been a devotée of truth since my initial major disillusionment in ‘68. I was done with the God of what I now call my misunderstanding at the ripe old age of 16. It was an extremely difficult time for me, personally, and for our country and the world as well. I couldn’t find any evidence of the god I was told about anywhere.
But I was curious, and Truth wasn’t done with me. It kept knocking at my closed locked door until it broke it down. It took two years. I left atheism after one and became an interested curious agnostic for another year. After all, if a scientific genius like Einstein can say, God doesn’t play dice with the universe, I needed more information. Then the doors of perception opened, and Oneness was the direct experience.
We’re not really short on information, are we? But not all information is truth, is it? In fact, some of the information we are fed over and over confines us to ideas, factoids, that aren’t true.
Our great contrast, here in the land of dualistic consciousness, is the lie: the lie of separation, disconnection, self and other, that matter isn’t spirit/Truth; that consciousness randomly arises from matter. Most everything in our world today, especially our economy, is run by this lie. No wonder we’re in such a mess!
So, on the one hand, I’ve got Flip Wilson, and his skits around the phrase, “The devil made me do it” from his “church of what’s happening now” (I like that!) and on the other, Crosby Stills and Nash singing “Teach Your Children.”
The truth is all over, in comedy, in music, in the arts, not so much in politics though, huh? Its first death throes began with Nixon. O what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. We’re deep in the doo-doo now. We’ve rife with masters of being true to the lie and having people believe them. They deliver it with authority and conviction, very convincing when it triggers the feelings of suffering angry helpless people.
One of the things I’ve appreciated about truth is that it not only liberates, it is so free it has no words or concepts. It cannot be codified, though we sure try, don’t we? We have wars about our concretized notions “I’ve got The Truth and you don’t, so you deserve to die, be judged and condemned.” That is NOT the truth that makes us free. No, Joel captured it, the Truth is the substance of the form of everything within my universe, even if it appears as a tree or a flower, an enemy or a friend.
Me, “on the road must have a code that you can live by” as Nash’s song goes: for me, it’s this — be and live true to the highest truth you know and have felt, sensed and experienced to be true.
I’m a simple person, I like things simple: simple elegant truths like e=mc2. For me, it’s the revealed and experienced Truth of Unity.
It is a truth that delivers the Real time and time again, in every situation and circumstance, every person. My devotion to it has had me wrestling deeply with the horrors of humanity. There are no exceptions, so how does a person come to terms with unity in the face of evil?
Here, once again, not knowing, presencing and inquiry serve this Love of Truth. The lessons Yeshua taught about love and truth excoriate the most minute places of disunity within us. Layers and layers of conditioning get penetrated until in every instance Truth reveals Its powerful presence. We are done for!
Believe you/Me, it’s such a demanding path Truth leads us on, that nothing is left of conditioned consciousness whatsoever. It has taken me down into depths of hell, ploughing through what I’d really rather not know, harrowing the fields of degraded human consciousness.
We can honestly say, we, of ourselves, would never do this. We wouldn’t take the time and energy to undertake our self and, like the myths of old, go live in the underworld for periods of time, half a year even, bringing the light of our consciousness of truth with us. We are the One still “dying” for the mistakes of degraded human consciousness, that, in truth, in its transcendent state is still absolutely pure, free, untrammeled by any of it.
How grateful can we be that in certain dimensions of our consciousness, as we are right now, This Is True and Real?! It is at work in us, ringing out when we read, hear, or glean the shimmering glimmering truth within us.
Is it ringing in you now? Are you resonating with what is said here?
This unspeakable Truth long ago grabbed me and has hung on throughout pain, loss, illness, poverty, confusion, lostness, utter dismay about self and others, has dropped me to my knees, gotten me down on the floor eating carpet “uncle, uncle, I give!” It has done so, so many times, through dark nights, through deep despair, rage, inner torment, agony.
And again and again supplied the stubborn tenacity, the determination, the insistence that the truth reveal, that the silver lining show up in all the upending superstorm clouds, that the very substance and form of all I perceive and experience reveal itself to Be This Love and Truth. Again and again supplied the strength, the compassion, the mercy, the illuminations, insights, the willingness to do whatever it takes, to sacrifice, to give way, to die to myself. Again and again graced me and my life with what was needed, hard as much of is was, has been, and in some ways continues to be, and lifted me up wholly into places within it’s realm I never could fathom or imagine. And it has done so for my LightHearted friends as well.
And believe you/Me, I’ve studied lots of people and their true reports and descriptions, even modalities and teachings, poetic mystical expressions all, and still couldn’t fathom wherefrom they spoke until it dawned in my own conscious experience. It’s what I unerringly longed for — a true guide and compass on the inner journey Home to right Now Here in this life being lived; that’s given to write and publish this stuff; to let This Voice speak.
Before I wind up this little writing on a topic I could speak on forever, I want to return to this sentence:
Everything in my universe responds to that awareness.
Back in my Angelic Outreach days in the 80’s, Archangel Ariel and others said, “The universe rearranges Itself to accommodate your pictures of reality.” Boy, howdy, to find out for yourself if that assertion of a law of the universe is actually true is some journey! But Joel is saying the same thing differently.
Now that we are more bio-energetically aware, we are looking at our vibes: (those good good good good vibrations 🎵 -Beach Boys) what we are attuned to, calling real, making real thereby, that everything is energetically vibrating as a kind of universal essential conversation going on at all kinds of levels. And then to consider that the universe responds, mirror-like, boy howdy!
What we believe unconsciously is incredibly involved in that. It’s how we discover what we actually hold to be true. We unconsciously embody, vibrate, act out of and make our own experiences and recreate old familiar realities out of present possibilities. Our little very identified conscious minds with all our good intentions paving roads to hell have very little to do with it, no matter how hard we try to force ourselves into our version of good (not bad).
The Presence of Truth adores both ends of the polarities, of the dualistic spectrum, as Itself. This radical accepting allowing presents us with opportunities of reconciliation and our arising into freedom to naturally occur.
Love of Truth, when it really takes hold of you as it has me, is highly inconvenient. It’s been so, when, like today, it starts expressing itself and doesn’t let go until it’s done. In the past, I’ve cancelled plans with friends because I was caught in a larger gestalt coming into and activating my system. It has gone on for days without let up. I don’t attend to things in my life and world well, yet what comes today, as I am 5 hours into writing this, is even clearer and more beautiful, nourishing and fulfilling.
Truth is having its way not just with me. The universe is being regenerated, all my relations, the intra-connected, holyfractalgrammic interdimensional Whole’s appearance is being rearranged for the Good of All. It’s none of my doing, I couldn’t possibly. Love’s Word of Truth within and Omnipresent as the Unity Self of US, doeth the works. There’s a deep loving intimacy with ourself, within our Self as OneSelf, along with the unified Whole, with all that with which we are intra-connected, that forms our very body and soul. Substance, nature, quality all actively essentially engaged in this very moment, as we are, all NowHere as US, each, all, and no one at all.
Truth of Unity as This that Only Is, This Truth and Love, Peace and Freedom and Joy of Being is our rock, our foundation and ground for living. It holds, guides, blesses, uplifts, and works in us, our lives, relationships and world. It places us directly in the zone of the miraculous, in the realm of beauty that truth is, in brilliancy and illumination that is continuously at work, the underlying overarching withinness — the governing principle that has our perfection as This well in hand, as perfectly imperfect as we humans are.
It’s only natural.
I love this section:
And you (Can you hear?) of tender years (And do you care?)
Can't know the fears (And can you see?) that your elders grew by (We must be free)
And so, please help (To teach your children) them with your youth (What you believe in)
They seek the truth (Make a world) before they can die (That we can live in Peace).
Thank you 💜 i loved it, to walk with you on your musings and share of your wave of love.