The one thing I know for sure.
Nobody has the world figured out. It’s the one thing we all share in common, yet it’s the one thing that keeps us all divided. It’s humbling really, to accept that you cannot possibly comprehend how this universe works… or WHY it works or your place in it. The one thing that I do know is that we are together in this mystery. We may have clues as to how we got here, but no one knows why or even if there is a reason why we are here.
You can claim that you know, but sadly, you don’t. This isn’t to say that truth doesn’t exist. This is only to say that it is arrogant to think that our tiny brains can even comprehend the universe, let alone the rules of the universe. We just don’t know.
Truth does exist and it does exists in each one of us. It’s called our conscience or rather our consciousness. Consciousness is what creates emotion and emotions are true because we experience them. We feel them, they shape our reality and our behavior. They don’t have to shape our behavior, that comes from choice, but they are real and a product of our reality. Choice. It’s the one thing we humans share in common. The ability to choose and the inevitability that the choices we make will affect those around us.
So why not be careful with that? Why not think about that? You always have a choice and those choices become truth in how they affect the hearts of those people around you. What if we all thought that way? What if everything you did was a CREATION rather than a REACTION. Just move the C. Everyday, we create truth just by being and interacting and doing things that move people. In this way, we make our meaning. We have control over our collective experience, the key is to realize that.
Religion in today’s world is used to divide rather than to unite. It’s become this way because it’s become based on fear and arrogance. You’re told something is true, you’re told if you don’t believe there will be consequences, you believe that anyone who believes differently than you is wrong. Fear and arrogance. You fear therefore you become arrogant to cover your fear.
What are we really afraid of? I think we’re afraid that we don’t and cannot know things for sure, so we prescribe ourselves a standard by which to measure everything. This can be bad, especially when judgment is involved. Judgment leads to division leads to conflict leads to reaction trumping creation.
So why react? Why be afraid? We’re all in the same boat, we’ve all got the same questions. Why act like we have all the answers when it’s so much more fun to discover them? Why put a ceiling on what we can learn? Why put limitations on how we can experience, interact with and affect one another? Why compartmentalize everything and everyone when we’re already in the same compartment? We’re like fish in a pond. We know there’s something outside the water, but we could never imagine the enormity of what it is. All we have is our pond and each other in this moment, right now. We make our own truth, we make our own meaning every second of every day. It’s how we evolve. We learn from the past and we act in the now to shape a better future. If we think we’ve got it all figured out, then there’s no reason to improve or to learn or to evolve. If the story has already been told, then what are we doing here? Nothing? No, we’re doing something. That’s why the only thing that I know for sure is nothing at all.
