Satya

September 26, 2012 — #Caroline Myss #Archetype# wholeness, Inner Castles, Teresa of Avila, truth

ST Teresa of Avila

Truth and the relationship one has with it are both elements of  discernment. Each person has a reality that is colored by the limits placed on observation. I have noticed that Americans have been trending toward believing what can be seen has value, whereas what is invisible has no merit or value.  When presented with a choice of money or wisdom it would be very common for most to choose money as a solution to any problem.  If we only consider short term solutions, money does come in handy.  If we look at how the problem to be solved now has arisen we often find there has been misuse of finances.  If no new wisdom arrives with new funding, this problem will very likely to expand to the extent that the new funding allows.

Some of you are naturally thinking of politics, but that is not my subject today.  Satya, or the truth that is love, exists.  It has no need to be believed in order to continue being true.  The details, and the attention given to the infinitesimal either hide or make clear what is true.  You are a detective in your own life.  You not only choose your environment and the people you encounter, but you fill in all the details by focusing on some while ignoring others.  When I loose an object in my office and start to hunt for it I never cease to be amazed by what I find while searching.  The longer it takes me to find the desired object, the more I am able to sort, file, dump, and make clear what is in there all the time. Clearing away the outdated, the insignificant, and the garbage makes a new level of truth exist between my office and me.

St Teresa of Avila was a woman determined to see the divine in the details of life.  Interesting to me is that her focus on every little tiny thing eventually brought her a big fat vision of Interior Castles.  I take this to mean that when and if I finally clear out all the junk in my life I too will see my interior wealth.  I already prize teaching over money, but St. Teresa is hinting at something even more elaborate and permanent.  I am sure that the stern Teresa could never have allowed her office to become such a mess.  She does give hope in her quote, “To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.”  This is very good news.  There may well be castles under all this junk.