Truth is only discovered in the moment.
There is no truth that can be carried over
to the next moment, the next day, the next year.
Memory never contains truth, only what is past, dead, gone.

Truth comes into the non-seeking mind fresh and alive.
It is not something you can carry with you, accumulate, or hold onto.

Truth leaps into view when the mind is quiet, not asserting itself.
You cannot contain or domesticate truth, for if you do, it dies instantly.

Truth prowls the unknown waiting for a gap in the mind's activity.
When that gap is there, the truth leaps out of the unknown into the known.

Instantly you comprehend it and sense its sacredness.
The timeless has broken through like a flash of lightning
and illuminated the moment with its presence.

Truth comes to an innocent mind as a blessing and a sacrament.
Truth is a holy thing because it liberates thought from itself
and illumines the human heart from the inside out.

- Adyashanti

as long as there are people keeping score
as long as there are people judging
there will always be what sees fools
and i will always be at the top of their list  

when there are no longer scores and judgments
and the fears that hold their fictions and the identities that need them in place  
there is just this  
the divine experiencing itself;
coming to know itself through all conditions
unconditionally  

relax mom  

if i thought the way you did
i would blow my brains out
my life would be a waste
it would be "ruined", as you say,
i would have lost the game
there would be no point to continue on  

last night i dreamed that everything was stolen from me
all of my antiques and art work and things i have in storage now
gone
even all of my clothes and underwear
it was upsetting but much as i feel in waking life
as look at things missed as they disappear
or when grace affords me the gift of disillusionment
it is the way the cards play out
it is the deck i am being given
"and we begin again now"  

it's time again,
a little sooner than i thought it would be,
to buy new underwear
as it will be time to trust this heart again
as i can only do
when it swallows the moon
singing the sun and all the stars
once again  

relax mom
and call me a fool
if you want
that too is the deck i am being dealt  

let's play  

love,   ellen

Truth sees itself - and it sees itself everywhere and acting through everything. That is why in one moment, we can be seeing the inevitability of Realization at all levels, and in another we are that voice saying, "No, don't go there."