Truth and Perceived Truth

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Obviously "truth" is meaningless to some people. They would rather blame someone, some thing, some time or some place: anything other than themselves. I have been the recipient of this all my life. And there is nothing I can do about it
but live my life "to the best of my ability." 

Dear God please show me The Way.

TRUTH

"I agree with you about truths and perceived truths, just like with our estrangements.  Everyone experiences things in their own way, and then their perceptions and misconceptions become their reality. And that's why it's so hard for any resolutions or reconciliations to occur (especially long term) and especially without professional help, courts of law, etc.

P.M. / K.A. 

"positive reassurances aren't so helpful, if they are part of mixed messages."

Truth and Perceived Truth

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Obviously "truth" is meaningless to some people. They would rather blame someone, something, some time or some place: anything other than themselves. I have been the recipient of this all my life. And there is nothing I can do about it
but live my life "to the best of my ability." 

Dear God please show me The Way.

TRUTH

"I agree with you about truths and perceived truths, just like with our estrangements.  Everyone experiences things in their own way, and then their perceptions and misconceptions become their reality. And that's why it's so hard for any resolutions or reconciliations to occur (especially long term) and especially without professional help, courts of law, etc.

P.M. / K.A. 

"positive reassurances aren't so helpful, if they are part of mixed messages."

Grace

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Through your Grace
I have found a treasure within myself.

I have found the Truth of the Unseen World.

~ Rumi ♥
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Truth

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Truth may walk through the world unarmed.
Bedouin Proverb

I have always felt this way and now see it put so well, and so simply, in words. Gracias = Grace.

Evolution & Truth

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According to his evolution, man knows truth.

Bowl of Saki, March 29, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Every person's desire is according to his evolution. That for which he is ready is desirable for him. Milk is a desirable food for the infant, other foods for the grown-up person. Every stage in life has its own appropriate and desirable things.

   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VII/VII_30.htm


When one realizes the ultimate truth, one comes to understand that one single underlying current to which all the different religions, philosophies and faiths are attached. These are all only different expressions of the same truth, and it is the absence of that knowledge which causes all to be divided into so many different sects and religions.

Earthly Knowledge & Truth

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All earthly knowledge is as

a cloud covering the sun.

Bowl of Saki, March 23, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

 

Truth is the very self of man.

Truth is the divine element in man.

Truth is every soul's seeking.  

Therefore as soon as the clouds of illusion are scattered, that which man now begins to see is nothing but the truth which has been there all the time. He finds that the truth was never absent; it was only covered by clouds of illusion.

   ~~~ "Supplementary papers, Philosophy V", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)

Man brings unhappiness upon himself by holding in his hands the clouds of bad impressions, which fall as a shadow upon his soul. Once a person is able to clear from his mind, by whatever process, the undesirable impressions, a new power begins to spring from his heart. This opens a way before him to accomplish all he wishes, attracting to him all he requires, clearing his path of all obstacles, and making his atmosphere clear, for him to live and move and to accomplish all he wishes to accomplish.

   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XIII/XIII_17.htm

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Knowledge

For the life of me, I do not know what this means! Enlighten me please!

It is more important to know the truth about one's self

than to try to find out the truth of heaven and hell.

                         

Bowl of Saki, March 9, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
It is more important to find out the truth about oneself than to find out the truth about heaven and hell, or about many other things which are of less importance and are apart from oneself. However, every man's pursuit is according to his state of evolution, and so each soul is in pursuit of something but he does not know where it leads him. 

The first sign of realization is tolerance towards others. There are the words of Christ: 'In the house of my father are many mansions' and those of the Prophet: 'Each soul has its own religion' This means that according to his evolution so man knows the truth and the more a man knows, the more he finds there is to learn.

   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VIII/VIII_2_7.htm

God is Truth, and Truth is God.

What difference does "truth" make when I am punished for speaking mine?

God is truth, and truth is God.

                       

 Bowl of Saki, March 14, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

Many intellectual people, with their various ideas, differ from one another in their opinions and in their way of looking at things, in their speculations, but do the prophets differ from one another? No, they cannot differ. The reason is that it is the various minds which differ, not the souls. The one who lives in his mind, is conscious of his mind; the one who lives in his soul is conscious of the soul. ... 

When a person is living in his mind, he is living through the darkness of the night. The moment he rises above his mind and awakens in the light of the soul he becomes spiritual. And if a thousand spiritual people speak, they will say the same thing, perhaps in different words but with only one meaning, for they have one and the same vision.

This is why spiritual realization is called the truth. There are many facts but only one truth. The facts can be put into words but not the truth, for God is truth, the soul is truth, the real self of man is truth.

   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/IX/IX_29.htm

The Symbol of the Cross ~ excerpt

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The cross is the symbol of manifestation.

THE CROSS which is usually taken as the symbol of the cross on which Christ died has many mystical meanings. It shows a vertical line and a horizontal line: everything that exists extends vertically and horizontally. This may be seen in the leaf: it has length and breadth. All that exists has come from these two lines, the vertical and the horizontal. The cross therefore, in its first meaning, is the symbol of manifestation.

Then, whenever someone begins to speak, to act for the truth, his way is barred, there is a cross against it. Speak the truth before the nation and there comes the cross, the bar from the nation. Speak the truth in the face of the world and the cross comes from the world against you.

More: http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XIV/XIV_2_22.htm