Truth is tricky stuff. So often we mistake our opinions for truth, mistake fear for truth, mistake over-told slogans for truth, mistake old beliefs for truth. These mistakes can get us all into big trouble; we are misguided by voices of scarcity in the name of truth, and we start wars over it inside and outside of ourselves.
In a talk I gave recently, we explored the singular truth that lives inside of each of us. Your truth of the moment, the kind that leads you into yourself, into the place where all possibility and all wisdom becomes available.
To break it down, we engaged in a simple practice of inquiry and asked:
What is true right now?
How is that enough?
I still feel surprised by how deep it took us so quickly. Just asking the question “how is that enough?” invites us into the territory where enough lives. Our truth drops us into the present moment since personal truth is always happening NOW and only now. Truth told later hardens into opinion and story, gets solid and maybe even reified. Truth now gives us room to move and room to just BE. The truth that is your deepest knowing – or even simplest reflection – not cognitive thought, but real knowing from within, resides within us always, waiting for us to get quiet enough and curious enough to hear its voice and to be willing to listen.
What is so great is that we don’t have to DO much. This work of deep listening and truth telling is about BEING – being open, being willing, being receptive, being honest, being courageous in the here and now.