Truth helps us cast a different image of our internal power.

Truth is very important to self. Truth is the first lesson of discovering self and the poetry of life. This is why I published Discovering Self: The Poetry of Life.  If we cannot live truth, we have not yet entered the level of Spiritual image that all humans search for and that sustains us as the joy of living the journey of life. We cannot grow if we cannot learn to live the equality and truth of our Soul and Spirit energy. Truth helps us cast a different image of our internal power. I have been teaching this for a long while and my goal always is to see the growth of my students as they learn to discover the beauty of self. As we discover self and love ourself, we discover the value of truth in the world around us, including other people. It is my joy to be able to see the growth of other people, just as it is to live my own growth and change every day.

            One familiar idea we have in our world is that “there are no original ideas.” Yet life has changed very dramatically over time for each and every one of us. In our own mind we can go back into our previous lives and deal with our previous ideas. This is very good, because it helps us to create a new reality. When we try to “cash in” on other people’s concepts, ideas, or intended growth, we interfere with our own growth. Knowledge is essential for growth.

            I used to see this in grade school. I could see the ones who copied and those who didn’t. It was a different focus of preparing your homework and of learning. Ours was a rural school. There were nine different groups and the teacher divided them into rows. We could always listen to others as they tried to learn. People who do not understand their own power are the ones who lie, cheat, and steal, and this behavior is focused primarily on ideas rather than physical things. The “right and wrong” and strength of our character shows up in our behavior. I learned early on, taught by my parents too, that I wanted to learn my way. At that time there wasn’t the same support at school and the multiple tools for different levels of learning. What was taught was basically the belief of the teacher.

            Before I started school, my parents were always teaching us. They showed us the difference in learning lies and learning truth. They gave us examples. You have to learn your own way. In our one-room schoolhouse copying was fairly common. This “sat on my soul,” really bothered me, then as it does now. Even then I questioned, how are they going to learn anything?

            My parents encouraged me to talk about it, and they helped me to understand it. I felt very angry at a girl in my class who was copying my schoolwork. My father talked to the teacher and gave her a way, a process, to tell how to know what was truth for one student or another. He would watch and question the student. He probably learned this method when he was in the military.

            We have a lot of information in our mind. If information is “new” to us, we can believe it is original to us. What matters is what we know about ourselves, our exposure to knowledge, and how we handle it. A lot of people don’t think much about the stories they tell. They tell a story as a fairy tale but identify it as knowledge, or truth. When we are taught the wrong knowledge, it interferes with all of life, including our future lives

            If we’re living a life in which we lie, cheat, and steal, we don’t understand what we’re doing. These lessons will stay in our reality until they’re learned. We have to learn truth and live truth.

            We do have a lot of ideas that others have already learned in their own history of growth, but we also have ideas that are open to other interpretations. The mind loves creating and the mind resents lying, which has a huge impact on how we think and live. Lying to ourself is the most dramatic part of lying because it shows us we don’t know what is true within our own mind. Not understanding truth interferes with our life until death. This is one of the reasons that “life until death” concept is so prevalent in our world. We have to learn to please ourself first. If we don’t know love, we don’t understand our own responsibility to learn. We’re always dealing with the challenges we create(d). This is why it is important to discover self and the poetry of life.

            Talking to someone who hasn’t discovered self becomes a burden. The language itself becomes a burden because we are always struggling to present what is in our mind in the right way. We are always trying to present knowledge to our own mind. This is why knowledge is critical for our own growth.

            The secret is many times liars don’t usually recognize they are lying, even if others recognize the lies. When we recognize that someone is lying, we feel uncomfortable. People who are talking to someone who is lying may not recognize why they feel uncomfortable. This is why we do not need to run from our feelings; we need to learn from them. This is how we discover self. When something is uncomfortable for us, there is a reason. We have to look at our own soul. We may have a belief that is not truth which we do not want to acknowledge to ourself or to others. Lying can dissipate friendships and deny other connections between people, because we are denying our soul and spirit and therefore the internal power of love within us and within others as part of our inherent Spiritual design of Ethical Values. That is our evolving consciousness.

Discovering Self: The Poetry of Life -My new book is now available!

 

 I am happy to say my new book (my 12th!) is finished! For me, this is a great way to finish the year and to begin the new year with "a new ream of paper."

     Love is the most vital lesson we are created to learn as human beings. Seeking to learn is a behavior of love, which begins with discovering self. I learn every day that I live. Learning helps us to accept more of the challenges in our life with a smile. I marvel when I listen to people who have not been taught, or have not yet learned, that life is for learning, and that learning is a joy to our soul and spirit. I have spent my life engaged in the gift of learning what it means to be human, and there is no end in sight. There is always more for us to learn, and sharing the truth of what we learn begins with us. We can only teach or share knowledge that we have learned and lived.

     We live in order to learn to love. The trinity of love--living, learning, and loving--is the dance of our internal self (our mind, emotions, and senses). The image of love is the image of discovering self, which makes it the first image we are designed to seek as human beings. Discovering love makes us happy to be alive, which inspires learning. We have to discover self as we discover love before we can understand self and life. Discovering Self: The Poetry of Life is my way of sharing an image of my own exploration and understanding of life and its poetry. I love poetry that shows us the challenge of our own existence. The introduction to our own growth and self-discovery is understanding poetry. Poetry guides us through the physical drama of living to expand into the beauty of life. The poetry of life is the truth of healing for our soul, which is the joy of our spirit.

Love is the truth of us. Learning is an expansion of self.

     I hope that we each discover new depths of our true self as we open our minds and hearts to learning to love more truthfully, more beautifully, in 2016. I hope you will read my new book, and remember I welcome readers' feedback! To purchase Discovering Self, click the Lulu link below.

 Happy holidays and let's make 2016 a great year to be on Earth.

Our Journey Into Love

Many people think they are living the truth while they are lying, cheating, and stealing. We don’t see learning to live truth as a lesson. And we don’t see the other aspects – lying, cheating, and stealing – as lessons. These are patterns of acting out rebellion within the soul. Some people don’t seem to know there is such a concept as truth. Truth for our soul is a truth we have to learn and live through our physical experience.

There are all levels of truth. But truth lives within us, not totally external to us. How do we choose what we want to learn? We of course choose it with soul influence, but we also choose it with the influence of our heart, the emotional self. It behooves each and every one of us to learn about and to live our emotional self.

As human beings we are designed with three distinct parts: our mental and emotional self, physical self, and sensory self. These three parts of us reflect into the world the particular thoughts, behaviors, and actions of who we are. No one can escape the patterns they create and reflect to the world without their own intention being used.

Our life is designed through love. If we do not understand the love within, how can we reflect the love within externally to us? If everyone lived their love, we would erase most of the problems we create and encounter as human beings on Earth.

The emotional self is in reality the foundation of us as human beings.  We have a tendency to think that we are physical and nothing else, but of course that is not true. We are first of all energy, and part of our energy is our emotional soul. If we do not understand this pattern, we will abuse it and attempt to destroy it within our mind. It is as though we were using a cleaning system on the mind to take away the good and reinforce the bad.  If we want to be human we must first be human in our understanding and conduct (Ethical Values). If we do not understand ourselves as a soul, a spirit, and a physical being, obviously we are denying and not using vital parts of our design.

Learning to live within our entire design helps us to be more human, more conscious, and it helps us to design our life in a happy and healthy way. We must understand ourself if we want to learn and live the journey into love.