ABSOLUTE TRUTH

© 2011 Howard McQueen

We are unable to speak or write what is ultimately true.

And yet, words and actions can convey us, inwardly,

 so we may experience close encounters with our source.

Our rational mind,

 when drawn into the many sensations of separation,

 constructs and replays all the many stories of our vulnerability.

Lacking a culture that supports the telling and interpreting

 of these often harrowing stories,

 we forget that each of us have an invitation

 to experience the sacred rites of initiation.

It is in our willingness to remember and relearn how to create the safe place,

 often found in the group relationship space of community,

 where we can again become naked

 and share these stories of our experiences ,

 that stripped us of our innocence.

We as a culture are remembering the modalities

 that are pointing us to the sacred rites of passage.

We are beginning to break sweat and release ourselves from all the fevers,

 all the obsessive-compulsive distractions with technology, consumerism, our vanities   

 and all our attempts to create securities. 

What we are left with, which is all we ever began with,

 is the ability to connect and communicate.

We need but rekindle our desire to reconnect,

 encourage ourselves to deeply listen,

 then deeply and honestly feel our emotions,

 and share whatever has covered over our purity and innocence.

This is the common, everyday therapy that restores our health and vitality

 and brings light, trust and respect for safety

 back into our external experience with the world.

There are a corresponding set of therapies that we each can practice, inwardly,

 to set your own self straight. 

All we need do is practice, practice and begin to gain a mastery of relating, honestly,

 to this growing awareness we call ourself.

Everything external will take care of itself,

 if we do this for ourselves.