Monday, April 5, 2010

Listening to the Voice for Truth

Listening to the Voice for Truth
Why listen for the voice for Truth. What is the voice for Truth? Is there really a voice for Truth and where do we find this voice?
This sounds like a head line in a local or national paper that reads “Listen for the Voice for Truth. Extra, Extra, Listen for the Voice for Truth. Is there any truth to that statement?
For me, I listen for the voice for Truth because there is no other voice I really choose to listen to or for. There is a voice for Truth because I hear it and what I hear resonates with me. This voice when I choose to listen for it witnesses for me and reminds me who and what I am. How do I know that I am hearing the Voice for Truth and not some made up imagined voice?
It is the evidence that I see in my life that tells me that there is another way to live or to be. It gives me knowledge that is beforehand that I have not heard or known before. It is pre knowledge of a thing or a person or me. It is knowingness that in my mind I am knowing something again that I really knew before but forgot the knowledge and now I am knowing it again.
It is always original a knowing that I have not thought before in this way. I may have some of the information bits and pieces but not all of it whereas with this type of knowing I have everything all put together perfectly where everything fits and all that I need for that moment is there and not any more then I need at the moment and so it saves time for me. It answers my questions; it does not question but is the answer. It is like having a book of knowledge that is also a book of life and your knowing says to you it has all the answers to all of your questions in one moment. You do not have a question because you have the answer.
Before I became aware of this voice or inner knowing I thought about everything before I really knew what it was. At one point I thought that what I knew on an intellectual level was for me all there was to know in the moment. I realize now that the information I was holding onto was incomplete and fragmented and did not give me the whole story or picture of what was really going on or happening. Consequently things did not happen the way I would have liked it to happen. I really didn’t know what was happening even though I thought I did.
In this state of mind I do not worry about the outcome because I know that they outcome will be one where it is all mutually beneficial for everyone and everything and the outcome is not a stagnant thing that is not going anywhere but is a outcome that is ever flowing like a river that always is leading to a shore. I am always arriving where I always have been. I am always meeting myself at the shore in everything or encounter. I am always meeting up with myself again and everyone shows me who I am
I was in the habit of thinking the worst about anything. I would look at it first from a negative standpoint and because I first saw it negatively the outcome was always distorted from what I would like it to be.
I would always make a mountain out of a mole hill and this was because now that I know different and because I am listening to another voice in my mind that is telling me a different story about myself in which I am redeemed and found worthy and of value to myself and others. Before that I felt worthless inside and that no one really cared about me, but now because I am listening more and more to the internal Voice of Reason, clarity and understanding beyond my own scope of understanding I am finding support and my needs are being fulfilled even before I really ask or do anything. I feel peace and much less conflict with myself and others.
It is the evidence that is being constantly shown me that lets me know that this voice is true or let us say for the moment is what I choose to listen for. I realize that there is another way to learn and know.
Before I really became aware of this Voice I would basically refer to my past knowledge to figure anything and use that as a path of decision making. I know now more than before that I was just living out old tapes in my mind. Reliving the past in the present so every situation or person I met was interpreted or colored in the way that I saw the past. I was not really aware of the present. I saw the past as the present and so that is the way I interpreted everything was from a past perspective.
I saw myself or my past concept of myself as one who is independent of everyone and everything always estranged and disconnected having no real relationship or any real meaning that was fulfilling for me and others.
Myself talk that was going on in my head was something I put my attention on regularly or consistently. I didn’t ask myself what am I listening too. It was so ingrained that I identified with it completely as if this is the voice of reason that I am listening to meaning my voice and therefore stuck or imprisoned by a false sense of who I am. I believed that this voice was true or rather this voice was coming from me. I didn’t really question that much. Until I was told by others that witnessed for me another voice within me that I had not yet recognize as the voice for Truth.
I know this voice is true for me because what It tells me to say or do always come out better than the outcome that I might of thought it would be or what I would of attempted to say or do. I have much better outcomes and I can see things in the future that are different then than the past. I am more in the present right now doing what I love to do and find a passion for or a desire to experience. I feel much better about myself and I am not as overwhelmed when something comes to my mind or my experience.
Of course when I didn’t listen to the voice then there was a feeling of delay or impatience and things would not turn out exactly as I would have wanted them to, not knowing what the outcome should be but always in the long run it would turn out exactly as it was needed.
I do not struggle or doubt this self as much with this internal dialogue with myself the Self that I truly am which I now know that this Voice is my eternal Self and it can see the past, present and the future at the same because this Self that I am doesn’t exist in time, but in eternity. It does not see things separate from each other but connected as if a weave of strands made into a tapestry that shows many different colors that are individual by themselves but together unique and whole within a beautiful tapestry of life.
To see life in the context of wholeness is to begin to see your real Self being mirrored through all of life where one can see their perfect image and reflection on the river of life. A Course in Miracles says, I am as God created me. I am one Self united with my Creator.
That is the Truth for me not because a book or someone said it but because KNOWING that Self that I am, I experience my Self being one with all there is one with all of life connected at a Source of Center which I find in my Self to be true and united.
I breathe in from this center all that I am and breathe out from this center into the universe and the world in which I experience myself and all that I am in everyone and everything. This experience of Self being connected to all in communion with everyone and where I am embracing all of life as it at the same time is always embracing me I find is God. This is to me a day of resurrection.
Now in knowing and being this Truth that I am I am not afraid of whom I am. I am not afraid as much or what the future may be because I am not looking at it from the past of what it was to me. I am looking at it from the Present and in that view I find the future always fresh and new.
I find that the Voice for Truth is really my own voice of the true Self in me now. It is called by many names but to me it is the same voice I hear in everyone. Everything is an echo for the Voice for Truth. It is the creative power and sound of the universe. It is the wave of the universe the music of the spheres. It is the Holy Spirit and your right mind. It is the intuitive part of your being that knows all things because it is always in a state of infinite knowing or omniscience and at the same time it is you.
This all Knowing is always in the present and the past and the future is always one thing in one moment.
There is always the freedom of Movement and freedom of choice or what we call free will or the use of will is always factored in every moment.
In that moment everything is Known. One can say that this voice of Spirit is coming from pure Awareness of everything past present and future. It is the all-seeing eye of God and the voice for God that is also the sound of creation that can manifest infinite intelligence in a single moment.
Why is there a Voice for Truth because when we choose the idea of separating and being a independent agent, the call arose in us to return and that call has continued through eons of time even until now to come home and that where we thought we were going was nowhere. Once we realize that this voice was always ours and comes from our source and we finally join with the Reality of what is being in us that we already Are and we in consciousness come one with our source there will not be us and the voice for truth or the Holy Spirit but we will have realized again our oneness with all of creation and our Creator our Sonship with God as our Father and be the Truth that we already Are.
Ask what the Truth is for you in your being, but first learn to become still by quieting the out mind by not listening to it anymore and turn your attention to listen to the inner mind of Truth. Be still and Know I am God.
Hesitate before any assertion of will or moment of decision or any time you can remember and ask what is the Truth here. Let me experience everything as it is now and not as I think it. There is a phrase that says, Pray without ceasing which is be in constant communion with your one Source. Keep that connection alive with your right intention and focus. Live in the stillness, live in the cloud of unknowing. Let your cup be empty so that it may become full with the full awareness of what you are being with all that is.
It is simple but it does take practice and constancy. It does take a little effort at first until the effort become effortless and you find yourself flowing with life movement and stream of consciousness.
As you allow this to open up in you every day and to the degree you allow it will your path also open up to you and you will find your way of freedom again, the freedom to be happy, joyous and free.

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