Spiritual Truth - What is it ?

Originally Posted by Greenslade

Stephen, I would disagree that we make mistakes when it comes to Paths. You might wander down a particular Path just because you wanted to see where it led, and even if your perspective is that it's the wrong one, is that a mistake? Now you know where you didn't want to be and where you do want to be. That isn't so bad after all, is it?

It appears we're saying much the same thing. :^) If it's a path that proves to be a dead-end in some way, the time invested wasn't wasted, as long we
openly absorb the insight we're exposed to... and then effectively pull-up stakes and move-on. The "mistake" would become pronounced should we remain focused
on a path that no longer moves us. To remain stagnant in relation to belief, just because we already have so much invested, is a pretty poor
way to intrinsically develop ones expanding appreciation of what's possible.

We may for a time find ourselves jumping from island to island in relation to beliefs. While at some point we realize, like I've found, that these islands
have land bridges of perceptive commonality.

This commonality is less about the beliefs themselves, and more about how we tend to externalize our attention in order to synthetically attach ourselves
to the visualizations that emerge from these beliefs.

If this external visualization is all that we do then our connection with self becomes rubbery and unfocused.

And yet if our focus is totally self oriented, then we tend to remove ourselves from the workable structures that others have insightfully uncovered.

So there's a balance that's needed where a dance becomes evident for each of us to playfully explore. We can thus sway back and forth between the two.

A solid connection with your own inner rhythms
and
An honest curiosity of what others are uncovering, with an empathetic respect for both the contrasts and similarities.

This solid connection with oneself will essentially become the constant, (the land bridge, if you will, :^) while the insights of others will drift in
and out of our attentional focus, and stick in their own ways as ones mental DNA finds effective connections.

This process we can thus term as: "epiphanies". Where intuition and
observation, aligns in such a way, that then results in an almost inner-tickle-like unfolding.

A mistaken path will rarely produce these... while an intuitive path will continually be setting these unfolding epiphanies at our doorstep. :^)