Like many in the world at this extraordinary time, I have been asking for guidance. And specifically, what is the “deeper truth” underlying the coronavirus pandemic and what am I to discover with and from this experience? I realized that perhaps we are waking up to the truth that we don’t have all of the answers, nor does it help to think that we do. And that perhaps, more of us are realizing that instead of thinking we are here to know all of the answers, or to believe “someone else” can or should know all of the answers, maybe we are here to “live the question...”
I am thankful to hear even the “so-called experts” honestly admit, “We just don’t know...” Because, until We Are in our Christ Mind with God, the Only True Expert, we just don’t know… And perhaps this is a way to Great Peace… Acceptance of the “unknown.” And, acceptance of the unknown brings Great Peace as our Faith in our Loving God/Creator/Source becomes our Guiding Belief System, free of all “temptation” to fear.
It seems to me, though many think “we or they” know, this may or may not be true. I feel great peace in the acceptance of my not knowing. And a greater peace in realizing I don’t need to know. Perhaps this extraordinary time is helping us become aware of our "collective unknowing" so that then we are willing to look at the unknown with curious eyes, we can learn to rest in the “Greater Unknown...” Perhaps this time is helping us discover the source of real peace. I don’t know... Or maybe I do...
After years of thinking “I knew” things, I experienced the greatest sense of freedom and peace when I finally realized that I didn’t know all that I thought I did. When I realized that there was so much more to know (or to unknow) than I had ever imagined...
And I kept practicing, and I kept trying to trust that I would be safe to truly “let it all be” and be conscious in the “not knowing.” To embrace the fact that I do not know what anything is really for. Because, whether I welcomed the "not knowing" or not, learned to trust it or not, the truth was that anytime I thought I “knew” how something or someone “should be,” or how I wanted it to be, some form of pain or fear would result. And I don’t want to live in pain. I can have theories for sure, but I do not have the All-Knowing and All-Seeing Vision to Truly know...
I don’t know what anyone in this world should be doing “differently” or how anyone else in this world should be thinking or feeling. I don’t know, and neither does anyone else know what anyone else should be doing “differently” or how anyone else in this world should be thinking or feeling. Or, I don’t know, maybe they do know... But I don’t...
I don’t know if what I believe or do is right or wrong or neither. Or, maybe I do?
I don’t know if what anyone else believes or does is right or wrong or neither. Or, maybe they do?
I don’t know if the way I am “handling” this pandemic is right or wrong or neither. Or, maybe I do?
I don’t know if the way anyone else is “handling” this pandemic is right or wrong or neither. Or maybe they do?
I (think I) know that this pandemic is helping me see clearly how little we truly know. It is helping me learn how to live in real peace. It is helping me see that no one knows what is “best or worst” for anyone else, though we might think we do. And that every one of us is doing the best we can do with what we (think we) know. And that as we spend more time healing our own minds of thinking we know what anyone else should be doing, we will be bringing peace to ourselves and the world. Just perhaps…
But either way, as one who once thought I “knew” a way of real pace in this world, I am becoming more at peace in the unknowing.
And who knows, maybe all of this “not-knowing” will help us have more compassion and love for ourselves and for everyone who we have thought “should be doing” something different than they are... Maybe we will have more understanding and forgiveness for ourselves and anyone we have ever blamed for anything. Maybe we will come to feel peace and understanding where we once felt fear, guilt or judgment... Maybe we will begin to choose peace instead of pain, and love instead of fear...
I don’t know... just a thought... But I do know how much love I am feeling for everyone in this world, and all of those who have passed beyond the limits of this world, back to the “All-Knowing and All-Loving” limitless Source that can’t be “named...” (Or maybe it can be... 🙏🌟🕊)