Is the truth universal, sacrosanct, and a real part of reality, or not?
@innertalks (21919)
Australia
November 16, 2016 5:25pm CST
The nature of reality and its relation to truth
I was just reading an email I received where the writer stated that there is a big difference between what he refers to as, "the reality of life, and our own reality."
He drew a line between the two states of reality, but with who's pen he drew it with is not too clear. It seems like that it was with his own pen, and not with God's pen, though.
Bill Ferguson, the writer of this article, then went on to say the following:
"When we look at life, we think we are observing the truth of the universe, but we are not. We are observing our own truth."
"In the reality of life, things just are. What happened is what happened. What's so is what's so. Period. Then there is our reality. Our reality consists of thoughts, feelings, emotion, and points of view. There is the truth and there are our feelings about it."
"The truth and our feelings have nothing to do with each other. They are never, never connected in reality. They are only connected in our mind. In reality, our circumstances are the way that they are and our feelings about it are totally irrelevant."
"To see an example of this, find a time when you were upset. Didn’t something happen? Yes. Something happened. That’s the truth. It happened. Now notice how totally irrelevant your feelings were. No matter how upset you were, it still happened. Your feelings may affect your future actions, but they don’t change the truth. What happened still happened."
"The underlying condition"
"If you are at peace with the truth of the way something is, you will have peace of mind. You may not like what you see, but you will see your situation clearly and can see what needs to be done. Look at the areas of your life that work great and notice that these are areas where you can flow with whatever happens."
"Now look at the areas of your life that don’t work. These are areas where you can’t flow. Instead of focusing on what on what needs to be done based on the truth, all the focus is on fighting the truth. This destroys your ability to find solutions and forces you to magnify the problem."
Read his full article here: (see link below).
And yet he's missing an important part here too, I think.
Our own reality, or truth, is still part of this total truth, including the truth of Life's reality too.
Our thoughts, feelings, emotions, and points of view, as he puts it, are all still a part of the overall truth, otherwise, we are separated from it, and this is never ever really so, or is it.
I don't think so. Truth is truth. Love is love. God is God. We are we. There is nothing more, and nothing less. All is truth. All is love. All is God. We are a part of all of this. There is no separation ever really ever possible.
There is no right or wrong here, all is truth, but we only see shades of truth, when we shade it with parts of our own self, being kept separate from the whole truth.
We cannot ever keep ourselves really separate, because the truth is always there, and we always remain a part of it, but we can see it in our own way, when we hold onto this way, and so separate our view from God's view, so to speak.
We then become separate icons, existing on our own created island, in his ocean, but we must allow this ice block of an island to remelt itself, with his love coming into us again, so once more again, we are again an active part of his ocean, moving and going with it, wherever it takes us, and experiencing it all in God's way warmly, not frozen off from it, in our own perceived isolation, which is really only ever just an illusionary creation, of our own mind.
This area is quite complex, and it's hard to know the truth about it all anyway.
What do you think about these issues?
The problem areas of life are never the problem. They are the symptom of something deeper. Remove this underlying condition and this area of life starts clearing up.
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@kumbarn14 (735)
• Pakistan
18 Nov 16
We humans all experience life in different ways from dawn to dust around the Globe as blessed by God. No questions asked - health, wealth and happiness.
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@innertalks (21919)
• Australia
19 Nov 16
It would be good to be able to live without questions, but I for one cannot do so.
Why can't I live without wanting my questions being answered, and just live from God's blessings, and from his love, alone?
God's blessings, I think, often come disguised, and sometimes our questions can prise them (the disguise) open for us sometimes, but it also all depends on the person too, on if they are fully open already, or still closed off a little, within themselves.
Yes, we are all different, even God thinks differently to us.
"'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,' declares the LORD."
This quote is from the Old Testament book of Isaiah, chapter 55, verse 8.
@kumbarn14 (735)
• Pakistan
19 Nov 16
@innertalks life is full of questions and it is you who have to answer yourself but technical stuff IT is there. Take life the way it comes which will bring you comfort.
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@innertalks (21919)
• Australia
19 Nov 16
@kumbarn14 Yes, if we could all learn to take it (life) as it comes, with an active acceptance, rather than with a resigned passive one, perhaps all of our questions would be answered in their own good time too.
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@Shiva49 (26686)
• Singapore
21 Dec 16
Thought provoking Steve. Time heals and experience makes us wiser provided we have the right attitude.
I recall the Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr:
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference."
Life should teach us to inch towards universal truth - siva
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@innertalks (21919)
• Australia
21 Dec 16
"Life should teach us to inch towards universal truth."
That's very true of course, but many of us want to go faster than that!!
When we jump across the inches we can often fall short by a yard.
Every inch, or step, is required I think, no short cuts are possible for us.
"Anticipate the yards by managing the inches", with apologies to Lao Tzu, for changing what he said:
"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy," Lao Tzu.
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@innertalks (21919)
• Australia
22 Dec 16
@Shiva49 Yes, with this aspect of free will, we could move ourselves away from the plan, but even so, I suspect it has self-correcting algorithms built into it that will eventually put things back on track again, perhaps without us in it for a while, but we cannot disappear fully either, and we will pop up somewhere else and be given still another chance to add to the creation, not just take away from, it I think.
@Shiva49 (26686)
• Singapore
22 Dec 16
@innertalks I feel we are having an inclusive ride for now but later it it could turn out to be a mad rush to keep up with the earth, stars, even universe. Then we would realize how we were taken care of, even spoiled rotten, with free ride that we overlook now.
Let us savor the moments and prove worthy to get enhanced later; let us not rock the boat and get ejected - siva
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