Face and Embrace

Mar 1

I said in a previous podcast that only what is in matter can evolve out of matter. A kitten doesn’t evolve into a German shepherd, an oak doesn’t evolve from a pine cone. Out of the embryo, evolves what is already in the embryo. Nothing is missing. Pre-existent, pre-determined, pre-arranged.

Your existence is a manifestation of that reality of the infinite, that reality of the divine and as I have said before, until the existence thing is addressed, the riddle of your life and what you’re doing here is going to remain unsolved. And as long as it is unresolved, your mind will see life as a meaningless process. All creation is nothing but this self-manifestation.

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Now, I’m simply asking you to consider this possibility, that everything for which you yearn, for which you ache to have, to be, to know already lies inside. That may be hard to believe. But, it can’t be any harder than what you’re currently doing. It is a fundamental and accurate truth to state that the mind is constantly seeking but never finding. Your goals always remaining elusive, always ending up empty-handed in some way. Never having enough, never being enough, never prospering enough.

So, all of the things that go into making up who you are IS you…your energy, your mind, your body, your emotions, the result of which is you…the artist, the brush, the paint, the canvas, the easel all at the same time…and you have not been trained or developed to see it that way, much less understand it. It’s hard to consider it, I know. It sounds so esoteric and while the mind sees the possibility as quite inviting, it doesn’t see it as reality. But it is.

And every day of your life, you get up and seek this. You seek to become that thing, to bring into reality your understanding of what that truth is and to keep expanding, creating greater and greater, more perfected versions of yourself, to once and for all not just know the truth of what you are but to experience that truth. It is in that experience, in that transformation, that you will know joy and fulfillment, of truth coming into manifestation. And, while you must elevate your thinking and understanding about your existence, there’s no need in being naïve about how things work. It is very difficult for the mind to perceive of this, to consider that this is true…that happiness is realizable, ingrained in the individual prior to birth.

In fact, that is the aim of truth consciousness… the realization of itself in physical form that comes by the way of a progressive knowledge. It builds a bridge between the finite and the infinite, between the you you think you are and the you you really are. So, let’s say that this knowledge, this force, this existence IS inside of you but it is hidden.

You live and operate as a separate being in the world and often, feel separated from yourself. And yet, what you seek is the emergence of that force, the truth of who you really are, in everyday life, in everyday terms, not as some miracle, as some kind of spiritual experience, but as the daily standard by which you live, by which you be, by which you think, by which you relate to others.

Your mind and all of the mind’s content which is based not on existence but on experience is not going to be of much help to you because it’s done the best that it could…it’s gotten you about as far as it can get you. It’s only when you can figure out how to get out of your mind and go deep inside yourself, beyond the surface movements of the mind that you stand the chance of breaking through. Of course, this can involve meditation or mental training of some type but it is going to involve learning how to still your mind. The knowledge that you need, the knowledge that will create the bridge from the unconscious you to the evolved you lies not in your mind but beyond your intellect. And essentially, the only way you’re going to be OK is when you are willing to be out of your mind, distancing yourself from the past, the voices of the past that speak of guilt and shame and regret and loss.

Whatever it is that lies hidden inside of you, that’s what it’s seeking…is seeking to manifest, to be experienced, to come into physical form. The joy of coming into being, of being realized. But that is not limited to pleasurable experiences but also to those experiences that you know as painful, challenging, terrifying. In fact, most people will not come in contact with the greater depths of themselves until they experience crushing experiences that force the movement from the periphery to the center, from their outer lives to their inner life. You must learn to concentrate and live in the depths.

That was where I learned about consciousness but as a result of those experiences, through crushing experiences in my life, but I also learned that all of us must learn to live in the inner world and that is going to require a greater truth of who we are and what we’re doing here.

At TruthSpring, we are attempting to create a language and learning processes which express the realities of a new consciousness in a way that embraces the horizontal of your daily physical life and the vertical of your spiritual life. What we are doing is helping provide you with orientation about living your life, of being able to distinguish between cause and effect, between what is real and what is not real.

Heaven on earth is the secret of creation. Heaven on earth lies at the heart of your birth. Heaven on earth is the root of birth. Heaven on earth is why you would want to live forever. You must live within and eventually, with practice and concentration, you will move through life more gracefully, understanding the necessity of everything event in your life and consequently, learn to embrace those events as part of your path and part of your awakening.

It is just habit, the addiction of habit. All your perceptions, all of your responses are just by-products of prolonged habit. That’s all. And you can change your habitual life.

You are a slave to your habits and instead of being satisfied with the addictions that relieve you short-term of your anxieties or fears or self-doubt, you can see another world, you can learn to see the essence of all things. You can learn to master your own mental, physical and emotional responses to your life and you will no longer be a slave.

When you suffer, it should be a clear signal to you that you are not utilizing the truth consciousness inside of you to address, to decipher the blows of life.

So, to do this, it means that you have to learn to face and embrace the difficulties, the problems, for they are but echoes of the inner psychological turmoil that lies inside.

And the hidden you emerges over Time in the uncertain equilibrium of everyday life, expansion only to be followed by contraction, good days only to be followed by bad days, gains only to be followed by losses, the experience of being loved only to be followed by the experience of being rejected, the real you emerging as a paleontologist slowly brushes away the dust.

But the secret of reality is always the same: the joy of existence, the bliss of being alive, of being in the human body, of realizing you are a spiritual being having a physical experience. In that evolutionary process, you must learn to face and embrace, to take responsibility for the issues affecting your life because you are the one who created them. You see, even if deny that you had anything to do with what the other person did to you, you are still stuck with how you chose to respond to it, how you chose to experience it.

The object is to use it to your advantage, to your benefit and I know how hard it can be. In the realm of the physical, of everyday life in a physical body, of operating in a world of duality, consciousness can be viewed as Truth versus illusion…because we do not approach consciousness through who we are as defined by our existence but instead who we are as defined by our experience, our individual responses for the most part reveal our ignorance and lack of understanding.

In the realm of the physical, of everyday life in a physical body, of operating in a world of duality, eternity, the concept of something being eternal, can be viewed as Life versus Death…because we do not approach eternity through who we are as defined by our existence but instead who we are as defined by our experience, our individual responses for the most part reveal our ignorance and lack of understanding.

In the realm of the physical, of everyday life in a physical body, of operating in a world of duality, joy can be viewed as Pleasure versus Pain…because we do not approach joy through who we are as defined by our existence but instead who we are as defined by our experience, our individual responses for the most part reveal our ignorance and lack of understanding.

Facing and embracing your ignorance and your lack of understanding will help you see that the two, the positive and the negative, are married to one another. Facing and embracing the problems in your life will help you gain a unified vision of your life and that unified vision will begin to close the circle that was divided at birth and in time, you will become whole and complete.

“God is equally in joy and in suffering, in victory and defeat. And the warrior in his cause shrinketh not before the suffering, nor is afraid of the defeat; for he seeth the Divine strategy which sometimes retires into ignominy and ridicule to exhaust the Satanic force of its exulting opponents, then rushes forward with immense vehemence and conquers.”

A unified consciousness that is achieved through facing and embracing the barriers that stand between who you pretend to be and who you really are is an essential element of becoming conscious.