TRUTH

Lately I’ve been thinking about the notion of understanding with your heart and not your mind. It is akin to the phrase “you see but did not notice”.

It has become more and more apparent to me that most people, myself included, spout these new age /spiritual wisdom without true understanding and not really living out these wisdom. We speak of it as if we live and breathe it. But alas, for the most part and much to my dismay, we understand it with our heads but not with our hearts. We preach and can give all the right reasons why it works but somehow failing miserably to live it.

Perhaps we are so desperate to be in the elite league of ‘enlightened beings’.

But it could be an honest mistake on our part, and truly believing that we not only understood the essence of these wisdom but are actually living them out. Alas, we, as always, are not fully aware of our own actions and failings.

I cringe whenever I think about those times when I dispense and spout wisdom I knew nothing about (which I vigorously thought I did). I’m equally amused and sometimes saddened and irritated by people who speak these truths and acted holier than thou but does exactly the opposite and gives out advice that were totally inappropriate.

I guess this is the learning journey as we acquaint ourselves with these wisdom, to experience and practice it in the real world (as opposed to just ideas in our heads) and approximate our actions and understanding, albeit so slowly, to real understanding both with our hearts and minds.

Free advice is cheap and no one wants to hear it. How true!!!! Nowadays, I have learnt to restraint myself from giving advice at the slightest opportunity available unless someone actually ask for it. I’m more modest about sharing my “knowledge” and dispense advice with extreme caution. I have seen people taking and believing in advice that were totally unsuitable for them with tragic consequences. There is nothing wrong with the advice per say, just wrong for that person.

There are TRUTHS and there are TRUTHS. We all have to find our TRUTHS. Others just serve as a model for us to emulate but not to copy wholesale.

So I will go forth finding my TRUTHS and be so very careful to impose and preach my TRUTHS. I also want to spend my energy living out my truths rather than spending it preaching and converting others to my truths. They have to find their truths.

TRUTH…… here I come!