Interlude

What does 'to lose one's truth' mean to you? 

Does it signify that one has lost touch with a sense of purpose and/or direction in life; that a reason for being seems unclear?

That an experience of life has lost its potency, its vibrancy, its regenerative capacity and become akin to an attitude or a disposition of ‘whatever!’?

Can one ever know truth through an experience of life or does one catch a glimpse of truth and seek to own or relive it by way of representations or forms which appear to be true in any moment?

Is there a relationship between truth and freedom? What happens if one substitutes the word ‘freedom’ for ‘truth' in the previous questions?

Is there a greater emotional component to one perspective than another? Can truth or freedom be subjective or intellectual?

Can truth or freedom be an actual tangible quality or is it representative of a process and thereby utilitarian or instrumental?

How much does one’s willingness to be honest and clear about intentions influence one’s perception of truth or freedom?

Is authenticity the same as truth or freedom?

If ‘one can only know what one knows’ in any moment, is it even possible to ‘lose one’s truth’? 

Does one surrender the will to exist as an autonomous, self-determining individual through the need to belong and the desire to be viewed as ‘correct’?

What influence can pride and indeed shaming have on one’s ability to determine one’s own path?

It has been said that ‘pride cometh before a fall’, is hubris the origin of our stories and perceptions of the presence of an adversary? 

But what comes before pride - is it pain? 

Is pain an attendant of what it means to be ‘in proximity to the veil’ – of where truth resides in its concealment?

Does compassion gaze into the eyes of angst and does sorrow know its nature as it alights upon the face of its Beloved?

Illumination is present in this veil, of where the creator is co-twined with the created, of where Being and Becoming are one

For where else would it be possible to know for certain 'one's truth'?

It is not the ground or distance covered so much as an inclination which opens a doorway to revealing

To ‘Be still and know that I Am’ is not a request to listen and to be attentive to life for clarity, to gain something more for oneself through that act

It is an invitation to enter into the unknown and to be willing to ‘surrender all one’s worldly goods’, to give up one’s life in effect

For in that moment is death revealed as illusion even as all else that is seen falls away

Revelation is a threshold which is perceived as the greatest terror for a human and is also life’s greatest joy