The truth in nature

All of our misery is because we identify with the mind and ego, our identity is outside the natural state of our being, we have shut down our feelings to think. This causes us to be out of sync with our true and natural nature.

Wisdom, Knowledge and Awareness are waiting for us, but we must feel again the life force within us. We should not make excuses for ourselves! We should not turn away and avoid the most important decision of our life! We choose daily whether we are building a future of peace, wisdom and balance or of loss of all that has real value and meaning in this world and the next.

We do not have to sacrifice one for the other, but we do have to decide which is the foundation upon which we wish to build our life. This cannot succeed if we build on a foundation that is not in alignment with the natural truth of existence. Nature itself understands that to succeed it must follow the truth within universal energies and never goes against itself. It surrenders willingly.

Only man refuses to follow the force of life and the truth in existence. We cannot go against the truth and nature of our being and not suffer, it is impossible.

The simple truth

The truth is very personal in the sense that it is for each person individually and also collectively. You are a very unique expression of life. No one has a truth exactly like yours, but many seek to find and follow the truth of others. This is why it is so rare that anyone finds their truth, because you are looking everywhere except within you.

Life is the natural expression of being, it does not require words, ideas, or the permission of others to be.

To find life you must feel, you don’t have to speak, search in books, listen to tapes, watch video or follow the experience of others. Using the mind and external senses is a sure way to not find your truth.

It is feeling and allowing the silence to reveal your true identity that brings your life and truth to you. It is letting go of expectations and watching or witnessing life as it moves through you in time and space. It is the detached observation with awareness that reveals who you are.

Following the blind

The blind often follow the blind. They seek truth from those who can only sell words and ideas. They fill the mind with new ideas and leave the seeker as blind as before.

You cannot teach truth or reveal reality to another; it must be discovered in the temple of each person’s awareness. In the silence of their personal aloneness it will be revealed to just them when they are ready.

Whispers do not reveal truth in its entirety.

As long as the mind and ego are present, alongside awareness, truth will be an incomplete experience. We exist on the border between reality and illusion. Awareness straddles the fence that divides the mind from our inner reality.

Beyond all definitions

 The ego cannot manufacture life, only ideas. It can use the mind, memory and imagination to create physical objects and summarize the nature of existence through theory, but it does not have the power to bring forth life. It stands alone outside the nature of reality and truth.

Life, Being and consciousness are words used to describe the “I AM” presence. In reality it exists beyond words and is unknowable as an idea, but it can and is felt through your awareness of the truth in you.

Life simply is and exists far beyond all definitions; definitions are for the mind and limited as to the extent that they can embrace reality. Words are a shell that life hides in and life only reveals itself when we become speechless and we are empty of thought.

The poetry of truth and awareness

The truth can only be spoken of in poetic form, because poetry appeals to our feeling nature. It is a great truth that the deeper and closer that one gets to truth the less can be shared and spoken about. Words in poetic form can appeal to our feelings and touch the surface of our awareness and truth, but at some point silence is the only form that truth speaks in. It must be revealed in awareness to each individual and not conveyed by any secondary means.

Truth can only be rightly understood when we become that which our mind seeks and our awareness reveals to us. Wholeness is the proper understanding of our true identity and nature in reality.

To use or be used?

You cannot work with the energies of your spiritual body, chakras or those of another, unless you are aware within. So much spiritual work is done in the name of imagination with little understanding and most importantly no permission of the higher aspects of self or another’s.

You do not become aware to dominate or control existence; you do not even become aware to change your future or your fate or that of another. You become aware to know your true self and to accept your life. Any attempt to use awareness to control circumstances, individuals or outcomes is to play into the hand of the mind and ego. It is to fall into the trap of thinking that you can use the universe, rather than the universe using you.

The clouds

Like the clouds in the sky blocking out the Sun, your mind, emotions and imagination block out the natural awareness within you. It is there, at the core of your being, like a bright Sun shining in all its glory, but you cannot see it because you are influenced more by the clouds.

Attention determines what you are aware of. The Sun is there within you, it has not gone anywhere, but you have to watch and wait patiently as the clouds pass within you. They have a reason for being there, blocking out the Sun. You created the clouds when you created the ego and decided to leave home.

Whispers of Awareness Newsletter

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Defeat

Each defeat is surrender if you take it without judgment or rebellion. Each effort that you make to go somewhere and end up nowhere is taking you to where you need to be. Do not run from who you are and hide the truth or the lies from yourself and others. Accept each defeat as a validation that you are one step closer to looking within at the cause and the creation of your dilemma. Defeat breaks down the “I” in our efforts and causes us to soften our positions and our approach to others and our self. It allows the universe to show us a better way and reminds us that we don’t have to do it all alone.

Whispers of Awareness Newsletter

Whispers of Awareness Newsletter

Beingness

The nature of existence is knowing, but many are not a part of existence, they dwell in the illusion of mind, idea and emotion. Beingness can exist without and beyond thought, but thought must hold onto an idea to exist. The domain of the mind is ideas and eternity is founded upon knowingness.

Meditation releases your attention upon the mind and places it within your conscious knowing where the truth can be revealed. Your identity is no longer attached to thought, but the knowing consciousness of eternity, the real being within you. The line has been crossed from illusion into reality. It is no longer a necessity to search for an identity, because you have found your true identity.

To escape time and space in meditation is to embrace your only real identity. It is to know the unknowable as far as the mind concerns. It is embracing your infinite feeling nature that propels you into consciousness that fills forever. The search is no longer needed, because you have found all that you are and can ever be. Awareness is sharing in the knowingness of all reality and truth.

It is not meditation

In meditation the mind should be used to calm the body, but beware if you are using visualizations as an excuse for meditation. Visualization is not meditation and it will not lead you out of the mind. Images in the mind are ideas and they belong solely to the mind. You can be deceived into thinking that you have had a spiritual experience, but in reality you have just stroked the imagination. This will have an effect on your mind, but it will not necessarily lead to awareness or reality. Reality is not experienced as an image in the mind, it is felt within as your true nature, it is not outside the identity of which you really are. Imagination is outside the reality of who you truly are.

Feel the words

Words do not often express exactly what is felt or being experienced when they stand alone, but feelings can guide words into metaphors and the artful expression of the intimacy within feelings. They can sculpt and mold an experience which the universe uses to touch the very core of those who are reading and hereby awaken the latent knowing within.

Whispers are the artful and creative way that the universe chooses to convey to the receptive mind and heart the reality that waits within feelings. They assist the mind in connecting to the feelings within the words, so that a person can recognize the truth within them. If you feel a whisper deeply it is speaking to the truth already within you.

The breath

Breath is the carrier of consciousness from the infinite to the finite. It is symbolic and also a practical reality within consciousness. It is a bridge and a doorway through which being comes and goes.

The deeper one goes into the breath, the deeper the separation from the mind and the clearer in consciousness becomes your awareness. Identification is dropped with the outside and the inner reality is revealed to you. Your true nature begins to emerge. That which is known is known by you as an element of being, your being. The seeker and the sought have become one in consciousness.

It is not the thinking of the breath that reveals these things, but the feeling of it and the awareness into it that reveals the essence behind it. Your mind can recognize that you are breathing, but it cannot identify with what is in the breath. It has to be felt and made aware of or revealed as the mind loses its control over your identity and attention. You fade from the mind into the breath through your attention to it and your awareness of it.

The best teacher

Do not advertise peace, become peace. Do not sell awareness, become awareness. The world will not change because of slogans, marketing campaigns or crafty ideas and promotions. Influence only captures the mind and makes it a slave to another idea. We will not create change, just another crippled individual in consciousness.

Silence is the best teacher because the mind cannot influence it and neither can we. It waits for us to run in circles in your mind, until we find the courage to approach it, and then it loves us with awareness that cannot easily be placed in words. The romance within the soul begins.

It is the pathless journey into the silence that awakens us and reminds us to feel the wonders of love and life within us. We cannot live on slogans, ideas and campaigns forever. The mind tires of them as the truth dawns on us that we still do not embody the meaning behind them.