Consciousness moves towards illusion to wake it up

Consciousness moves towards illusion, towards what doesn't know itself,  to wake it up. Ego tries to get away from it or get rid of it. The more consciousness moves itself towards illusion, and illusion is seen through, the more it dissipates. Our stories play out again and again until all is seen through. A love of truth wants to see through illusion and says yes to its invitation as it knocks on our door.

This repeated playing out of the story can feel especially maddening  to those of us who have seen through illusion and no longer believe their stories. We might otherwise be able to avoid this in solitude on a mountaintop or in a cave, as some have in other cultures and times.  But relationship with life invites ever-deepening and integrated embodiment of truth. This repeating pattern showing up (and our finding whatever is here as something maddening, anomalous, or insufficient),  is not our devolution, shame or pathology, it is an invitation for greater embrace from the movement of consciousness; from truth and the freedom of our true nature moving to realize itself. Our Love of Truth; our love of what is; Truth's love for itself; is the fire burning through each layer, leaving disillusionment, leaving nothing at the core but emptiness, our true nature, This.