Truth, Love, Existence

by Robert Cosmar

Nothing is more feared than the truth. It peels away all mis-perceptions and lies. It unveils our deceptions, both intended and unintentional. It lays us open and bare-naked, often separating us from others as we contemplate our next choices. We've all had that moment of truth in a relationship where we thought we had something real and yet it manifested as an impostor. Nothing hurts as deeply or digs so painfully into us as when a moment of truth occurs. Discovering illusions can be like a death within us.

We think we know it all; we're sure we've found it all. We feel nothing new can come and surprise us when life feels good -- we're sure it will last forever. Life and love, however, have plans that go far beyond our meager perceptions. Death in its many forms makes it sure that the plan or love continues to flourish in time and space. This is why when we feel love and have love, we have to appreciate it, because we never know when it will be taken away (or go away) -- and it does. Time gives us the opportunity to experience love, but there are no guarantees that it will last, or even exist, beyond our current life.

It's the fear of truth that prevents love from growing, evolving and blossoming. It's the compulsion to hold on too tightly to what we have that strangles love and this can make love die too early. We have to risk to love, and realize that love has terms and conditions. The joy of getting can always turn into the pain of losing. It's only through a living awareness that we understand and accept the plan of life, and we get a faint belief or intuition that it is not over, it is never really over. I will see you again is a stubborn hope that everyone echoes, but in reality, there are no promises from existence that it will be so. Only love and the feeling of what seems right can offer any hope of a guarantee that we're eternally linked together in our dance of existence.

The more aware we become, the more of an individual we are becoming. This realization can be confusing at first as we feel our human need for love dissolving into a deepened love of self and others. We can help each other grow in love and experience love, but in the end, our own personal experience of that love is what matters. The evolution of duality into reality is the outcome of any enlightenment. This doesn't mean that we stop loving or caring -- far from it. It simply means that emotional forms of love are replaced by a deeper more secure knowing of self and others. It allows more freedom and trust to express our self through creating in our partnership with existence. We do move on through death and change, but the core of love in all of us binds us to an eternal brother/sisterhood which never dies or changes. When we are truly, finally, at home within us, only then can we feel, know and recognize we are a cosmic and connected family.