The Truth hovers over human folly like a flock of carrion birds patiently waiting for life to flee a wounded animal. We struggle with our ego minds to present a picture of human superiority over little things like politics, morality and destiny. The Truth cares not of these things and allows us our illusions while all the time bathing us in its love. When the struggle has gone out of us, when at last we admit there is nothing more we can do, the Truth cants its wings and glides down out of the sky to return us into itself. Desperation is one path back into our Truth, the one most of us choose. The desperation of having done everything humanly possible and finally coming to peace with the idea that our answers lie outside our human self. Another path is available to us; the path of inspiration that opens before us when we understand how the world works, the natural world unspoiled by human ego.
The Truth is simply what is, all of what is. Call it Spirit, God, Higher Power, call it Fred it does not matter because it speaks all languages, knows all words and assigns no value to any. The Truth knows our hearts. Anyone who has ever played with the family dog calling it all manner of horrible things using the same voice and body language used when praising it for a good deed knows that the dog knows your heart through the tones and movements and is not offended or frightened by the words. We can fool ourselves into believing the words; the words of our parents, our friends, coworkers, classmates and perfect strangers, but Truth is like the dog, seeing through the ruse and loving us in spite of our silly attempts at deception.
In art the illusion of depth and scale is created by assigning a vanishing point to a drawing. It is the point where all parallel lines in the picture merge as illustrated in a photograph of railroad tracks disappearing over a flat horizon. A crafty artist knows the vanishing point does not need to be on the canvas, it can be a point is space existing more as an idea than a physical place. Adherence to its purpose and existence is the only device the artist must employ. Truth lies at that point and all ideas and beliefs emanate from it and converge at it. Keeping that point foremost in our minds keeps everything in perspective. The artist can create works that appear to defy the point’s existence, but art is the manipulation of illusion so even when the art appears distorted it is only because the artist knows and uses the Truth. We appear to defy our Truth with the application of our power of choice. The human condition appears to be a chaotic and distorted and we leap from one illusion to the next thinking we are in control. Movie heroes can jump blindly off a roof and land in a passing truck full of empty boxes, our experiences are rarely so fortuitous. We do take leaps of faith however and where our focus is fixed on our Truth, the Truth delivers to us the fruit of our belief. Where our focus drifts and we place our belief in our ego mind the Truth still delivers to us the fruit of our belief and we are left grasping at the air because we have placed our belief in a non-existent “other.”
Centers for Spiritual Living’s vision is “A world that works for everyone.” (CSL.org )Speaking at a recent gathering its President, Dr. John Waterhouse mused on expanding that idea to include “Envisioning a world where everyone understands how it works.” The world already works for everyone. The world is the Truth in action. In our ignorance of how it works we make unproductive choices. We think we are separate from God, or that there is no God. We follow customs laid down over generations without questioning how they came to be. We assume that because we are separate from God that God plays favorites, or there being no God we are on our own with no consequences to our actions and beliefs. In a world where everyone understands how it works our ego minds make choices in alignment with Truth. Prosperity manifest without greed, we remain healthy because we choose healthy life styles, our creativity flows because we are in harmony with creation and our relationships are symphonic, love responding to love. Understanding how it works, understanding that we are all simply individualizations within the One resets our perspective opening us to inspiration. Our Truth remains patient.