New-found truths will challenge and change our perceptions, but this is the most noble of tests we must suffer. It is the price we pay for our apparent autonomy and sense of self. The root cause that provides us with our life’s significance!
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
Blaise Pascal
I realise that truth-seekers suffer! They often stand alone in their suffering, because their new-found insights separate them from their current life. Yet in these intense moments we need connection and support more than ever. In part we can defer to the Divine as higher power and purpose and acknowledge the blessing of our new realities, but we need others as a consequence of the increased recognition of our own insignificance. Through others we are then called back into our own usefulness to others.
Sincere truth-seekers develop an awareness of self. Self awareness brings visible to us the inner states of our own mind.
Opening up to and clarifying the inner states of our mind brings with it higher and more acute self-awareness and so too the trials and tests that come with having new insights and being confronted with choices.
As a result your mind is likely to experience a little turbulence as you rearrange the wires and boxes that are your thoughts and affections when you do the inner work.
Your inner peace does not come from doing the work and the subsequent turbulence, but from the increasing sense of self and strengthening of our moral convictions after, which result from having conquered those battles.
