Okay me, listen up:
Keep digging for the truth. You’ll know you’ve found it when you’re completely at peace.
If you’re not at peace, you‘re not dealing with the truth. Keep digging.
Why do I seek the truth? I notice it’s to bring myself peace. Because I think that when I know the truth I’ll be able to use it to bring myself peace.
That is absolutely true, but I used to think that “knowing the truth” meant knowing about all the things that could cause me pain, suffering, fear or frustration. I thought that if I could identify every one of them, I could avoid them all, and that’s how I would find peace. I had it backwards.
When I identify pain, suffering, fear or frustration, that’s what I’m bringing into my life. And whatever I bring into my life becomes my world. But here’s the thing: If it brings me pain, suffering, fear, frustration, it is NOT the truth.
I can keep digging. If I am open to the Truth, I will find it. And then I will know peace.
Because, in the benevolent universe, whatever is true is peaceful and whatever is peaceful is true.