This undefined fear of Truth

"This Truth is within us and thus readily available to us. The hard part is how we do this while the rest of the world is totally inhospitable to this point of view." This very inspiring statement of yours, Chuck, points us towards another observation: our deep rooted ambivalence in relation to Truth.

The collective inhospitability of the world is just a reflexion or projection of our own inhospitability towards the Truth. Yes, we are longing to meet the Truth, to be aware of the Truth because we have been created by Truth. This is our very essence. But what happens when Truth pops in front of us by surprise in ways that we don't expect and don't want to expect?

We are dealing with authenticity. Awareness of Truth is what drives us to be authentic persons. But, in the relative world, authenticity is the result (and the cause) of the undoing of the guilt and fear in our mind.

And why do we fear the Truth at the same time as we are longing for It? Why do we paint God as very far away, why do we fashion an illusion of God as we fashion an illusion of ourself? Deep down below the guilt and fear, lies the idea of SACRIFICE. To let go of our illusions, to leave the past and the future behind, to leave our memories behind, to leave the loved ones behind seem a price to pay to endorse Truth. We unconsciously expect sacrifice demanded of us by God. That is enough to make us fear and stay away from Truth. Even giving up the personal self seems, in many unexpected ways, a sacrifice: living in poverty, giving up desires, relationships, making apparently "against nature" choices…

Is it the price to pay to access Peace and Truth? That is what ego says. And ego will never stop whispering us this idea. But we can let go of our believing in it. What do all the desires and pleasures and quests of the world bring us, after all, if not conflicts and loss of peace? What are we sacrificing? We are sacrificing conflict for peace.

Only our attachment to our personal desires paints God as very far away, fashions an illusion of God as we fashion an illusion of ourself. Only when we recognize deeply in our mind and our heart that peace and Truth is more valuable than conflict and illusion, will we be daring enough to say, like Christ: "I am God".

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