It came about after a prolonged period of meditation, having the same image come up in my mind's eye over and over - A Closed Door in the middle of a giant hall. Someone said write about it and I did; hence this poetry and the concept, then 175 Missing Pieces and all the rest of the books on recovery and now workshops and seminars on spiritual recovery. Neil
Friday, April 16, 2010
Statement of Truth ... One of Life's Little Secrets
Statement of Truth
A Truth Once Gained Is The Loss Of Innocence.
Self-inflicted denial and delusion are like old, warm, woolly sweaters that we wear to protect us from the cold, harsh, hostile world we live in. When truth is revealed, those old familiar sweaters can never properly fit over our souls as they once did.
The innocence of our childlike ignorance is lost the moment we come to understand that we do not rule the universe or any of its inhabitants, no matter how hard we might try.
Much of the human condition of suffering hangs on seeing or not seeing this simple truth; for suffering is a state of mind, not a condition of existence.
To begin a soul-searching journey is to begin to take our rightful place in this universe. There are requirements though, one of which is that we must come to terms with this simple truth or forever be bonded to a hell of our own making.
Freedom from the bonds of our past is freedom from the bonds of our own way of thinking. Thus, freedom from the prison of our own mind is freedom from the process of resistance, from a demon called against.
The walls of the prison of our own mind, and all the processes contained therein, are always made up of us against something.
Our very survival seems to be at stake.
But
Experience Has Taught Me
As I Give Over My Need to be Against, My Need to Hide, Then I Will Naturally Merge with All That Is…
The Way Of Things…
NDT: Extracted from Experience Has Taught Us --- 175 Missing Pieces ... Bright Star Press ... available on Amazon.com
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