Finding the Truth

I honor the place in You in which the entire universe dwells
I honor the place in You which is of love, of truth, of light, and of peace.
When You are in that place in You and I am in that place in Me, We are one.

I often find myself inspired to take one pathway only to end up somewhere I had not anticipated landing. This very journey has played out this morning as I toyed over this month’s newsletter.

I asked spirit what the subject of this month’s newsletter would be. Spirit have over this past year taken over my monthly correspondence exposing me to new information through their loving guidance. But this month all that came to me was to write about “Bach Flower Remedies.” My mother used these essences on anyone and everyone, including our cat. So, I dutifully took down the two books I had from the shelf, one belonging to my mother and the other I found at a book sale, and hoped that by flicking through them something would come to mind. Nothing did!

A thought crossed my mind though - maybe my mother had some information in her diaries. I ploughed through her notes and immediately came across a page she wrote of how she met my father. They had grown up in the same seaside town on the east coast of England and met during their teenage years at a dance held at the end of the pier. He had apparently taken her once for a “pie supper,” obviously an occasion to be remembered, but the war sent them separate ways. My father joined the Royal Air-force and my mother went into the Women’s Royal Naval Services. A few years passed and in 1944 my mother arrived in Ceylon as a coder for Lord Louis Mountbatten. She and her friend Joyce were invited to a party and were excited to embark on their first adventure in a rickshaw. They were laughed and shouted enjoying this new experience as they passed a large house set back from the road. Someone coming through the gates of the house shouted, “Louise!” It was my father. In her words she said, “and there was Harry with the most amazed look on his face just as if I had dropped from the heavens!” He had just arrived in Ceylon on a rest period from Burma. The story reminded me that there is always a perfect plan.

So, I am still trying to find some help with Bach Flower Remedies and the story made me want to listen to some of mum’s tapes. I found one called “Yoga of the Christ,” my mother was a yogini and taped some of her lessons. When I was a child she would teach me yogi philosophies, it would go in one ear and out of the other most of the time. On this one tape about meditation I found something interesting, that Jesus had said, “When you pray believe you have received,” everything is now! I already knew this was the secret to manifestation but there was a little more for me to learn with respect to being in the now through meditation.

I am often telling people that the truth lies within the heart. But on this tape I learned that what most people think of as truth is merely a projection of the mind. The mind is made up of your conditioning, which is always seeking expression in thought now. To know yourself you must be aware of your thinking, now. Then there will not be a yesterday or a tomorrow, for when the mind ceases to chatter reality is, and reality is ever present now. Truth can only be revealed from within and not from without, memory cannot reveal that which is beyond it. The mind can never reveal the truth. To reveal the truth the mind must be still.

True meditation means a mind that is capable of being elastic, extensively aware, and limitless. It is a self-revealing process, to know yourself is to know all the content of the mind, both the conscious and unconscious. Meditation without self-knowledge has no meaning. In order to know ourselves we need time and yet time is a product of the mind. Truth is not a matter of time. Memory and thought is a product of time. The self is a product of the memory and the idea of the higher and lower selves is a product of the mind. True meditation uncovers the whole process of thought, which is memory.

So, I meditated on this information and found that by going inside of myself I am the Bach Flower Remedies, that I have no need for books, everything I need to know, all truth, is within, provided my mind is still. Going within means becoming one with everything within me. Each cell within me vibrates with each cell within you. Each cell within you vibrates with each cell within the universe. We are not separate we are one. By going within myself, by going into my truth, I see that my mother’s experience in Ceylon was also mine. There is no me! I am a product of my memories, of my experiences. When I go within your experiences are mine.

Finally, we come to the round-a-bout way of getting to the theme. I am being told that it is the mind that has created it this way and not spirit. That if I had just sat for a short while and calmed the mind I would have discovered the message. But then I knew that already didn’t I!!!

So what is the message for you? To meditate, to calm the mind, to come back to your center and find the truth of who you are. To connect to all those around you through your truth. To find the part of you that is within them and the part of them that is within you.