Discovering My Inner Truth
When there is no where else to go.. the only place you gotta go is inward!.
A'int this true!. (God /Universe/Spirit/Soul) call it whatever! has always been there listening to every thought of mine since I was a child BUT I never acknowledged until now.
A long awaited dream unfolds its wings today and finds its flight. A call to be discovered. A calling that feels stronger with each passing day. This calling has stirred my inner most being and wants to be known and expressed through my words. I feel a deep urgency to bring this journey of profound truth I discovered. A truth resonating with me. Although very few have discovered it too but each soul's journey is unique and subjective. It's not a new found revolutionary truth that I just discovered nonetheless this truth has always been there. Can I call it the universal truth? I don't know!! But this truth is available to all of us however, one must go through a journey and experience it for themselves in order to know it.
AND...This is the truth I discovered "HERE AND NOW" everything is HERE and NOW, everything I want and need is HERE.. It's a very simple truth yet I complicated it by my mind because my mind was not convinced at all. It was not interested in whats here, it's always looking for something to chase and escape. It was mostly fanticizing the future or dwelling in the past.
All my life I thought that happiness, peace, joy, fulfilment, love, relationship, money and you name it! is far away in the future and I needed to achieve it. I have grown up hearing that if you want something you have to chase it. I thought there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and I need to reach there. But the strange thing is even after I found the pot of gold I still felt like I have missed something...Well I didn't stop and paused with that, I went on...and bypassed the present moment and kept on chasing until I reached a point where the more I chased the more unhappy I was.. In the coming chapters I will share how I reached this realisation but I wanna say.. realising that everything exists in the present moment is a profound shift in perception. My awareness ended all my illusions and dellusions. I awakened to the truth that the past is gone, and the future is yet to unfold and the future is never ever gonna be the way I want! Huh! that was a huge one coz I loved fanticizing the future! I was ALWAYS in the past or the future—little did I realise what truly existed is here and now. This realisation striped away the constant noise of regret over what was and the anxiety about what might be. In the present moment, there is a clarity that doesn’t require effort to grasp coz it simply is. When I became fully aware of this truth(ie this present moment), I began to see that all the experiences, the lessons, and the wisdom I seeked was already within me. The future is born from the now, and the past is merely a reflection of how I once understood the present.
In this moment, I can feel my breath and notice the subtle beauty in the world around me which I never cared to do - like the warm light from sun, the beauty of that full moon night, my kids growing right in front of me, their childhood, the presence of my husband, the things that often go unnoticed in the rush of daily life. There’s peace in knowing that I don’t have to chase happiness or purpose because they are both already RIGHT HERE IN THE NOW waiting for me to embrace them.
This shift allowed me to fully engage with life as it is, rather than how I wished it to be or how it once was. In the present, I am free from the weight of "what's next," and I realised that all the growth, the healing, and the transformation I seek can only occur when I stop looking elsewhere and instead settle into the deep stillness of the present moment. Like Eckhart says.. there's always a stillness behind everything if only you are aware.
It is in this moment that I find everything I need to live a life of true fulfilment and meaning. When I recognise that everything exists now, I open myself to the beauty and richness of life, unburdened by my past or my future. And in doing so, I align with the flow of life as it is meant to be.
Like to end with this quote-
"When you lose touch with inner stillness,
You lose touch with yourself
When you lose touch with yourself,
You lose yourself in the world."
-By Eckhart Tolle.
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