The Truth as we Know It

Our consciousness is the only truth we will ever know. And without our consciousness, there is no truth.

Many of us are confused about our consciousness. We frequently forget that our consciousness exists in our minds. It's not something separate from our beliefs and values; it is our beliefs and values.

Meanwhile, many of us believe in the existence of a universal truth. We cannot accept that our consciousness is all that we have to live our lives. So we believe that a greater consciousness exists outside of us that is holding everything together. And we define this consciousness as God, the Creator, Allah, and by many other names.

Many of us even tell ourselves and others that we have established personal relationships with this consciousness. We talk about voices talking to us, visions, and so forth to validate our claims of having a personal relationship. And most of us accept these pronouncements from others, as well as from ourselves, as being universal truths.

Most of our lives are spent trying to mesh our own interpretations of the truth with this universal truth, which we know very little about. In our quest to make our truths congruent, we  have forgotten how the beliefs originated in the first place; from our beliefs and values.

Nevertheless, without becoming deeply involved in philosophical propositions, most of us understand that the real truth exists without our beliefs and values. It is what is without human distortions. Some describe this as forms existing without interpretation.

The truth about who we are exists only in the beliefs we have embodied as true expressions of ourselves and the world. For example, we identify with race, gender, religion, class, and so forth, and this identification determines the truth about who we are, and how we interpret the outside world.

Today, as we seek to understand our purposes, we search for this truth with the same beliefs and values that's concealing it from us. We have forgotten that the search for the truth is an inward one. The clarity we seek exists in our minds.

Similarly, the more we search outside of our minds for this universal truth, the more we condemn ourselves for not finding it. It's important for us to remember that all the great ones we have read about told us to look for this glorious  power within our minds. And that it cannot be found in another person.

The more we embrace negative perceptions of the truth about our power, the more we succumb to the distortions that we believe represent the truth.

Unfortunately, many of our beliefs and values are nothing more than make-believe things we accept as truths. We don't  personally know any of the people we have been taught or know anything about their accomplishments. We accept what we have been taught as true and build from this point.

In other words, we accept what we have been taught about others' historical accomplishments like we accept mathematical axioms. We assume they have already been investigated and proven to be valid or true. Unfortunately, people and their accomplishments are not as easily verifiable as axioms.

The inward search for the truth begins with understanding our powers of mind. This means our understanding of the power we have to search for universal truths within our minds. We have powers in our minds to create new definitions about race, gender, religion, class and so forth.

To understand our powers of mind, we must be willing to free our minds to travel beyond our current beliefs and values. And to know we don't have to rely on yesterday to determine what we can do today.

Many of us have been taught to use prayer and meditation to still the mind and clear away the distortions concealing our powers. However, some of us forget that when we pray and meditate, we are working on our minds. We are communicating with our unconditioned consciousness to assist us with claiming the power we were born with.

Some of us find it's too  difficult to accept that all powers exist in our minds. We want it to exist outside of us. So we continue to search for others to give us the enlightenment we already have within our minds.

As the great ones told us thousands of years ago, The Kingdom of Heaven is within the mind. And before that, another enlightened one told us the truth to free the mind from suffering is within the mind itself. And whether we believe it or not, it is the only truth we will ever know.

Whenever we reach the clarity of mind to stop devaluing  or condemning ourselves, we will clearly know that the truth exists only in our minds.

And when we accept that all power comes to us from our mind, we will have discovered the glorious truth we have read about others possessing.